Archive: November 2015

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is getting more powerful—but it's also racking up a massive energy bill. Some estimate that one maximum-length ChatGPT query can use about twice as much power as an average U.S. home does in one minute. Multiply that by billions of queries and the enormous training AI models require, and the energy impact is staggering. As researchers are racing to find greener ways to power AI, a new study led by T

New Orleans police have reportedly spent years scanning live feeds of city streets and secretly using facial recognition to identify suspects in real time—in seeming defiance of a city ordinance designed to prevent false arrests and protect citizens’ civil rights. A Washington Post investigation uncovered the dodgy practice, which relied on a private network of more than 200 cameras to automatically ping cops’ phones when a possible match for a suspect was

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 Alibaba Cloud has released a new lightweight image generation AI model, called Qwen Image 2.1. Sporting just 7 billion parameters, it's an extremely lean open-weight model, able to run on even older consumer graphics cards like the RTX 3090. Despite its lightweight design, its

AGI House / Futurism The tech world’s potential future founders are living out hedonistic existences in giant Silicon Valley mansions, where they live with a dozen and even more like-minded individuals, and where life is more a less a constant party. These so-called hacker houses, though, have a dark side. A recent New York Times investigation has uncovered several harassment cases and rape allegations stemming from hacker houses. The most prominent of the

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang says the AI chip titan is working with Mercedes to put self-driving capabilities into some of its electric cars. Even if Elon Musk's dream of robotaxis for everyone is a long way off, sleek electric cars powered by artificial intelligence packed the Consumer Electronics Show, promising to liberate people from the tedium of driving. Letting go of the steering wheel is no longer a fantasy: Waymo's robotaxis in the United S

Getty Images / NurPhoto Meta’s corporate offices in São Paulo are the site of ongoing protests against election interference in the crucial national run-off elections in Brazil. Hundreds of protestors rallied at the company’s offices on Tuesday, carrying effigies mocking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the devil incarnate, Venezuelan publication TeleSur reported. The demonstration coincided with an order by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court demanding that Meta

Shutterstock / Futurism Michigan is set to deploy a major new software system to prisons across the state, meant to classify incarcerated people based on “how dangerous they are.” That’s according to Detroit channel Fox2, which reports that the Michigan Department of Corrections is plowing ahead with an inmate categorization algorithm that will sort people into various housing levels. In Michigan, incarcerated people are separated into five housing levels

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 4 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Flock's AI surveillance cameras are continuing to cause controversy, this time in Dayton, Minnesota, where it is alleged that the company reinstalled two cameras despite express orders from the city not to do so. The city's local government posted on Facebook to explain, clai

Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 Midjourney prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Facing U.S. sanctions and supply shortages, Huawei is directing customers to procure memory for its new AI chips independently on the black market. Smugglers dodge U.S. rules by pairing HBM with low-end processors and

Even Professors Are Cutting Corners with Claude… Jay reporting from Aofeisi QbitAI | WeChat Official Account QbitAI AI is ruining my computer science degree. The one who wrote this complaint was a sophomore girl who had dreamed of studying computer science since childhood, Katie. With no prestigious university to her name, she had only managed a B in high school math; she had received no formal professional training before, and the only “project experience

OpenAI researchers collaborated with Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and the Stanford Internet Observatory to investigate how large language models might be misused for disinformation purposes. The collaboration included an October 2021 workshop bringing together 30 disinformation researchers, machine learning experts, and policy analysts, and culminated in a co-authored report building on more than a year of research. T