GM’s Cruise Investigated Over Reported Pedestrian Injuries
General Motors’ autonomous vehicle company Cruise can’t shake the safety scrutiny over its driverless robotaxis. Now the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is digging into whether...
View ArticleYouTube Wants to Use AI to Let You Mimic Your Favourite Musician
As AI-generated songs run rampant across the internet, YouTube looks to get in front of it by legally licensing out artist voices. The platform developed a tool powered by artificial intelligence that...
View ArticleCalifornia DMV Suspends Cruise Robotaxis Over Safety Concerns
The California DMV suspended GM-owned Cruise driverless taxis from roadways on Tuesday. This comes weeks after a hit-and-run incident in San Francisco. Cruise’s robotaxi suspension is effective...
View ArticleArtists Can Fight Back Against AI by Killing Art Generators From the Inside
How can artists hope to fight back against the whims of tech companies wanting to use their work to train AI? One group of researchers has a novel idea: slip a subtle poison into the art itself to kill...
View ArticleGoogle, Microsoft Offer Measly $10 Million to Protect the World from AI
A few of the biggest companies pushing AI, including the legacy Silicon Valley giants Google and Microsoft alongside new blood OpenAI and Anthropic, are coming together to push their own industry body...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun
Google users can now make plans through a new Maps update that will generate events and activities by typing “things to do” into the search bar. Activities like art exhibitions or lists providing...
View ArticleGoogle, Amazon Invest Billions Into ChatGPT Competitor
Google will invest up to $US2 billion in Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI, ramping up the race between artificial intelligence companies, originally reported by The Wall Street Journal Friday. Amazon...
View ArticleAmerica Got Its First AI Executive Order. Here’s What You Need to Know
The Biden Administration is moving forward with a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence executive order aimed at creating new “consensus industry standards” for developing safe and trustworthy and...
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Instagram Might Be Building a Customisable AI ‘Friend’ to Fill the Empty Feed...
Nothing gives best friend energy quite like silicon and some 1’s and 0’s. Fresh off the heels of Meta’s dystopian AI influencers modelled after real celebrities, the social networking platform...
View ArticleEverything We Know About Humane’s Bewildering New AI Pin
For years, tech companies have been on a mission to create a wearable that will “kill”—or replace—the smartphone. The reasons for this are manifold but, in general, the idea has been to usher in the...
View ArticlePhysicists Simulate Time Travel Using Quantum Entanglement
The quantum world operates by different rules than the classical one we buzz around in, allowing the fantastical to the bizarrely normal. Now, a team of physicists has used quantum entanglement to...
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Here Are the Top AI Stories You Missed Last Week
If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don’t forget...
View Article‘I’d Have Told Them to F*ck Off’: Succession Star Brian Cox Says AI Is a...
Succession star Brian Cox has joined the parade of actors fighting against artificial intelligence, calling it a “human rights issue.” Cox, who’s known for playing Logan Roy in the series, equated...
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These AI Companies Want to Bring You Back From the Dead
Fantasies of immortality and extended life preservation are likely as old as humanity itself, but new advances in robotics and advanced artificial intelligence models are inching those transhumanist...
View ArticleCruise Robotaxis Require Remote Human Assistance Every 4 to 5 Miles
Things just keep getting worse for Cruise, the troubled robotaxi company that once dreamed of being a leader in the autonomous driving industry. Only a month after a violent collision forced the...
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Google Promises Its Christmas Game Doesn’t Use Kids to Train AI
Google “how many days until Christmas” on a computer, and you’ll find a little animated present that transports you to the company’s Santa Tracker hub, a winter wonderland full of activities and...
View ArticleSamsung’s ChatGPT Rival Could Come to the Galaxy S24
Samsung aims to take a stab directly at the heart of Google’s big AI ambitions with its upcoming phones. The next range of Samsung mobile devices coming next year will be bursting at the seams with...
View ArticleMicrosoft Calls on Oracle for Backup in AI Fray
It takes a whole lot of power and data to both train and run the AI models that have big tech so enamoured. To support its AI ambitions on Bing Search, Microsoft leaped into the welcoming arms of cloud...
View ArticleGoogle Gives ChatGPT Competitor a Boost
Google’s AI ecosystem continues to grow as the company expands its partnership with Anthropic, which will now run on Google Cloud’s fastest AI-accelerating chips. This comes on the same day Google...
View ArticleThe Humane AI Pin Gets Its Big Reveal But We Still Have a Lot of Questions
After months of hype and wild speculation, the self-proclaimed “smart phone killer” is here. Humane, a startup founded by two former Apple employees, has launched its hotly anticipated AI pin, a small,...
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Here Are the Top AI Stories You Missed Last Week
If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Humane drops its new...
View ArticleYouTube Cracks Down on Future ‘AI Drakes’ With Updated Policies
YouTube released new policy updates on Tuesday to combat AI-generated content that resembles the voice and style of music artists. Earlier this year, “Heart on My Sleeve,” a song that sounds like a...
View ArticleYouTube Now Sells the AI Soul of Your Favourite Musician
YouTube is licensing out the voices and styles of popular artists with its first set of AI music experiments, announced Google in a blog post Thursday. Dream Track will allow creators to make short,...
View ArticleGoogle Shopping Will Hallucinate AI Products and Then Find You Something Real...
Here’s an AI tool you probably hadn’t considered. Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) is getting a slew of updates this December, including a feature that lets you dream up a product...
View ArticleCruise CEO Kyle Vogt Resigns After Vehicles Deemed Public Safety Hazard
The co-founder of Cruise, Kyle Vogt, resigned from his duties as CEO, CTO, and President on Sunday night, following a month of turbulence for General Motors’ self-driving car subsidiary. Vogt exits the...
View ArticleAmazon’s ‘Q’ Is Less Conspiracy, More Corporate AI Chatbot
Amazon is throwing its e-commerce bulk into the AI game like an enormous capybara stampeding into the outside lane of the ongoing AI rat race. The company finally shared details of its new AI chatbot...
View ArticleAmazon’s New AI Image Generator Creates an ‘Invisible Watermark’ on Every...
How hard is it to check whether an image is an AI deepfake or not? Well, Amazon claims it has some sort of answer with its own watermarking system for Titan, the new AI art generator it announced...
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AI Turned These Memes Into Videos and It’s the Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen
Last week, Stability AI announced a new tool called Stable Video Diffusion, a model that turns images into AI-generated videos. It was only a matter of minutes before people jumped on it and started...
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12 of the Weirdest X-Plane Designs
X-planes are a class of experimental aircraft designed to test and demonstrate new innovations in flight—some were created for NASA, others for DARPA or the U.S. military. The first X-plane, X-1, was...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s AI Narration App Expands to Android for Users Who Are Blind
Microsoft launched the Seeing AI app on Android devices Monday, expanding the free app that narrates the world to millions more blind and low-vision users. Seeing AI is now available for free in 18...
View ArticleGoogle’s Gemini Turns Pixel 8 Pro Into a True AI Phone
If you’re the proud owner of a Google Pixel 8 Pro—or are soon to be one this holiday season—you’re about to be the latest guinea pig for the company’s big AI experiment. Google’s flagship Android phone...
View ArticleClimate Groups to Biden: AI Will Worsen Climate Change Crisis
An open letter to the White House from 17 major climate change and anti-disinformation groups says President Joe Biden and his administration have largely ignored the toll AI is already taking on a...
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Google Definitely Had Its ‘Hands-On’ That Gemini AI Demo
Google released Gemini, its newest generative AI chatbot that promises to be better than ChatGPT, alongside a splashy demo video showcasing its capabilities. A Google developer blog post reveals that...
View ArticleThe Secret Behind AI Drive-Thrus? It’s Humans Doing the Work.
Presto, the self-acclaimed “leader in drive-thru voice automation” wants artificial intelligence to take your order. The drive-thru AI company works with Carls Jr, Chili’s, and Del Taco, and it...
View ArticleMicrosoft Forms Alliance to Help Union Workers Stop Worrying and Learn to...
Microsoft announced an alliance with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) to ensure that artificial intelligence serves the interests of workers,...
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Meta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Now Have Thoughts About Your Pants
Meta’s long-promised AI-enabled vision features for the company’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses are finally incoming, allowing the onboard AI to see, hear, and interpret its environment through the glasses’ 12...
View ArticleIt Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week, seeks...
View ArticleMagic: The Gathering Formally Bans the Use of Generative AI in ‘Final’ Products
An error in judgement earlier this year—when a D&D artist confirmed they had used generative AI programs to finish several pieces of art included in the sourcebook Glory of the Giants—saw Wizards...
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How to Check If Something Online Was Written by AI
Generative artificial intelligence is everywhere you look these days, including on the web: advanced predictive text bots such as ChatGPT can now spew out endless reams of text on every topic...
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AI’s World-Ending Capabilities Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
It’s become popular amongst the denizens of Silicon Valley to claim that AI could end the world as we know it. However, this week provided more than a few examples of why that isn’t true. AI isn’t...
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