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In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade – The New York Times
If 2023 was the tech industrys year of the A.I. chatbot, 2024 is turning out to be the year of A.I
Pros and cons of artificial intelligence and online dating – The Orion
Pro By: Shane Aweeka You continue to try and reword the sentence. After nearly five minutes of making little headway, you capitulate and turn to ChatGPT. Its not cheating.
Growing concern that artificial intelligence could pose new cybersecurity threats – Scripps News
Whether you like the idea of Artificial Intelligence or not, it's already a part of your daily life. It helps you navigate around traffic jams, recommends products to buy, and powers our digital assistants
Artificial Intelligence Has Come for Our…Beauty Pageants? – Glamour
Hence the creation of the Miss AI pageant, in which AI-generated contestants will be judged on some of the classic aspects of pageantry and the the skill and implementation of AI tools used to create the contestants.
iOS 18 could be loaded with AI, as Apple reveals 8 new artificial intelligence models that run on-device – TechRadar
Apple has released a set of several new AI models that are designed to run locally on-device rather than in the cloud, possibly paving the way for an AI-powered iOS 18 in the not-too-distant future. The iPhone giant has been doubling down on AI in recent months, with a carefully split focus across cloud-based and on-device AI. We saw leaks earlier this week indicating that Apple plans to make its own AI server chips, so this reveal of new local large language models (LLMs) demonstrates that the company is committed to both breeds of AI software.
AI is catching up with humans at a ‘shocking’ rate – The Hankyoreh
A child interacts with a service robot. (Andy Kelly/Unsplash) Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT have been shown to outperform humans in some basic tasks, including English comprehension, image categorization, and visual reasoning
Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I. – The New York Times
Meta projected on Wednesday that revenue for the current quarter would be lower than what Wall Street anticipated and said it would spend billions of dollars more on its artificial intelligence efforts, even as it reported robust revenue and profits for the first three months of the year. Revenue for the company, which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, was $36.5 billion in the first quarter, up 27 percent from $28.6 billion a year earlier and slightly above Wall Street estimates of $36.1 billion, according to data compiled by FactSet.
Machine learning and experiment | symmetry magazine – Symmetry magazine
Every day in August of 2019, physicist Dimitrios Tanoglidis would walk to the Plein Air Caf next to the University of Chicago and order a cappuccino. After finding a table, he would spend the next several hours flipping through hundreds of thumbnail images of white smudges recorded by the Dark Energy Camera, a telescope that at the time had observed 300 million astronomical objects. For each white smudge, Tanoglidis would ask himself a simple yes-or-no question: Is this a galaxy
A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist – NPR
Dazhon Darien had allegedly used the Baltimore County Public Schools' network to access OpenAI tools and Microsoft Bing Chat before the viral audio file of Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert spread on social media. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption Dazhon Darien had allegedly used the Baltimore County Public Schools' network to access OpenAI tools and Microsoft Bing Chat before the viral audio file of Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert spread on social media. A Maryland high school athletic director is facing criminal charges after police say he used artificial intelligence to duplicate the voice of Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the community to believe Eiswert said racist and antisemitic things about teachers and students
Elon Musk’s xAI Close to Raising $6 Billion – PYMNTS.com
Elon Musks artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI is reportedly close to raising $6 billion from investors. The funding round would value xAI at $18 billion, Bloomberg reported Friday (April 26).