Archive: April 2017

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the coming years, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will doubtlessly proliferate, seeping into most corners of U.S. society and transforming economies around the globe. But don't expect AI to confer a competitive advantage, at least over the long haul, according to a new paper co-authored by University of Utah business scholar Jay Barney. The reason: AI technologies, such as generative chatbots, will be equally

Large-scale neural networks have revolutionized generative models by granting them an unprecedented ability to capture complex relationships among varies variables. Among this model family, diffusion models stand out as a power approach for image generation. Nevertheless, when dealing with discrete data, diffusion models still fall short of the performance achieved by autoregressive models. Alex Graves, a renowned researcher in the field of machine learnin

When Kevin O’Leary, a.k.a Mr. Wonderful, found that his Shark Tank-ian pitch to the people of Utah to put up a massive data center on their land received a collective, “I’m out” from the citizenry, he insisted that the protestations weren’t coming from true Utahans but rather from a Chinese influence campaign—and swore he had “guys” who could prove it. On Thursday, he admitted that his source for those claims was his vivid imagination. “Recently I appeared

Getty / Futurism The CEO of a company that’s pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much about having AI slop shoved down their throats. Inception Point AI CEO Jeanine Wright told the Hollywood Reporter that “people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites.” It’s an incendiary comment, likely aimed to provoke a debate. While the billions the AI industry is s

For teams using Atlassian’s Jira and Confluence, Claude could become a serious helper. Think drafting product specs, summarising long Confluence documents so you don’t have to wade through them, or even creating batches of linked Jira tickets at once. It might even spot potential roadblocks by analysing project data. And if you use Intercom for customer chats, this integration could be a game-changer. Intercom’s own AI assistant, Fin, can now work with Cla

AI Generated Videos (Screenshots) The US government shutdown has officially reached a month in length, the second longest federal funding gap on record. That makes it a perfect storm for the chaos-fueled Trump administration, which now has a de facto kill switch that Elon Musk’s DOGE couldn’t even dream of. As the shutdown drags on, it’s wreaking havoc on the nation, leaving millions of government workers without pay. As a consequence, the US is suffering

Credit: Yan Krukau from Pexels New research from the University of South Australia has revealed that tertiary students' learning habits are deeply connected to how they engage with generative artificial intelligence tools. The work is published in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. Surveying 435 students from Australia and Canada, the study investigated how confidence, motivation, and effort regulation influence perceptions of AI-powered t

Gboard, Google’s keyboard for mobile devices, utilizes statistical decoding to offer a smooth typing experience. It features both automatic and manual error correction capabilities, ensuring user-friendly interactions. Leveraging the impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), Gboard enhances sentence- and paragraph-level corrections, revolutionizing the typing experience. In a new paper Proofread: Fixes All Errors with One Tap, a Google resea

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Online political debates are often characterized by sharp divisions, personal attacks and a low level of information. But a new study from the University of Copenhagen and King's College London shows that this does not have to be the case. By adjusting just a few elements in the way we debate, the quality of the conversation can be significantly improved. However, a better tone of debate does not necessarily change people'

Tools designed for rewriting, refactoring, and optimizing code should prioritize both speed and accuracy. Large language models (LLMs), however, often lack these critical attributes. Despite these limitations, there remains significant potential for leveraging LLMs to enhance code quality. In a new paper Don’t Transform the Code, Code the Transforms: Towards Precise Code Rewriting using LLMs, a Meta research team proposes a novel chain-of-thought strategy

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Public spaces aren’t the only place you need to be worried about being monitored. In 2025, officials are even placing AI surveillance gadgets in school bathrooms. New reporting by Forbes revealed the troubling rise of AI surveillance at the Beverly Hills High School that may be a sign of things to come for school districts throughout North America. From video drones capturing footage of t

By the way, in some consoles, the macron in the second variant is noticeably shifted. This is the same rendering issue that forced us to adjust character frames in step 3. In our scripts, such normalization is performed for each text before rendering. After this, each letter has exactly one representation. The model sees the same codes for identical letters and doesn't learn anything extra.Step 2. Drawing strings with different fontsPrinted publications ar

The challenges of enterprise AI are not just about whether the model is strong enough Large models make natural language interaction easier, but they haven't automatically solved the issue of accurately understanding enterprise knowledge. The same business metric may have different definitions, and the same type of object might be scattered across multiple systems; systems, experience, and exception rules are distributed in documents, data dictionaries, an

Donald Trump via Truth Social This week, US president Donald Trump posted an AI slop image of himself as Jesus Christ, miraculously healing a sick man while a host of angels look on from above and an American flag ripples in the background. It was only the latest in a dizzying series of AI images the president has posted to social media — from a picture of himself as the Pope to racist clips depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes — his latest post app

Getty / Futurism For years now, a thriving cottage industry in China has been offering families the opportunity to speak to an AI clone of their deceased loved ones — for a monthly fee, of course. But what if the surviving member of the family isn’t clued in to the fact that they’re speaking with an AI representation, rather than their actual loved one? According to the South China Morning Post, which quotes reporting from a Chinese news outlet called Litc

In the space of a historical heartbeat, the world has been inundated with AI slop. Granted, the internet was never a beacon of integrity and trustworthiness. But before ChatGPT launched nearly four years ago, you could at least read an article, watch a video, or listen to a song online and be almost certain a human created it. Not so anymore. We’re living in the era of uncertainty, when half the published text on the internet was written by bots, Trump’s a