Archive: July 2018

The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is one of the most influential annual meetings for presenting and sharing research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. The NeurIPS 2022 organizing committee announced its coveted awards this week, recognizing thirteen Outstanding Papers, two in the Datasets & Benchmarks category, and a Test of Time p

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged by hospitality companies to meet or even exceed customers' expectations, according to a framework proposed by researchers in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management. The research team used the gap model, which explores ways to improve customer service, to provide a framework for how the hospitality industry can apply AI in balance with needs like catalyzing efficiency,

The catalytic advantages and design dilemma of molten catalysts for CH4 pyrolysis. Credit: Yuanzheng Chen et al Methane (CH4) pyrolysis, a reaction that produces hydrogen without emitting carbon dioxide, often utilizes molten media catalysts. A recent research paper published in the journal ACS Catalysis has explored how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping scientists identify these catalysts more efficiently. The industrial implementat

If you’ve ever tried to get your cybersecurity news picked up by media outlets, you’ll know just how much of a challenge (and how disheartening) it can be. You pour hours into what you think is an excellent announcement about your new security tool, threat research, or vulnerability discovery, only to watch it disappear into journalists’ overflowing inboxes without a trace.The cyber PR space is brutally competitive. Reporters at top publications receive te

Byoky: Open-source wallet for AI API keys Byoky is an open-source wallet for AI API keys, available as a Chrome and Firefox extension and as iOS and Android apps. Users store their keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and other providers in it, encrypted on their own device. Apps that want those keys ask the wallet for access, and the wallet sends each request to the provider itself. The app gets a session token. The key stays in the wallet. Byoky goe

Getting your hands on MagistralFor those wanting to experiment, Magistral Small is available now under the Apache 2.0 licence via Hugging Face. Those interested in the more powerful Medium version can test a preview through Mistral’s Le Chat interface or via their API platform. Enterprise users looking for deployment options can find Magistral Medium on Amazon SageMaker, with IBM WatsonX, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplace implementations coming soon.As t

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher, is sounding pretty conflicted about whether AI models can be conscious and have feelings. The flip side of that: she thinks it’s a possibility they already do — which would be a very fringe and controversial position. But, she takes pains to emphasize, it’s all very murky. “We don’t really know what gives rise to consciousness,” she said in

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A landmark study led by University experts has shown that artificial intelligence can better predict how doctors should treat patients following a heart attack. The study, conducted by an international team of researchers, led by the University of Leicester's Honorary fellow, Doctor Florian Wenzl working closely with Professor David Adlam, both from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, has been published in The Lancet Digita

Getty / Futurism The use of AI in Hollywood has turned into a lightning rod, especially as ongoing contract negotiations between major studios and the Writers Guild of America drag on. Earlier this week, the union released a list of contract demands, including expanded protections over the use and abuse of AI. On-screen performers and voice actors have also spent many months at the bargaining table with studios over concerns that their likeness and voices

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Meme wisdom holds that modern problems require modern solutions, but what peddlers of this internet adage failed to consider is that an antiquated and possibly impractical approach could be loads more fun. We present Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University who’s rebelling against a world gone mad with AI fever and pervasive brainrot by compelling students

(Picture=Google) Google has launched its voice conversation AI, 'Gemini Live,' on Apple's CarPlay platform. By providing it as a separate app beyond the existing Google Maps integration, it now competes with major AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude in the automotive voice AI market. Google announced on its official blog on the 11th (local time) that it has started supporting the use of the Gemini app on CarPlay. Following the introduction of Gemini-bas

Top row features genuine pictures of people with AI generated versions underneath. Credit: Swansea University A new study has revealed that artificial intelligence can now generate images of real people that are virtually impossible to tell apart from genuine photographs. Using AI models ChatGPT and DALL·E, a team of researchers from Swansea University, the University of Lincoln and Ariel University in Israel, created highly realistic images of both fictio

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jamie McCarthy / WireImage Feeling grateful for all the wonderful ways AI has changed your life yet? Jeff Bezos thinks you should be. On Wednesday, the Amazon founder brushed aside fears that AI would replace people’s jobs, arguing instead that it will instead be a magical tool that will supercharge productivity and make everyone’s work easier. The luddite masses just haven’t realized it yet. “If you’

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Jorge R. Gutierrez, the animator behind the beloved animated film “The Book of Life,” is enraging his fans after seemingly selling out to AI. At a conference held by Amazon MGM Studios on Wednesday, he unloaded a gushing encomium to the tech after announcing that he’d be working with the Amazon studio to create an AI-generated animated series called “Punky Duck.” (A shared still from the

Long exposure photograph of a man's face blurred as he moves and screams. On April 10, 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to social media to announce that his company was preparing to launch an exciting new feature. “A few times a year I wake up early and can’t fall back asleep because we are launching a new feature I’ve been so excited about for so long,” Altman declared in an early morning X-formerly-Twitter post. “Today is one of those days!” Hours later,