OpenAI tweaks ChatGPT to avoid dangerous AI information
In brief Plus: DeepMind beats humans at Stratego
AI + ML03 Dec 2022 | 19
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Google frees nifty ML image-compression model... but it's for JPEG-XL
Yep. The very same JPEG-XL that's just been axed from Chromium
AI + ML02 Dec 2022 | 34
Processing data... in space: AWS powers Earth observation satellite payload
Orbiting sat suite includes machine learning models, cloud-managed edge runtime
AI + ML30 Nov 2022 | 2
Google Health licenses its AI breast cancer screening tool to a medical biz
iCAD will have five years to bring a product to market
AI + ML29 Nov 2022 | 4
Japanese convenience store chain opens outlet staffed by avatars and robots
Like Clippy, but for snacks, booze, and cigarettes
AI + ML29 Nov 2022 | 55
US Justice Dept reportedly checking AI rent-pricing biz RealPage
Company accused of allowing landlords to collude and artificially inflate rental prices
AI + ML28 Nov 2022 | 5
Spooky entanglement revealed between quantum AI and the BBC
Opinion QC: Still not actually useful, but it's increasingly intriguing
AI + ML28 Nov 2022 | 34
AI giant Baidu shrugs off US chip export restrictions as having 'little impact'
Says sanctions could even accelerate China's drive for silicon self-sufficiency
AI + ML24 Nov 2022 | 9
India seeks global standards to stop AI harming humanity
Takes over presidency of global AI group, and uses G20 leadership to flex manufacturing muscle
AI + ML24 Nov 2022 | 3
Study suggests AI cruise control could kill traffic jams by cutting out the 'intuition' factor
The reason your morning drive sucks is because of you, the impulsive human behind the wheel
AI + ML23 Nov 2022 | 56
Meta's Cicero chatbot can probably beat you at Diplomacy
AI agent proves better than most people in classic game of trust and betrayal
AI + ML23 Nov 2022 | 13
Tesla reports two more fatal Autopilot accidents to the NHTSA
Not a great look for the electric car company as drivers urged to remain alert
AI + ML16 Nov 2022 | 53
Feed the AI fire with centralization
An efficient GPU compute management platform is critical to furthering AI experimentation, says Run:ai
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Intel says it can sort the living human beings from the deepfakes in real time
Claims to be able to spot imposters in live video feeds within milliseconds
AI + ML15 Nov 2022 | 11
Waymo turns its driverless cars into roving weather stations
Maybe now San Francisco will allow it to operate in the fog and rain?
AI + ML15 Nov 2022 | 9
Hey, GitHub, can you create an array compare function without breaking the GPL?
In brief Plus: Amazon debuts AI warehouse robot, Midjourney releases latest ML art generator
AI + ML12 Nov 2022 | 81
GitHub's Copilot flies into its first open source copyright lawsuit
Opinion It won't be the last
AI + ML11 Nov 2022 | 91
Mythic bet big on analog AI but has run out of cash
Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful'
AI + ML09 Nov 2022 | 10
With AI, you need to see the bigger hardware and software picture
Sensible use of CPUs and GPUs is the answer to scaling up accelerated compute, says Intel
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Chinese employers sought a million hard core AI techies in five years
Pay is middling, hours are long, but millions of jobs are out there
AI + ML08 Nov 2022 | 2
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Rackspace rocked by ‘security incident’ that has taken out hosted Exchange services
Updated Warns recovery could take several days and pledges better support after customer complaints
Google says Android runs better when covered in Rust
Banishing memory safety bugs cuts critical vulnerabilities
US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies
'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence'
AMD says transistor tech will keep Moore’s law alive for 6 to 8 years
'We're going to have lower power, but it's going to cost more' says chipmaker's CTO
OpenAI tweaks ChatGPT to avoid dangerous AI information
In brief Plus: DeepMind beats humans at Stratego
US chip group: $52b is not enough, we need an extra $30b in federal funding
We need more free money from the government say silicon salesfolks
Medibank prognosis gets worse after more stolen data leaked
Plus Australia launches an investigation into insurer's data privacy practices
FBI warns about Cuba, no, not that one — the ransomware gang
Critical infrastructure attacks ramping up
After lunar orbit trip NASA's Orion capsule is on its way back home
Heat shield will be put to the test for the first time, what could go wrong?
Twitter tries to lure brands back with spend-matching scheme
Spend $500k and we'll double your money, but please ignore the trolls
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Tired: Data scientists. Wired: Data artists
Asking really good questions about what data can describe matters more than collecting more info
AI + ML08 Nov 2022 | 28
OpenAI, Microsoft, GitHub hit with lawsuit over Copilot
In brief Plus: City of Edinburgh promises to scrap Chinese AI Hikvision cameras, and more
AI + ML07 Nov 2022 | 10
Watchdog urged to sniff out any collusion, deception in rent-setting algorithms
Things could get real for RealPage real fast
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
Machine learning research in acoustics could open up multimodal metaverse
Jury still out on whether any kind of metaverse is strictly necessary
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
A next-gen AI protein folder that could help science? Meta's good for something
Faster than the others, 600m structures now in a public DB
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 11
Self-driving truck startup TuSimple ousts CEO over ties to Chinese rival
Boss denies any wrongdoing as Feds reportedly stick a probe in, too
AI + ML01 Nov 2022 | 6
Bumble open sources AI code to automatically blur NSFW photos
In brief Plus: Why some manga and anime fans hate AI-generated art, and ex-Google boss funds AI students
AI + ML31 Oct 2022 | 26
Enterprises are rolling out more AI – to 'middling results'
Businesses that achieve full-scale deployment don't always get the outcomes they hoped for, says Deloitte
AI + ML31 Oct 2022 | 22
Privacy watchdog urges companies drop emotional analysis AI software
'They may not work yet, or indeed ever,' says ICO's deputy commissioner
AI + ML29 Oct 2022 | 15
Tesla reportedly faces criminal probe into self-driving hype
Plus: Robo-car upstart Argo AI shuts down after automakers pull plug on funding
AI + ML27 Oct 2022 | 84
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to sell AI-generated stock images using DALL-E
Getty Images is collaborating with generative AI startup BRIA
AI + ML26 Oct 2022 | 7
AI-driven creativity gives overpowered PCs something worthwhile to do, at last
Column Take your desktop rig out for a proper run, turning words into images, 3D models and videos – if it can
AI + ML26 Oct 2022 | 10
Human-replacing AI startups reach $1bn unicorn status
In brief Plus: Meta builds speech-to-speech system to translate Hokkien, Waymo expands to LA, and more
AI + ML23 Oct 2022 | 3
Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI
Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019
AI + ML21 Oct 2022 | 3
AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education
Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals
AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 27
How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm
Special report AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one
AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 75
NASA AI shows slashing sulfur in shipping fuel cut air pollution at sea
COVID-19 pandemic made a bit of a dent, too
AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 9
YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs
There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 111
Self-driving tech startup values crash 81% in 2 years
LiDAR companies lead the pack, with valuations plummeting up to 99% since IPO
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 24
Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke weapon sims
Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 6
Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art
In brief Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode
AI + ML16 Oct 2022 | 39
Just $10 to create an AI chatbot of a dead loved one
Feature How software can help some grieve, perturb others
AI + ML15 Oct 2022 | 60
AI recruitment software is 'automated pseudoscience', Cambridge study finds
HR diversity claims via software are rot, according to boffins
AI + ML13 Oct 2022 | 112
Nvidia not cutting it? Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived
GCN Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPUs and Mount Evans SmartNICs pop their heads above ground, too
AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 3
Samsung's Ukraine headquarters damaged by Russian missile strike
R&D Center focuses on autonomous AI, otherwise known as On-Device AI
AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 22
People still seem to think their fancy cars are fully self-driving
This is despite a history of assistive software being involved in crashes
AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 123
Lab explores dystopian future of AI helping cops catch criminals
In brief Plus: US AI Bill of Rights, and a new framework to run models on AMD and Nvidia GPUs more flexibly
AI + ML08 Oct 2022 | 11
AI co-programmers perhaps won't spawn as many bugs as feared
They can't be any worse than some human developers
AI + ML07 Oct 2022 | 17
Amazon halts work on ‘Scout’ delivery-bot that delivered parcels no faster than humans
Meanwhile in China, Alibaba runs 500 delivery-bots and they’ve delivered 10 million items to Easy Street
AI + ML07 Oct 2022 | 62
DeepMind uses matrix math to automate discovery of better matrix math techniques
How Meta, er, meta
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 15
Nuh-uh, Meta, we can do text-to-video AI, too, says Google
Brace yourself for a weird future where everything is imagined by magic sand we taught how to think
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 5
AI eye-scanner can tell whether you'll croak it from a heart attack
If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models?
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 19
Someone's at last helping AI models understand those with speech disabilities
Welsh, on the other hand, there's no tech that can help with that
AI + ML04 Oct 2022 | 16
Tesla has a lot of work to do on its Optimus robot
Optimus Sub-Prime? For something meant to revolutionize production lines, reveal wasn't quite there yet
AI + ML03 Oct 2022 | 109
Text-to-image models are so last month, text-to-video is here
In brief Plus: Did Bruce Willis sell his image rights to AI biz creating deepfakes? And more
AI + ML01 Oct 2022 | 17
Europe just might make it easier for people to sue for damage caused by AI tech
Imagine the lawyer infomercials – Did a computer hurt you? Call (30) 555 1234...
AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 17
OpenAI opens doors to DALL-E after the horse has bolted to Midjourney and others
Ironic that an ML lab with so many accelerators is such a slowpoke
AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 7
Uncle Sam to unmask anonymous writers using AI
Along with revealing authors, IARPA also wants bot to disguise scribes
AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 50
Save the whales – with, uh, artificial intelligence?
When a Klingon Bird-of-Prey just won't cut it
AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 10
Ford buys into Middle Kingdom market with China EV subsidiary
As Intel expands its collaboration with Chinese car-maker Geely
AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 4
City isn't keen on 5,000 erratic, traffic-jam-causing GM robo-cars on its streets
Analysis 'Cruise AV automated driving system is still under development' is putting it politely after vehicles block roads
AI + ML27 Sep 2022 | 65
AI won't take coders' jobs. Humans still rule for now
In brief Plus: ML career help, OpenAI releases free speech-recognition model, and more news
AI + ML26 Sep 2022 | 23
Darth Vader voice actor James Earl Jones allows AI to take over the role
Ukrainian outfit Respeecher's GAN-based neural audio enhancer embraces The Dark Side
AI + ML26 Sep 2022 | 41
SiFive RISC-V cores picked for Google AI compute nodes
Cor, that's a shot in the arm for this upstart CPU ISA
AI + ML23 Sep 2022 | 13
The secret to Sparrow, DeepMind's latest Q&A chatbot: Human feedback
Thanks for the advice
AI + ML23 Sep 2022 | 20
Getty bans AI-generated art due to copyright concerns
You boffins need to figure out who owns what before someone gets sued
AI + ML21 Sep 2022 | 8
Now's your chance, AI, to do good. Protect endangered eagles from wind turbines
(But wot about us vultures, sniff)
AI + ML21 Sep 2022 | 89
Nvidia sets out timeline for H100 GPUs – now for HGX, next year for DGX
GTC It's called Hopper because most of the chips announced today skipped it
AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 1
SETI seeks amateur astronomers to find hot Jupiter-like exoplanets
Much better use of time than 'hot singles in your area'
AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 2
Creatives up in arms over claim that AI is killing human art
In brief Plus: Cruise expanding self-driving robotaxi operations, and more
AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 26
Google says some AI call center agents took the morning off
Updated Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said …
AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 8
Researchers build ML models to forecast food shortages
Secondary data in weather, macro-economics to help governments and orgs figure out where to focus their aid
AI + ML16 Sep 2022 | 3
Upstart claims its chips beat Nvidia's A100 on AI oomph
That's nice, but what about Nv's H100?
AI + ML15 Sep 2022 | 2
Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race
USA told to sort itself out in 5G, AI, and microelectronics by 2025 – or things could get mighty grim
AI + ML14 Sep 2022 | 39
US throws millions at AI to diagnose diseases by the sound of your voice
Speech can be impacted by cancer, Parkinson's, depression, and more
AI + ML13 Sep 2022 | 7
Academic publishers turn to AI software to catch bad scientists doctoring data
Analysis High level of image duplication in a single paper is a sign of cheating
AI + ML12 Sep 2022 | 17
Brain-inspired chips promise ultra-efficient AI, so why aren’t they everywhere?
Interview It's not because our AI overlords aren't keen on the idea
AI + ML12 Sep 2022 | 25
Draft EU AI Act regulations could have a chilling effect on open source software
In brief Plus: New MLPerf inference results, and artists finds terrifying AI-generated face haunting images
AI + ML11 Sep 2022 | 38
Hype versus reality: What you can't do with DeepMind's AlphaFold in drug discovery
Analysis Protein prediction it can do, the next steps not so much – not that it was trained for this
AI + ML08 Sep 2022 | 7
Man wins competition with AI-generated artwork – and some people aren't happy
In brief Plus: Use machine learning to understand your cat ... possibly
AI + ML03 Sep 2022 | 63
One man's battle to get patent rights for AI inventors in America may be over
Analysis Stephen Thaler is fighting the law, and the law is winning
AI + ML01 Sep 2022 | 46
Goodbye, humans: Call centers 'could save $80b' switching to AI
You'll just have to learn to code instead – oh wait, computers can do that, too
AI + ML01 Sep 2022 | 77
Googler says she was forced out after opposing $1.2bn cloud contract with Israel
Fears of human-rights abuses overshadow Project Nimbus
AI + ML30 Aug 2022 | 166
Tesla faces Autopilot lawsuit alleging phantom braking
Automaker accused of hiding malfunctioning tech from drivers
AI + ML30 Aug 2022 | 77
AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m
Aerial photo scanning tool to be expanded to catch out other unreported home improvements
AI + ML30 Aug 2022 | 124
Source: IBM disguised Watson Health layoffs as a 'redeployment initiative'
Exclusive Funnily enough, most of those hit were aged over 40, it is claimed
AI + ML29 Aug 2022 | 58
Record label drops AI rapper after backlash over stereotypes
In brief Plus: Changing call center workers' voices, why we need to do more to get women in ML, and more
AI + ML28 Aug 2022 | 84
How archaeologists can use AI to date our ancestors
Human remains from millennia ago analyzed by the machines their descendants built
AI + ML25 Aug 2022 | 24
Tesla wants to take machine learning silicon to the Dojo
Just how bad does existing AI hardware have to be to start from scratch?
AI + ML24 Aug 2022 | 10
Binance exec says scammers made a 'deep fake hologram' of him to fool victims
That wasn't actually me on a Zoom call, it was a malicious AI clone built from TV interviews, claims PR
AI + ML23 Aug 2022 | 15
US Army drone crashes hours ahead of breaking flight duration record
Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr nosedives after more than 64 days aloft
AI + ML23 Aug 2022 | 52
Musk tries to sell Tesla's Optimus robot butler to China
In brief Plus: How US Homeland Security uses AI – and text-to-image systems deployed in social media
AI + ML21 Aug 2022 | 37
GitHub Copilot may be perfect for cheating CompSci programming exercises
Shakeup in teaching looms as code-completion tool lets students 'bring an Uzi to a knife fight'
AI + ML19 Aug 2022 | 58
AI chip adds artificial neurons to resistive RAM for use in wearables, drones
'Even on a small coin battery, it could run for more than 10 years' claims researcher
AI + ML18 Aug 2022 | 12
Google teaches robots to serve humans – with large language models the key
Video Is this it? The robo-butler dream is coming true?
AI + ML18 Aug 2022 | 24
UK hospitals lose millions after AI startup valuation collapses
Updated Two trusts saw nearly $18 million go up in smoke when Sensyne Health was delisted from AIM
AI + ML17 Aug 2022 | 71
DARPA seeks a few good AI coders to help America find its own rare minerals
There's some pocket change in it for you, if you can crack this nut
AI + ML17 Aug 2022 | 12
AI could save future firefighters from deadly flashover explosions
NIST-led engineers are working on building a real-time alert system
AI + ML14 Aug 2022 | 7
Your AI-generated digital artwork may not be protected by US copyright
Do we want to recognise machines as authors?
AI + ML14 Aug 2022 | 52
Meta's AI internet chatbot demo quickly starts spewing fake news and racist remarks
In brief Plus: How Google is using language models to improve search, and watch Heinz's AI ketchup advert
AI + ML14 Aug 2022 | 50
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