Archive: October 2015

Proponents of generative AI say the tech has greatly lowered the barriers of entry in the art world, allowing practically anybody with internet access to dream up competently-executed landscapes, portraits, sketches and comics — all without any talent whatsoever. Critics say it’s the lowest common denominator of human expression, outsourcing to bloated algorithms that feasted on copyrighted materials while exploiting human artists who have yet to be fairly

close notice This article is also available in English. It was translated with technical assistance and editorially reviewed before publication. Don’t show this again. Chinese AI companies are reportedly trying to intensify their efforts to secure computing capacity outside of China. This has been a way to circumvent U.S. AI chip export controls. The efforts are likely driven by concerns that the scandal involving Jensen Huang has sparked debates about a s

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images OpenAI is gearing up for a potential IPO later this year at a staggering valuation of up to $1 trillion — a meteoric rise from a mere $29 billion in January 2023, months after launching ChatGPT. Just under three and a half years after its watershed moment, OpenAI seems almost unrecognizable. This year, in particular, has been a rude awakening for the Sam Altman-led company, with a string of bad news and controversies raising so

Dean Purcell/New Zealand Herald via Getty Images/Futurism As it turns out, all it takes to turn a cash-bleeding company into the New York Stock Exchange’s latest obsession are three magic words: “pivot to AI.” In a baffling announcement today, struggling tech bro shoe company Allbirds said that it was closing a $50 million deal that “will enable the Company to pivot its business to AI compute infrastructure” — under the new name, “NewBird AI,” of course. P

The tradition of tech CEOs bending the knee to Donald Trump continues, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang both taking turns with the shameless flattery. Per MS Now, Trump “met privately… backstage” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Republican midterm convention, at Altman’s request, last Thursday. MS Now’s only other insight into the conversation was that it concerned the growing power of AI—not exactly a shocker—and that it preceded Al

Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Across the United States, the fight over data center construction has largely pitted stamp-happy municipal governments against their own residents. As these battles multiply, local officials are increasingly pressured to approve projects their constituents oppose, while more and more voters take their struggles to the ballot box. Residents in Saline Township, Michigan, however, thought they had avoided t

Look, this is a free country, and there’s no law that says you have to keep suing Apple for alleged antitrust after you start. But after X Corp. and SpaceXAI withdrew such a suit earlier this week, the judge in the case simply needs to know why. U.S. District Court Judge Mark Pittman of the Fort Worth Division, issued a brief order on September 15: The plaintiffs, who are also suing OpenAI, litigation that’s still apparently active, must “deliver to the Co

TAG224@@Key feature: Explainable AI. The trader sees not just “BUY,” but why the model decided that way. This reduces mistrust and makes it possible to quickly verify the context.TAG230@@6. The problem of mixed signals (and why we did not resort to a quick fix)During testing, we noticed that VKCO received a BUY signal (64%), even though its news was neutral (market_pressure=0). The model had simply learned that the market rises 55% of the time.We considere

@mrmrmr(MoriMori)【Even Fifth Graders Can Understand】What Is Bag of Words?G TestAIMachine Learningbagofwords0Posted at 2026-11-11 What Is Bag of Words?【Explanation for Children】 Bag of Words is a method of treating text as a “set of words.” For example, the sentence “The dog is cute” is: “dog”: once “is”: once “cute”: once By simply counting them this way, word order does not matter. Because it is easy to understand, it is used for basic text analysis. 🔗 Re

Architecture of federated carbon intelligence. Credit: MRS Energy & Sustainability (2025). DOI: 10.1557/s43581-025-00146-1 As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful and widespread, so does the environmental cost of running it. Behind every chatbot, image generator, and television streaming recommendation are massive banks of millions of computers housed in an increasing number of data centers that consume staggering amounts of electricity and water

Illustration by Futurism. Source: @ziwenxu_ via X Are you physically incapable of waiting any longer for Grand Theft Auto VI, which has been in development for over a decade? Worse yet, are you someone who doesn’t own a console, meaning you’ll probably have to wait at least another year before the double-dippers at Rockstar decide to release it on PC? Well, don’t worry. Some AI bro is trying to vibe code their own version of the much-hyped GTA sequel befor

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A dystopian future where advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems replace human decision-making has long been a trope of science fiction. The malevolent computer HAL, which takes control of the spaceship in Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is a chilling example. But rather than being fearful of automation, a more useful response is to consider what types of repetitive human tasks could be safely offloade

Meta / Tag Hartman-Simkins for Futurism Last month, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta became embroiled in a major controversy after Wired found that it had discreetly included facial recognition tech in the software of its lineup of popular smart glasses. The camera-equipped spectacles had already become a privacy lightning rod, with users secretly recording strangers, often without their consent — earning the spectacles the pejorative nickname of “pervert glasses.”

Everything about China see more Everything about United States see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more China demanded that the United States lift the ban on DeepSeek on civilian federal agencies' systems. Beijing says the measure harms Chinese companies and disregards understandings reached between the leaders of the two countries.The demand comes after an order from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) prompted by data securit

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock As dozens of cities across the US are forced to scrap their plans to build power-hungry data centers, some civic leaders are no longer asking. According to new reporting by Fortune, the state of Georgia’s for-profit utility company, Georgia Power, is looking to demolish and pave over some 30 homes — and 330 parcels of land — that currently block the route of a 1,000 mile transmission line

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Bay Area laboratories are set to play a central role in the Genesis Mission, a multibillion-dollar effort by the Trump administration to accelerate the nation's artificial intelligence push in the face of technological advances in China. The involvement of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the SLAC National Accelerator Lab in Menlo Park could help ensure the region's positio

The US Copyright Office issued AI guidance this week that declared no laws need to be clarified when it comes to protecting authorship rights of humans producing AI-assisted works. “Questions of copyrightability and AI can be resolved pursuant to existing law, without the need for legislative change,” the Copyright Office said. More than 10,000 commenters weighed in on the guidance, with some hoping to convince the Copyright Office to guarantee more protec

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images In May, Meta laid off roughly ten percent of its global workforce, affecting almost 8,000 people. The vast culling came amidst repeated promises of an AI-led technological revolution that would make human labor a thing of the past. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in particular, was clearly infatuated by the idea. As Reuters reports, Meta execs developed a radical plan under his leadership, codenamed Project Organization Transformation,