Archive: August 2017

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Back in April, Anthropic announced it had built a new AI model, called Mythos, that had an unprecedented ability to find gaps in cybersecurity systems. Citing the risk of the powerful new model falling into the wrong hands, the company initially withheld its public release, only slowly granting access to a small group of early testers through a project known as Project Glasswing. Today, Mythos finally made its first public debut—albeit in a considerably ne

Setting the stage for futuristic digital interactionsInnovation did not stop with the internet or Web 2.0 social media networks. We now have more advanced technologies, notably AI and web 3.0, which are proving to be game-changers in the hyper-personalisation of digital experiences. So, how are the two technologies adding value to today’s static digital profiles?Let’s start with AI. Innovations in this space have been the talk of the technology community a

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Good artists borrow, great artists steal, as the adage goes. In the cutthroat and almost completely unregulated modern AI industry, there are many tech developers who would probably agree. Few of them would come right out and admit it, though. Not long after the generative AI boom took the business world and Wall Street by storm, a chorus of complaints started being leveled against companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Google, whose models were

Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Photo source: Axelle / Bauer-Griffin / FilmMagic via Getty Images Stan Lee, the great Marvel comic book impresario, died back in 2018 at the age of 95, but that’s not stopping ghouls from digging up his grave and propping up his corpse for profit — digitally, that is, in the form of a life-size AI avatar. If you attend the Los Angeles Comic Con between September 26 to 28, you’ll be able to pay $15 to $2

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Sorry, fellas: your spicy AI anime girlfriend is actually destroying your mind — at least according to Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas. During a fireside chat at the University of Chicago, covered by Business Insider, Srinivas charged that the huge rise in popularity of AI-powered companion chatbots is “dangerous.” The tech CEO fretted that the AI bots — which are designed to mimic doting

Sorry in advance for this, but: do you remember back in January when Darren Aronofsky, director of the best movie ever made about computers and math, produced a series of AI shorts about the founding fathers, and they sucked? No? Here, let me jog your memory: If you can make it through that entire clip, you’ll notice at the very end there’s a logo for something called Primordial Soup. Primordial Soup calls itself “an AI-native storytelling studio founded b

Credit: University of Maryland One afternoon in September 2020, Loran Hughes noticed an ominous plume forming in the Southwest Oregon sky, shrouding the sun in darkness. The 62-year-old amateur astrophotographer, who had weak lungs, uploaded an image from his sky camera and fired off a tweet (below). "These are not clouds," it read. "Wildfire smoke *cough*." Hughes feared the blaze was headed his way, as winds began spitting out debris. "We had ashes as bi

In recent years, Voice Transfer (VT) technology has made notable strides, particularly in applications such as Text-to-Speech (TTS), Voice Conversion (VC), and Speech-to-Speech Translation. However, achieving high-quality zero-shot or one-shot voice transfer, especially for unseen speakers, remains a significant challenge. In a new paper Zero-shot Cross-lingual Voice Transfer for TTS, a Google research team presents a new VT module that seamlessly integrat

Getty / Futurism Rumors surrounding OpenAI preparing to stuff ads into ChatGPT are hitting a fever pitch. Last week, engineer Tibor Blaho made headlines after discovering references to an “‘ads feature’ with ‘bazaar content,’ ‘search ad’ and ‘search ads carousel'” hidden inside the code of ChatGPT’s Android app. Now, users are starting to notice strange inclusions at the end of the chatbot’s output as well, encouraging users to download the apps of sometim

Getty / Futurism Two researchers are warning of the devastating psychological impacts that AI automation, or the threat of it, can have on the workforce. The phenomenon, they argue in a new article published in the journal Cureus, warrants a new term: AI replacement dysfunction (AIRD). The constant fear of losing your job could be driving symptoms ranging from anxiety, insomnia, paranoia, and loss of identity, according to the authors, which can manifest e

Getty / Futurism Fast food franchises have struggled to reliably replace drive-thru employees with AI chatbots, resulting in abundant corporate frustration. Not only are customers being driven mad by the bots getting orders completely wrong, but even some company executives are also being worn down by the flailing effort. Some major players in the space, like McDonald’s, have given up on their AI-powered drive-thru efforts entirely, signaling that perhaps

AI Generated Images via Mystery Hub / Facebook If you haven’t taken a scroll through the reels on Instagram and Facebook in a while — or if your algorithm is sufficiently shielded from the avalanche of troubling AI slop infesting its feed — you may have missed the rise of AI faith healers performing miracles on impossibly disgusting ailments. Take a quick peek through the dregs of Facebook’s AI influencers to see just what we mean — but don’t say we didn’t

Earlier this month, I noticed that a Pew survey hinted that Gen-X respondents might not be all that excited about AI one way or the other. Pew’s report highlighted a freaked out response among younger people, but my eye was drawn to the relative apathy on display from 50- to 64-year-olds. That survey wasn’t divided into tidy generational cohorts, but a new study from Glassdoor is, and its findings hint at the same trend as Pew: 46.1% of Gen-X workers had n

Few stories in the history of literature have been adapted more than Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Originally published almost 200 years ago, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge learning the meaning of Christmas after being visited by three different ghosts has been made, remade, and made again. Truly, there are movies out there you may not even realize are A Christmas Carol that are actually A Christmas Carol. This weekend, a new version hits theaters: Eb