There’s been something of a change in the world of motorsport over the past few years. It has to do with where the money comes from. In the old days, it was tobacco, and to a lesser extent booze. Today such things are mostly banned, and when you look at a racecar covered in sponsor […]
AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport Read Post »
Every piece of AI content from Google’s Gemini models has a hidden SynthID label, which makes it very difficult to pass the content off as authentic. SynthID has also gotten buy-in from other major AI players, but actually checking for those invisible watermarks has been a convoluted process. It’s going to be a little easier
Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally Read Post »
As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China. The new 1 trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4—nicknamed Le Chonk—can be used and customized by anyone. It’s currently available in
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Howdy, it’s hump day and we’re rolling along. Today we’ve got an update on a very strange case involving a man whose image was resurrected from the dead via AI and made to appear in front of a judge to announced “forgiveness” of his murderer. 404 Media contributor Matthew Gault had a long conversation with
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Better learn about “brain privacy,” because it may soon go the way of the dodo. Researchers have developed an AI tool that can predict what you’re looking at by analyzing your brain scans — and then generate a strikingly accurate recreation of what you’re picturing. It’s barely an exaggeration to say that it’s a “mind-reading”
New AI Can Figure Out What You’re Thinking About From a Brain Scan Read Post »
Users reject site’s explanations after detailed instructions for writing response to post on popular forum was published Mumsnet has denied using AI to produce content after detailed instructions to help an AI model write one of its popular “am I being unreasonable” (AIBU) posts appeared on a Mumsnet message board. Users of the long-established forum,
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The triple release of The Social Reckoning, Musk and Artificial is less a clear political stance, more like movie studio opportunism Hollywood is sending a clear message: it’s a friend of tech. Netflix is no longer a lone disruptor: historic studio MGM is now the property of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos; David Ellison’s takeover of Paramount
Will the Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman movies make a dent on tech giant evangelism? Read Post »
Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Kore.ai Inc. today launched Autoloop, an optimization engine for the AI agents that customers build on its Kore.ai Agent Platform. Businesses set the targets, and Autoloop keeps adjusting the agents to hit them automatically, including after they’re deployed. Autoloop goes after the way most enterprises maintain agents today, fixing failures
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Housing construction is at its strongest level since 2016, but it’s AI that is sucking up resources for builders The latest series of data on housing and building activity has been released, showing residential building is growing strongly but also that the datacentre boom is massive and ongoing. As political parties look to keep housing
There are a growing list of reasons not to want to live near an AI data center. Some of them emit constant screeching noises that are impossible to drown out. Others rely on massive diesel generators that spew smog into the community and greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere. If you get particularly unlucky, your electricity
