Archive: September 2015

Citizens have started pushing back against Flock Safety, a company best known for its AI-powered Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs). Now they’ve got another company they can add to their enemies list. According to a report from 404 Media, a company called BusPatrol has installed cameras on school buses across the country and is planning to let law enforcement use them to scan license plates. It’s likely that the “letting law enforcement use them” part

This map reflects not the whole world, but what I gave the AI to check for comparison with California and b-Soviet Union. Again, links to full reports from Claude and Codex. If you want to correct the AI with data about your university, just put in the comments what to feed the AI for the next version of the report.

I don’t know what the world record is for killing bad AI features quickly, but this has to be a competitor. On Tuesday, July 7, Meta released an AI photo generation feature that pulled face data from any public Instagram account by default. It made it to Friday—a little over three days in operation by my count. The model tied to the feature, Muse Image, is still available. Muse Image is the first Image Generator released by Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, a

Like almost everything else these days, AI has made its way into the world of memes and seemingly not for the better. AI has already been used to animate classic memes, often with terrifying results. It has also given birth to the yellow-tinted, cringey subgenre of Studio Ghibli-style memes that Elon Musk and the rest of Silicon Valley seem to love. Now, an AI company is facing a lawsuit that could have major implications over who gets to profit from the i

An artist rendering of two water droplets playing a game of tic-tac-toe. Credit: EllaMaru Studio for LLNL Artificial intelligence and high-performance computing are driving up the demand for massive sources of energy. But neuromorphic computing, which aims to mimic the structure and function of the human brain, could present a new paradigm for energy-efficient computing. To this end, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) created a dr

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images After three years of unprecedented tech spending and nonstop hype, the demand for AI in the workplace seems to be drying up fast. Referencing data from a recent US Census Bureau survey, The Economist estimated that the percentage of Americans using AI to “produce goods and services” at large companies rang in at a modest 11 percent in October, the latest available survey date. It’s not ju

Each reaction using DropSynth can happen in a tiny test tube, like this one pictured in Plesa's lab. This has accelerated the speed, and reduced the cost to create massive gene libraries. Credit: Heather Swift Artificial intelligence relies on machine learning algorithms trained on massive datasets to make predictions—think of how ChatGPT learned language by gorging on the internet. In biology, however, scientists face a frustrating challenge—the high-qual

What’s particularly clever is how the system handles both triangular and quadrilateral faces. If you’ve ever tried to move 3D assets between different software packages, you’ll know why this matters. Different engines and tools have their preferences, and compatibility issues have historically been a nightmare for studios trying to streamline their workflows.According to technical documentation, the system utilises an autoregressive mesh generation framewo

Getting it right, like a human would shouldSo, how does Tencent’s AI benchmark work? First, an AI is given a creative task from a catalogue of over 1,800 challenges, from building data visualisations and web apps to making interactive mini-games.Once the AI generates the code, ArtifactsBench gets to work. It automatically builds and runs the code in a safe and sandboxed environment.To see how the application behaves, it captures a series of screenshots ove

Getty / Futurism The Barbra Streisand effect was in full swing after tech giant Microsoft attempted to clamp down on the word “Microslop” on a Discord channel dedicated to its AI chatbot Copilot over the weekend. The onslaught of mockery — characterized by a company spokesperson blaming the Microslop dustup on “spammers attempting to disrupt and overwhelm the space with harmful content not related to Copilot” — was too much, forcing Microsoft to shut down

Getty / Futurism Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei picked a major fight with the Department of Defense last month, asserting that his company’s AI models couldn’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans or direct autonomous weapons systems. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth and president Donald Trump lambasted Amodei for dictating what they could or couldn’t do with the company’s tech. They quickly announced that the company would be labeled a supply chain risk “

The new strategies could help CoreWeave finance its growth more efficiently while squeezing more cash from existing infrastructure. But these bets only hold if today’s demand and pricing power continue. CoreWeave reported $3.66 billion in revenue, up 168% from the year prior, but it also posted a $709 million net loss and $846 million in quarterly interest expense. “We will not use the unsecured debt market to fund our business at current yields, nor do we

AI-powered underwater robots equipped with lasers are being widely used in Norwegian salmon farms to detect and eliminate parasites attached to the fish. According to technology media Tom's Hardware, the number of operational underwater robots has exceeded 3,500. 3,500 laser-armed AI submarine robots patrol Norwegian salmon farms, killing sea lice and protecting 112 million fish — parasites get zapped by high-tech alternative to harsh chemical baths | Tom'

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In a new study, researchers claim to provide the first causal evidence that leaning on AI to assist with “reasoning-intensive” cognitive labor — mental tasks ranging from writing to studying to coding to simply brainstorming new ideas — can rapidly impair users’ intellectual ability and willingness to persist despite difficulty. “We find that AI assistance improves immediate performance,

Humans have a long track record of being humbled by AI. Chess was celebrated once upon a time as a uniquely human activity, a game far too complex for any machine to master. The 1997 defeat of Garry Kasparov by IBM’s Deep Blue forever dispelled us of that idea. Less than twenty years later, DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol in Go, an ancient game many orders of magnitude more complicated than chess. But surely, people continued to think, computers will nev

Published on May 26, 2026 at 15:41 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Amazon Alexa+ is now available in France. Here is the list of devices that will be compatible with Amazon's AI. Some older devices will not be able to integrate it. Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max View the technical sheet Amazon has finally launched Alexa+ in France. The AI assistant will be included in all Amazon Prime subscriptions in the coming weeks. Users without Prime will have to pay 22.99 euros per