Archive: May 2016

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Credit: Mikael Blomkvist from Pexels Advertising is a combination of art and science, and for a small business competing with big brands, it can be hard—and costly—to develop ads that connect with consumers. But a team of researchers led by a Virginia Commonwealth University professor has developed a method of using artificial intelligence in ad creation, which could help level the playing field for businesses and lead to more targeted marketing to consume

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Today DSE and the University of Arkansas published a study in the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization and an open source tool that show the need for changes to federal crop insurance programs that could benefit farmers, companies, and the climate. The open-source tool uses artificial intelligence to depict a likely future for the U.S. corn industry, in which growers and insurance companies face increasin

Reuters reported Tuesday that “two people who attended investor presentations” ahead of the SpaceX IPO have leaked exciting news about SpaceX’s plan for AI data centers in space: There will supposedly be a tech demo launched by the end of next year. That’s super soon when you consider the company has also said in its S-1 filing (also according to Reuters), that the related initiatives “involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and

The foundation of effective medical practice lies in the exchange between physicians and patients, where adept history-taking lays the groundwork for precise diagnosis, efficient management, and the establishment of enduring trust. Recent advancements in general-purpose large language models (LLMs) highlight the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to plan, reason, and incorporate contextual nuances for engaging in naturalistic conversations.

Credit: Frontiers in Energy (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s11708-025-1022-4 Researchers from Jiangsu University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have revealed a promising solution to the global plastic waste crisis through solar-driven photoreforming. This technology not only transforms plastic waste into hydrogen fuel, but also produces valuable chemicals, according to a recent review published in Frontiers in Energy. The ever-growing accumulation of plastic wast

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 08: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. Altman and tech leaders from Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and CoreWeave testified about the global artificial intelligence race and how the United States can remain competitive. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A former OpenAI sa

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Things aren’t going well for the Calgary Flames, the professional Canadian hockey team founded in 1972. Despite pushing for a playoff spot late last year, the Flames only have three wins through fourteen games this season, securing an early spot as the worst team in the National Hockey League so far. Some fans think this may be the sign of early-season tanking — when a team loses on purpo

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI bros love cribbing what humans make so they can churn out loads of meaningless slop. But one of those humans wasn’t going to take getting ripped off without fighting back. Scott Collette, a Hollywood screenwriter who runs the popular “Forgotten Los Angeles” account on Instagram, says he noticed that an AI Facebook account was stealing his history posts for the past six weeks and “slopp

Getty / Futurism The podcast format has largely remained the same since its inception in the early 2000s: short shows recorded by hosts and distributed digitally to entertain or bring listeners up to date on the news. But with the advent of AI, tech companies are keen to stomp the essence out of what makes the format so appealing in the first place: a human-to-human connection. As such, the Washington Post announced this week that it’s launching an AI-base

Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced considerably in generating and understanding text, and recent developments have extended these capabilities to multimodal LLMs that integrate both visual and audio data. Despite these gains, these models still face challenges with fine-grained cross-modal temporal reasoning, especially in aligning events across audio and video streams. To address this, an NVIDIA research team has introduced OMCAT: Omni Context Awa

SpaceX Artificial intelligence companies are planning on investing unbelievable sums — more than a trillion dollars per year by OpenAI alone — building out enormous data centers that consume copious amounts of electricity, generate pollution, and take up considerable amounts of room. They’ve also been blamed for negative impacts on local water supplies, and make a lot of noise, making them unpopular among nearby residents. Now, in a bid to scale up operati

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC on Monday night, seeking a whopping $10 billion in damages. The suit alleges that the British broadcaster had produced a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump” in its Panorama documentary, which aired in the week leading up to the 2024 presidential election. More specifically, it accused the BBC of editing his i

Just nine months after Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, his anti-woke alternative to Wikipedia, the AI-generated encyclopedia appears to be dead or at least paused for now. Lawfare reported this week that Grokipedia appears to have stopped reviewing suggested edits and updating its articles since April 24. As far as its researchers could tell, no entry on the site has changed in more than three months. Although Grokipedia’s articles are written and maintaine

@yoxi95710 variations from one ad: Produce A/B test videos with AdMultiplierAIVideo generationAd0Posted at 2026-11-12 If you're making A/B test videos with AdMultiplier, start with an ad that's already performing well. Then, change only one element at a time for each video. By changing the opening, product, and character separately, you'll have 9 videos plus the original one, totaling 10 variations. After distribution, check the numbers and use the winning

✔ Successfully added marketplace: ai-process (declared in user settings) Installing plugin "ktms@ai-process"...✔ Successfully installed plugin: ktms@ai-process (scope: user)Skills call CLI ktms, it needs to be placed in PATH from the release archive or through go install. The plugin version matches the Keystone version.SkillWhat it does/ktms:assessLooks at the system and tells where Keystone is installed and where to start/ktms:deployCompose or Helm, secre

A visualization of an atom-thin crystal sandwiched between electrodes. Auburn physicists discovered that electrodes and tiny atomic imperfections help the material switch between insulating and metallic states. This switching is the key mechanism behind next-generation memory devices that could power low-energy computing, artificial intelligence, and wearable electronics. Credit: Department of Physics—Auburn University Picture the smartphone in your pocket