Archive: January 2018

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Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seemed to be sticking to his guns as he insisted that his company’s AI models not be used by the military to conduct mass surveillance of US citizens or control killer drones without human intervention. The CEO lashed out in an internal memo last week, which was leaked to The Information, accusing fellow OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman of bending the knee, claiming that he had given preside

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Thousands of tech workers are being laid off, from Atlassian slashing 1,600 jobs to Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Block firing almost half its workforce. Meta’s latest round of layoffs is rumored to affect an astonishing 20 percent or more of the company. A common thread among these devastating cuts is industry leaders touting the capabilities of AI, claiming that the tech has made the workers who find themselves on the choppin

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Few fears have taken hold of the public imagination quite like the specter of AI-driven unemployment. A recent survey by the think tank Data for Progress found that a majority of US voters think AI is likely to increase unemployment rates, a scenario that often feels like it’s playing out in the horrid job market. It makes a compelling narrative. Yet in a recent article published in Fortu

Diffusion models come of ageLTX-2 is what’s known as a diffusion model, which works by incrementally adding “noise” to generated content and then reducing that noise until the output resembles the video assets the model has been trained on.With LTX-2, Lightricks has accelerated the diffusion process, so creators can iterate on their ideas by outputting live previews almost instantaneously. The model is also capable of generating accompanying audio at the s

Getty / Futurism Late last year, Anthropic had its AI model, Claude, run a large vending kiosk in the Wall Street Journal’s offices. It didn’t take long for the experiment to go off the rails. After being given a starting balance of $1,000, the AI ordered a PlayStation 5, several bottles of wine, and a live betta fish — questionable purchases that inexorably drove it into financial ruin. Now, the company has upped the ante, creating a Craigslist-like class

Published on May 6, 2026 at 08:50 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © lukgehr (Pixabay) Apple is preparing to turn the iPhone into a true AI toolbox. With iOS 27, the Cupertino-based company would allow its users to freely choose their preferred AI, among ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. These models can be used to animate Apple Intelligence functions. This is an unprecedented strategic shift for Apple. Since the launch of Apple Intelligence, Apple has relied exclusively on

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated on Thursday (8) that people or companies that continue to use the term 'artificial intelligence' instead of 'superintelligence' (SI, as an English acronym) would be considered 'enemies' of the White House. The statement was published by Trump on the Truth Social network, amid a government-promoted change in how the technology is referred to.According

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Craig T Fruchtman / WireImage via Getty Images There’s plenty of hype to go around about AI. It’s going to revolutionize this and automate that. But how, exactly? It’s a question that’s become increasingly pressing as governments and investors bet increasingly massive gobs of cash on its power to change the world. Unfortunately, even AI’s move devoted acolytes are struggling to articulate how AI is ac

Critterz Remember when OpenAI was supposed to upend Hollywood by making a fully AI-generated animated movie? Such a feat would’ve been curtains for studios like Pixar, which spend hundreds of millions of dollars on each film. It would be a proof-of-concept that a magical AI model could churn out a family friendly box office hit for a fraction of that amount, in a fraction of the time. Of course, like many AI industry promises, that ambition hasn’t panned o

In a paper published Tuesday, six major global banks, including Bank of America and Capital One, warned that agentic shopping has “risks spanning transparency, safety, privacy & data, choice, and interoperability” that increase “as greater autonomy is given to AI agents.” AI developers, as well as various retailers and major payment processors, have been working to unveil agentic commerce chatbots, aka AI agents that promise to completely automate the proc

Top AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google’s DeepMind are sounding the alarm on AI safety and calling for industry-wide coordination. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg thinks it’s useless. “There are a number of labs that are working on building advanced AI, and I don’t think that we need some kind of industry-wide coordination to not, necessarily, mess this up,” Zuckerberg told journalist Joanna Stern in an interview. “I think that just each lab needs to take th

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes motor impairments such as hand tremors and difficulty walking, and the number of patients has been rapidly increasing in recent years. A study has found that signs of Parkinson’s disease may appear in a person’s “gait” several years before they are diagnosed with the disease. Real-world gait changes preceding Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in a population-scale UK biobank cohort | Journal of Ne

Image via Threads An unbalanced stalker posed as an unwitting man’s fiancé, claiming they had a child together. To sell the act — and live out her obsessive fantasy — she used AI to edit images that showed them going on dates together, and even that she was pregnant with his child. And she was doing this for years. It’s a saga that’s somehow even more bizarre than it sounds. The man, pseudonymously identified as Luke, had no idea that there was a woman out

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Public opinion polls and other surveys rely on data to understand human behavior. New research from Dartmouth reveals that artificial intelligence can now corrupt public opinion surveys at scale—passing every quality check, mimicking real humans, and manipulating results without leaving a trace. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show just how vulnerable polling has become. In

A starter on Skynet The basics of modern AI—how does it work and will it destroy society this year? Today’s AI is technically “weak”—but it’s complex and can have a great societal impact. Haomiao Huang – Apr 9, 2019 8:30 am | 122 You don't have to be Keir Dullea to know that fully grasping artificial intelligence can be intimidating. Credit: George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images You don't have to be Keir Dullea to know that fully grasping artificial intel

Continuing to evolve the fact-checking service that launched as Twitter’s Birdwatch, X has announced that Community Notes can now be requested to clarify problematic posts spreading on Elon Musk’s platform. X’s Community Notes account confirmed late Thursday that, due to “popular demand,” X had launched a pilot test on the web-based version of the platform. The test is active now and the same functionality will be “coming soon” to Android and iOS, the Comm

Using ChatGPT to research cyber threats has backfired on bad actors, OpenAI revealed in a report analyzing emerging trends in how AI is currently amplifying online security risks. Not only do ChatGPT prompts expose what platforms bad actors are targeting—and in at least one case enabled OpenAI to link a covert influence campaign on X and Instagram for the first time—but they can also reveal new tools that threat actors are testing to evolve their deceptive