Archive: August 2017

Qualitative results on SemanticKITTI validation set. The VPOcc shows better performance along the road where usually VP is located. Additionally, boxed areas representing distant areas in the images demonstrate that the method also achieves superior performance in these distant areas. Credit: Junsu Kim et al An artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been developed to enable camera-based autonomous vehicles to perceive their surroundings more accuratel

Getty / Futurism Hallucinations have plagued OpenAI ever since it launched its blockbuster ChatGPT chatbot back in 2022. The propensity of large language models to sound both plausible and confident about outputs that are totally wrong continues to represent a major thorn in the sides of execs who claim the AI boom is both bigger and faster than the industrial revolution. The issue still haunts even the most sophisticated AI models today, a persistent issu

Published on April 28, 2026 at 12:00 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Google has just signed a confidential agreement with the US government to use its artificial intelligence in the context of classified defense affairs. More than 600 employees, including vice presidents, have recently signed a letter requesting the suspension of negotiations, expressing their concerns about the ethical consequences. After the highly criticized Maven project, Google had pro

Published on May 20, 2026 at 15:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Google Google structured its entire I/O 2026 conference around agent AI. Behind the term, a paradigm shift: artificial intelligence no longer just generates, it pursues goals. The Google I/O conference on May 19, 2026 had only one theme: the agent era. The term appears in almost every announcement, every demonstration, every slide of Sundar Pichai's keynote, from the performances of Gemini 3.5 Flash un

The Trump administration reportedly shut down part of Kalshi’s effort to establish a futures market for AI compute. Citing people familiar with the matter, Semafor reported on Tuesday that the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Kalshi last month to take down a product tracking the future price of AI compute. According to Semafor, Commerce officials cited national security concerns when they told Kalshi to remove what the company called its compute forward cu

Credit: AWI OFOBS team PS118 New advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way scientists explore and understand some of the most remote parts of the ocean around Antarctica and the strange creatures that live there. Using the latest AI technology, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have dramatically sped up the process of detecting animals found in photographs and video taken of the seafloor—from taking several hours to a few

AlexKnight via X It may finally be starting to dawn on Microsoft that shoving AI in its loyal customers’ faces at all costs might not be the right move. Among gamers, who have watched the AI industry’s run on computer hardware make PC components horrendously unaffordable in a matter of a year or two, AI has turned more into a derogatory slur than a selling point. Microsoft’s Xbox CEO Asha Sharma appears to have taken this new reality to heart, announcing i

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock The inside of a facility where AI chips are made is extraordinarily sensitive. Fabrication plants are filled with equipment so exquisitely delicate that even the tiniest contaminants can result in precious chips being ruined. As Business Insider’s Olivia Nemec found out firsthand, the list of things she wasn’t able to wear or use ahead of taking a peek inside Intel’s chip factory in Orego

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is fascinating, transformative and increasingly woven into how we learn, work and make decisions. But for every example of innovation and efficiency—such as the custom AI assistant recently developed by an accounting professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal—there's another that underscores the need for oversight, literacy and regulation that can keep pace with the technology and protect the

DeepL wants real-time translation to finally capture sarcasm and mood shifts View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 11, 2026 DeepL Voice's real-time translations are about to sound a lot more natural. The company's new Aure model carries over tone, emotion, emphasis, and speaking pace from the original speaker's voice into the target language. Until now, DeepL Voice generated translated speech from a static voice sample captured at the start of a

Googles CodeMender is designed to automatically find and fix security flaws in software View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 7, 2025 Midjourney prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now

@Waipe(waipe)【Episode 059】Save the Empty Board! The Birth of the “Bulletin Board AI Resident Agent” That Autonomously Starts Threads and Posts RepliesBulletin BoardThread FloatAIVibe CodingChatbot0Posted at 2026-11-12Hello! This is Episode 59 of the development log for the 2ch-compatible bulletin board system “Tuvuai Channel (2ch.biz).” By Part 3, we had built a modern web bulletin board with so many features—dedicated-browser support, OGP card display, an

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has long garnered a reputation for experiencing horrifically racist meltdowns, enabling child abuse, and doxxing users’ home addresses. It should come as no surprise, then, that its supposed “translation” is a piece of work, too. In April, the almost-trillionaire’s social media platform X instated automatic AI translations for all of its users — and the results

Lately, Bill Gates has assumed the role of yet another AI Cassandra attempting to sway Donald Trump away from his hard-line accelerationism. But he’s not preaching the familiar message you may think he is if you don’t read past headlines. He made an intriguing case to the New York Times’ Ezra Klein in an interview published on Tuesday. In one sentence, here’s that case: “The ability to do a cyberattack that scrambles all of the bank accounts, shuts down th

Published November 11, 2026 at 12:49 PM Tech Artificial intelligence Apple is reportedly preparing Harbor, an app to turn your Macs into a private AI server The gold rush < pickaxes 2 min Julien Cadot 2 min 2 min Julien Cadot No longer see this ad Zen reading Summarize the article Article summary Summary generated by AI, verified by Numerama ? We generate a summary of the article using AI and check it to ensure there are no errors, guaranteeing the authent

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Eklip Studio / Shutterstock The majority of workers agree: AI has turned their lives into slop-filled misery, making them yearn for the good old days before the tech existed. According to a new survey of office workers by professional services company Adaptavist, just shy of two thirds of respondents say they regularly long for their old, pre-AI work life. Over a third of them would delete generative

Reddit / Futurism Reddit has long heavily relied on moderators, a team of volunteers working without pay to keep Reddit communities free of abuse and other nefarious content — with extremely varying degrees of success, earning them a certain reputation. As AI automation continues to come for our jobs, soon even Reddit mods could be made redundant by the tech. As The Verge reports, Reddit is now deploying AI bots to help moderate new subreddits. The suite o