ChatGPT Has Investors Drooling—but Can It Bring Home the Bacon?
[ad_1] When ChatGPT—the ingenious, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged chatbot from OpenAI—was asked this week how much the company behind it is worth, its responses included: “It is likely that its worth is…
The Spawn of ChatGPT Will Try to Sell You Things
[ad_1] Browder of DoNotPay is not the only person who sees ChatGPT and the technology behind it as a way to automate persuasion. One doctor posted a video on Twitter showing…
ChatGPT’s Most Charming Trick Is Also Its Biggest Flaw
[ad_1] Like many other people over the past week, Bindu Reddy recently fell under the spell of ChatGPT, a free chatbot that can answer all manner of questions with stunning and…
Here’s Proof Hate Speech Is More Viral on Elon Musk’s Twitter
[ad_1] Elon Musk reactivated Donald Trump’s Twitter account last weekend, reversing a ban imposed in January 2021 after his posts were deemed to have incited violence at the US Capitol. Trump has…
This Copyright Lawsuit Could Shape the Future of Generative AI
[ad_1] The tech industry might be reeling from a wave of layoffs, a dramatic crypto-crash, and ongoing turmoil at Twitter, but despite those clouds some investors and entrepreneurs are already eyeing a new boom—built…
Amazon’s New Robot Sparrow Can Handle Most Items in the Everything Store
[ad_1] Amazon built an ecommerce empire by automating much of the work needed to move goods and pack orders in its warehouses. There is still plenty of work for humans…
Elon Musk Is Overloaded | WIRED
[ad_1] Neuralink, which works on brain implants for controlling a computer, was also founded in 2016. Musk has previously said he planned to have regulatory approval for the brain chips…
Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team
[ad_1] As more and more problems with AI have surfaced, including biases around race, gender, and age, many tech companies have installed “ethical AI” teams ostensibly dedicated to identifying and…
AI’s New Creative Streak Sparks a Silicon Valley Gold Rush
[ad_1] In the years since, a wave of investment from companies large and small has spread face recognition around the world, has installed always-listening virtual assistants into homes, and has…
US Chip Sanctions ‘Kneecap’ China’s Tech Industry
[ad_1] Baidu, the leading Chinese web search provider and a key player in cloud AI services and autonomous driving, also uses Nvidia chips extensively in its data centers. Last October…
Elon Musk’s Half-Baked Robot Is a Clunky First Step
[ad_1] Some robot experts watching saw a project that appeared to be quickly getting up to speed. “There’s nothing fundamentally groundbreaking, but they are doing cool stuff,” says Stefanie Tellex,…
Amazon Wants Its Home Robot, Astro, to Anticipate Your Every Need
[ad_1] The same approach to teaching Astro with gestures and words could in the future be extended to all kinds of furniture and objects in a home, Washington says. The…
The Joy and Dread of AI Image Generators Without Limits
[ad_1] Image generators like Stable Diffusion can create what look like real photographs or hand-crafted illustrations depicting just about anything a person can imagine. This is possible thanks to algorithms…
Algorithms Can Now Mimic Any Artist. Some Artists Hate It
[ad_1] Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag is known for haunting paintings that blend natural landscapes with the eerie futurism of giant robots, mysterious industrial machines, and alien creatures. Earlier this week,…
Google’s New Robot Learned to Take Orders by Scraping the Web
[ad_1] Late last week, Google research scientist Fei Xia sat in the center of a bright, open-plan kitchen and typed a command into a laptop connected to a one-armed, wheeled…
We Interviewed Meta’s New AI Chatbot About … Itself
[ad_1] Kuki can talk about everything from music to sports to politics and religion! And beyond that as well Would you like me to call you Kuki? Yes! Call me…
Wikipedia Articles Sway Some Legal Judgments
[ad_1] In 2005, the Irish Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman who sued a landowner for compensation in 1997 after she lost her footing while watching the sunset…
The CHIPS Act Passes Congress to Boost US Semiconductor Production
[ad_1] “There is a really deep interconnection between the chip industry and the US defense industry,” says Chris Miller, an assistant professor at Tufts University and the author of Chip…
The Chip Shortage is Easing—But Only For Some
[ad_1] But the turnaround is far from uniform. Everstream’s data shows that lead times for some advanced chips needed for medical devices, telecommunications, and cybersecurity systems is around 52 weeks,…