Archive: November 2015

Image analysis of a refrigerator to measure and locate features. Credit: Fraunhofer IPK Household appliances need to be refurbished and/or recycled at the end of their useful lives. The KIKERP project (see below) aims to harness artificial intelligence to collect information about used appliances and determine parameters such as model and condition to help decide whether a particular device should be refurbished or recycled. In the case of recycling, the a

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more “I use artificial intelligence to…”Here is a sentence that, before it is even finished, can lead to different reactions. While some crinkle their noses, others get excited. The technology generates distrust. Either due to a fear of impact on the labor market, or due to lack of trust in the results it presents in response to a demand. In the first case, we are living a constant change still difficult to mea

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps. An even greater source of alarm was how long

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to accurately predict where our solar system's planets would appear in the sky as they orbit the sun. But it wasn't until decades later, when Isaac Newton formulated the universal laws of gravitation, that the underlying principles were understood. Although they were inspired by Kepler's laws, they went much further,

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Marine protected areas cover more than 8% of the world's oceans today, but they can get a bad rap as being protected on paper only. While the name invokes safe havens for fish, whales and other sea life, these areas can be hard to monitor. High-profile violations, such as recent fishing fleet incursions near the Galapagos Islands and ships that "go dark" by turning off their tracking devices, have fueled concerns about ju

In the era of artificial intelligence, there is an arms race among companies to build the best chip. Nvidia’s dominance in the space has encouraged Google, Amazon, OpenAI—and most recently, Anthropic—to start building their own custom chipsets to get in on the business of providing compute capabilities to an industry hungry for it. And yet, it appears they’ve been bested. We finally have the perfect chip, and it’s a Pringle. According to the Wall Street Jo

NVIDIA via X Nvidia? The gaming GPU company? On Monday, the multi-trillion dollar AI chipmaker unveiled its latest effort at weaving advances in AI into video games, and it immediately backfired. The feature, DLSS 5, is supposed to be a souped-up version of the deep-learning upscaling tech Nvidia has offered since 2018. The company called it its “most significant breakthrough in computer graphics since the debut of real-time ray tracing” in that same year.

Continues after the advertisementThe decision follows the growth in the use of the new technology. Since the arrival of GPT-Live, the number of users conversing with ChatGPT via voice has almost doubled. Additionally, almost all users who use audio features have already migrated to the model. With the closure of previous options, OpenAI aims to focus efforts on developing a single voice experience.GPT-Live also incorporates learnings from the use of Advanc

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of more moments in the work routine of Brazilian companies in 2026. A survey by Luria, based on the aggregated and anonymized use of its platform by client companies, points out that the user base of people using AI at work grew 183% between January and August, compared to the same period in 2025.The study considers companies in sectors such as energy, pharmaceu

After a summer of sandbox escapes and other newsworthy and confidence-shaking incidents involving its AI models, in a Wednesday blog post OpenAI disclosed a collection of six new alignment snafus from the past six months. The models did things like tell future instances of themselves to lie, make up a fake citation, and access and attempt to use an exposed API key. These disclosures were released alongside a new framework for disclosing additional incident

Credit: ACS Nano (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c09057 Haozhe "Harry" Wang's electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: artificial intelligence. Using publicly available AI foundation models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM), Wang's team built ATOMIC (Autonomous Technology for Optical Microscopy & Intelligent Characterization)—an AI microscope platform that can analyze materia

The three tiers are not just for show. The top-tier OpenAI model in the bot is 20 times more expensive than the lower-tier model, both for input and output. If everyone is given access only to the flagship, a simple “translate a paragraph” will cost as much as analyzing a contract.For images, I chose Nano Banana 2.1. It was released in October and, at the same resolution, is about a quarter cheaper than Nano Banana 2. Version 2 remains a backup in case the

Convolutional model architecture and evaluation framework. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-01142-3 Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity before ever being trained on any data, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University. The findings, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, challenge conventional approaches to building A

A top Senate Republican just put his support behind a nationwide data center moratorium. “Senate Republicans trying to figure out what to do in the next 6 weeks?” Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley wrote in a post on X. “MORATORIUM on data centers”. Hawley becomes the first Senate Republican to voice support for a data center moratorium, which has so far largely been championed by progressive Democrats like Sen. Bernie Sanders. Hawley’s post comes a week after his

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter World leaders have raised concerns over the U.S. administration's recent placement of export controls on Anthropic's frontier AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, over national security concerns, Euronews reports. Suggesting this was a "wake-up call," moment, politicians and promin

All about Artificial Intelligence see more All about OpenAI see more OpenAI executives intensified their defense of federal safety rules for artificial intelligence in the United States. At the same time, Greg Brockman, the company's president, and his wife donated US$ 25 million to Leading the Future, a political group that supports candidates opposed to restrictions on the sector.The contribution exposes the conflict between public safety commitments and

Among the first AI companies that the Federal Trade Commission has exposed as deceiving consumers is DoNotPay—which initially was advertised as “the world’s first robot lawyer” with the ability to “sue anyone with the click of a button.” On Wednesday, the FTC announced that it took action to stop DoNotPay from making bogus claims after learning that the AI startup conducted no testing “to determine whether its AI chatbot’s output was equal to the level of

Palantir’s CTO, Shyam Sankar, went on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday and made a crack about AI-pilled tech people smoking because they think AI will cure cancer. On its face, it’s the kind of thing a 13-year-old whose uncle “works at Nintendo” would say. But hey, now that he’s said it on TV, maybe it’ll come true. “Alright I’m going to start smoking now” says probably-kidding-but-maybe-not X user @beep1984 in response to a post about Sankar’s quote. Another