Archive: August 2016

Credit: MART PRODUCTION from Pexels Human tutoring and computer-based AI tutors are widely recognized for their effectiveness in supporting learning. However, human tutoring is expensive and difficult to scale, and AI tutors vary widely in their ability to adapt to students' academic and motivational needs. In a new study, a team of researchers has evaluated a year-long virtual human-AI tutoring program during classroom use of AI tutors. Students tutored i

Getty / Futurism Last month, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from its land. When a tech startup approached Tribal leaders asking them to sign a nondisclosure agreement along with a letter of intent to construct a data center on Seminole territory, the Tribal Council unanimously shot them down, voting 24 to 0 to instead enact a permanent data center moratorium. The Seminole Nation

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images As AI continues to weave its way into every corner of daily life, one of the public’s chief fears is what it will mean in the workplace. They’re not irrational to worry. Many name-brand big tech companies have already sacked thousands of workers in favor of the technology, from Meta to Square — a trend that sets up a natural experiment: are these AI layoffs actually resulting in positive

To meet users’ need to independently select models for different tasks, Doubao Work officially integrated multiple third-party models, including Kimi 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, on November 12, and launched a limited-time special offer. Users can select the appropriate model to complete tasks based on their actual work needs.Previously, Doubao Work had made third-party models available to enterprise customers. To help users better understand

Futurism / Nickelodeon / Paramount Voice actors have been waging a fierce battle with the entertainment industry over training AI to synthesize their voices, effectively allowing them to reproduce their likenesses in perpetuity. Not even underage performers are safe from the encroaching tech. As Deadline reports, the owner of “Peppa Pig,” US entertainment juggernaut Hasbro, is now asking child actors of the beloved children’s animated TV series to surrende

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock An enormous amount of resources and money go into the construction of a data center. The enormous facilities are filled to the brim with extremely sought-after gear, from hard-to-get-by AI chips to cooling equipment. And for thieves eyeing these construction projects, there’s another worthwhile target as well: oodles of copper, a metal that has risen considerably in price over the last fe

Theranostic nanomaterials, tiny particles that can diagnose and treat TBI, cross the blood-brain barrier to deliver drugs directly to damaged tissue while tracking treatment in real time. Credit: Prof. Yun Hak Kim from Pusan National University, Republic of Korea Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains one of the most pressing public health challenges, leaving millions with lasting disabilities each year. When the brain suffers a sudden impact, from a fall, v

The White House has announced the “first government-wide policy to mitigate risks of artificial intelligence (AI) and harness its benefits.” To coordinate these efforts, every federal agency must appoint a chief AI officer with “significant expertise in AI.” Some agencies have already appointed chief AI officers, but any agency that has not must appoint a senior official over the next 60 days. If an official already appointed as a chief AI officer does not

Efforts to benchmark agents tasked with complex work show that they aren’t typically reliable enough to function without close supervision. LiveBench 2.0 shows Claude Fable 5.2 and ChatGPT-6 Astra succeeding on 82.9 and 75.6 out of 100 tasks, respectively, and an effort by the AI infrastructure company EON to test agents in a simulated corporate environment found the most successful model tested, Claude Opus 4.8, performed tasks at 76.8% accuracy. Now, a s

Brown Brothers / Futurism Yesterday, Futurism published a months-long investigation into a little-known company called Brown Brothers Media — a sprawling media empire that buys struggling news publications and turns them into AI-powered content mills, while engaging in deeply dishonest practices including the widespread use of fake writers and the mass publishing of fabricated reporting and first-hand accounts. BBM was founded in the early 2020s. At the ti

Shutterstock / Futurism The credit rating firm Egan-Jones hears all the serious talk about an AI murder spree apocalypse and raises a mundane, financial one. In a commentary bluntly titled “It’s Over,” the firm proclaimed that AI is about to obliterate the collective hyperstition and capitalist long con commonly known as “the economy.” “AI has advanced so far that the complete disruption of the economy is all but certain, and firms that sell expertise by t

Shutterstock / Futurism Ever wondered what it felt like to be a genius? It’s truly never been easier, thanks to the sycophantic power of ChatGPT. A viral post on X-formerly-Twitter encouraging people to “ask ChatGPT what percentile of intelligence it thinks you are compared to all its other users” is being flooded with wild screenshots, where the popular AI chatbot estimates that the vast majority of users rank among the smartest people in the population.

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Anthropic announced the launch of Personal Finance for the Claude assistant. The feature allows users to connect bank accounts and credit cards to track spending and clarify financial questions in plain language.The integration uses the Plaid platform and offers read-only access. This means that the system cannot move, manage, or invest users’ money. Personal Finance can query up to two years of transaction

@ohisama@githubCustom MCP Server, Part 9CustomMCPAIClaudeDesktopDesktopCommander0Posted at 2026-11-11 Overview I was curious about MCP servers, so I looked into them. I asked an AI. I tried Desktop-Commander. Desktop-Commander—why not! I’m giving up on building my own. I think that decision is very rational and wise! By using Desktop Commander MCP, you can directly operate your local PC’s terminal and files through AI (such as Claude Desktop), while avoidi

Elon Musk lost nearly $500 million on a failed attempt to buy favorable outcomes in the 2026 midterm election. Now, Tesla and SpaceX have shed nearly $500 billion in combined market value as the companies find themselves among the hardest hit in a post-election selloff of tech stocks. Tesla, which was in the red yesterday before the broader market downturn, has now fallen more than 14% over the last two days, wiping out nearly $220 billion off the company’

French astronaut Sophie Adenot, left, with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway will blast off to the ISS. Four astronauts could blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) next week, after setbacks including a mysterious medical evacuation of the previous crew, last-minute rocket problems, and some scheduling conflicts with NASA's moon mission. The crew was scheduled to launch on February 11, Elon Musk's SpaceX company said this week it w

“Foldable Flight” is a YouTube channel specializing in paper airplanes and an online database where you can select the paper airplane you want to make based on factors such as its construction difficulty, appearance type, and the paper to be used, and view instructions on how to make it. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes in the World! https://www.foldableflight.com/ Here is what the top page of Foldable Flight looks like. Besides the paper airplane

The news was first announced via an emailed press release sent out by Apple’s communications team in India early on Tuesday. The update rolled out in the U.S. and other markets later in the day. The sound recognition feature will help deaf and hard-of-hearing users identify important sounds like sirens, alarms, or doorbells from their watch, while the song recognition feature taps into Apple’s Shazam app to detect music playing in the background and identi