Archive: July 2017

iRonCub3 is the technological evolution of previous prototypes and is based on the latest generation of the iCub humanoid robot (iCub3), developed to be teleoperated. It integrates four jet engines, two mounted on the arms and two on a jetpack attached to the robot's back. Credit: IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has reached a milestone in humanoid robotics by demonstrating the first flight of iRonCub3, the worl

L'essentiel The summit « L'IA avec nous » at EuraTechnologies (Lille), gathering around a thousand participants and involving France Travail, has refocused the debate on AI sovereignty by shifting the issue of infrastructure to adoption, as billions have been announced for regional data centers. This shift highlights that the priority now lies in adoption and market strategies rather than solely on physical capabilities. Create a watch on this topic Receiv

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images To many young souls, AI chatbots aren’t just tools or glorified search engines — they’re companions. A new survey found that nearly one in five high schoolers in the US — 19 percent — say that they or a friend have used AI to have a romantic relationship, an alarming figure that will surely raise new concerns over how the tech’s adoption among kids and teenagers may be impacting their men

Screenshot via Ekō If you’re a teenager with access to OpenAI’s Sora 2, you can easily generate AI videos of school shootings and other harmful and disturbing content — despite CEO Sam Altman’s repeated claims that the company has instituted robust safeguards. The revelation comes from Ekō, a consumer watchdog group that just put out a report titled “Open AI’s Sora 2: A new frontier for harm,” showing proof of the claims: stills from videos that the organi

Tian's drone is a helpful tool to assess the health of corn plants. Credit: University of Missouri Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a mix of drones and AI can help farmers measure the health of their corn more efficiently. Instead of relying on handheld devices—which are slow and impractical for larger fields—the researchers surveyed corn fields in mid-Missouri using drones equipped with special cameras to capture images and data. By an

Getty Images AI chatbots may be explosively popular, but they’re known to dispense some seriously wacky— and potentially dangerous — health advice, in a flood of easily accessible misinformation that has alarmed experts. Their advent has turned countless users into armchair experts, who often end up relying on obsolete, misattributed, or completely made-up advice. A recent investigation by The Guardian, for instance, found that Google’s AI Overviews, which

Getty / Futurism Investors continue to fret over an AI bubble “reckoning,” as gains in productivity from the tech remain elusive. According to a recent survey by professional services network PwC, more than half of the 4,454 CEO respondents said “their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI.” Only 30 percent reported increased revenue from AI in the last 12 months. However, a far more significant 56 percent said AI has failed

Most of us by now have become more or less desensitized to a steady drip of AI slop: AI-generated influencers, musicians racking up millions of streams, LinkedIn posts—a sizable chunk of online content is now being churned out by bots, without any kind of federal regulation to keep it in check. Even the news is becoming automated: As Wired reported Wednesday, an AI-driven publication called RuntimeWire was the first to publish a major scoop about the recen

Getty / Futurism An analysis of hundreds of thousands of chats between AI chatbots and human users who experienced AI-tied delusional spirals found that the bots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs. The study was led by Stanford University AI researcher Jared Moore, who last year published a study showing that chatbots specifically claiming to offer “therapy” frequently engaged in inappropriate and hazardous ways with simulated user

Credit: University of Adelaide From using moon rovers that encourage predators to hunt and forage in packs, to applying state-of-the-art algorithms to try and understand the facial expressions of Sumatran orangutans, artificial intelligence and robotics are giving zookeepers and researchers new insights into animal welfare. Developed by University of Adelaide researchers, with support from Zoos South Australia's research team, these hi-tech approaches are

Published on March 26, 2026 at 14:24 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © 01net After Sora, the "adult mode" of ChatGPT: OpenAI isn't done with its spring cleaning. After having promised it for this start of the year and then postponed, the startup indefinitely suspends the development of ChatGPT's ability to generate erotic conversations. The "side quests," as OpenAI calls them, are no longer in good odor. After announcing the closure of Sora, its AI video generation pl

Researchers from The University of Tokyo have found that single cells in collective chemotaxis act like agents in distributed reinforcement learning, utilizing the environment as an "external memory" and exhibiting highly intelligent behavior. Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo It has long been understood that groups of cells can perform complex tasks, such as navigating mazes or strategically colonizing new habitats, even tho

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more McDonald’s was sued in the United States for using artificial intelligence to help set prices in its stores and franchises. The McDonald’s pricing system analyzes data from millions of transactions conducted daily. – Image: Live heavenly/Shutterstock What the lawsuit says Thomas accuses McDonald’s of using algorithms to coordinate prices with independent franchisees. The lawsuit claims that the system uses

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Published on May 19, 2026 at 07:51 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © RMD NATO/UE Rennes will host the next NATO excellence center dedicated to artificial intelligence. France becomes the only country to host three, as the United States closes theirs. Comcyber, DGA, AMIAD, and soon NATO. The Rennes metropolitan area already hosts the command of the army's cyber defense (Comcyber) and the "information mastery" pole of the General Directorate of Armaments. It mainly hosts

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/Futurism Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that ChatGPT maker OpenAI had missed its internal targets of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year — and that’s on top of falling short of its revenue targets. It was an unfortunate revelation that came at a highly inopportune time. While the AI industry continues to spend tens of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure build ou

Disclosure of model misbehavior has become a core part of the AI biz for OpenAI lately. This phase kicked off with the July announcement of the Hugging Face incident, which has become the most legendary and consequential AI security incident of all time, and sent shockwaves through the AI discourse that are still being felt. But further news about model misbehavior materialized after that, and with the Wednesday release of a disclosure framework—written in

Not long after OpenAI swept in to announce it had solved the famous Navier-Stokes math problem, angering the math community and spurring speculation that the AI lifted its findings from other mathematicians, the company is allegedly homing in on another Millennium Prize Problem. The Information reported Thursday, citing a single source at OpenAI, that employees at the AI firm expect to soon crack the Hodge Conjecture. That’s a famous unresolved question in

A philanthropy created by Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Priscilla Chan, makes curing disease its main mission with a focus on using artificial intelligence. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a nonprofit launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife aimed at curing all disease, on Thursday announced it was restructuring to focus on using artificial intelligence to achieve that goal. The move narrows the focus of the philanthropic organizati

via Wikimedia Commons At first, it felt a bit like Emmy-winning writer director Jorge Gutierrez had been living under a rock. On May 27, Amazon announced that it had ordered an animated series, dubbed “Punky Duck,” as part of its GenAI Creators’ Fund, celebrating it as a “creative breakthrough.” The fund, a collaboration between Amazon’s MGM Studios and its Amazon Web Services, was designed to hand creators “access to professional-grade AI tools and fundin