Archive: September 2019

Credit: Zhuling Guo et al. Researchers at Tohoku University used artificial intelligence (AI) to try and solve the deeply complex and multi-faceted environmental issues in today's society. The findings were published in Environment International. Their study highlights innovative approaches where AI can pinpoint viable action plans, representing the most promising solutions available to us. "Our study reveals the breakthrough value of technologies such as

Spotting videos made by generative AI used to be as simple as counting the fingers of the people depicted. But as with every other aspect of the technology, while AI video’s utility remains questionable, its ability to create a reasonably convincing facsimile of human-created footage has come a long way since the days of this sort of cursed nonsense. And yet. There’s still something off about a lot of AI-created video—if anything, it looks too real, too in

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Character.AI continues to host chatbots that are explicitly modeled after real-world mass shooters. A new analysis published today by CNN and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that most mainstream chatbots are “typically willing” to assist users in orchestrating violent attacks ranging from religious bombings to school shootings, happily helping test users identify targe

Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The United States military has an AI hype problem, and if officials aren’t careful, it could lead to civil catastrophe. That’s according to a new analysis by the Brennan Center, a law and policy think tank, contends that the US military’s accelerated deployment of untested AI could lead to “unsafe systems” that inflict “excessive civilian harm and infringe on privacy and civil liberties.”

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ever wonder what your dog is trying to say? Well, a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is aiming to turn barks, howls and whimpers of man's best friend into intelligible speech—a kind of Rosetta Stone of woof. Computer scientist Kenny Zhu has built what he says is the world's largest video and audio catalog of canine vocalizations. In papers published this year, Zhu and his colleagues at the university report pot

Getty / Futurism AI chatbots will recommend that cancer patients try unproven alternatives to chemotherapy and offer up other unscientific medical claims, researchers found. While AI’s proneness to giving bad information is well known, it’s a particularly alarming finding given that it could be putting lives at risk by leading patients to try cancer treatments that don’t work, with tens of millions of Americans already using chatbots for health advice. In

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Hurricanes are America's most destructive natural hazards, causing more deaths and property damage than any other type of disaster. Since 1980, these powerful tropical storms have done more than US$1.5 trillion in damage and killed more than 7,000 people. The No. 1 cause of the damages and deaths from hurricanes is storm surge. Storm surge is the rise in the ocean's water level, caused by a combination of powerful winds pushing wa

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images What will Google CEO Sundar Pichai say next month when he gives the commencement speech at Stanford University? Under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t be a terribly interesting question. But if you’ve been paying attention to the headlines the past few weeks, it’s been an absolute massacre out there on the frontlines of college graduations for any speaker who dare

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Angry parents aren’t the only ones railing against the proliferation of AI in schools. The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teacher’s union in the United States, has now launched a major campaign calling on schools to keep AI and hardware like iPads out of elementary classrooms. In a buzzy speech at the National Press Club on Wednesday, AFT president Randi Weingarten un

Google will soon be one step closer to getting AI data centers up and running in outer space. The tech giant announced Thursday that its Project Suncatcher will launch a prototype satellite into low Earth orbit next week to test how well Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) hold up under the rough conditions of space. “This first launch is about seeing what works, identifying points of failure, and applying those findings to future missions,” the company

Gaming Elon Musk’s Dota 2 AI beats the professionals at their own game But humans did eventually prevail over the computers. Ars Staff – Aug 14, 2017 12:06 pm | 74 Shadow Fiend, looking shadowy and fiendish. Credit: Valve Shadow Fiend, looking shadowy and fiendish. Credit: Valve Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav OpenAI takes on Dendi. Last week was th

Robin Sloan writes about artificial intelligence in his latest novel, Sourdough, but he has also been writing with help from AI, too. In the latest episode of Ars Technica Live, filmed before actual humans at Oakland bar Eli’s Mile High Club, I talked to Sloan about his work. We started out by discussing how Sloan does his research, because Sourdough has some of the most accurate representations of robots you’ll find in a work of fiction. But it also has i

@ai_hack_lab(AI Hack Lab)【Python×Anthropic】How to Implement a Robust Pipeline for 100% Reliable Extraction of “Structured JSON” with Claude 3.5 SonnetPythonClaudeAILLMpydantic0Posted at 2026-11-12Hello, this is AI Hack Lab (@ai_hack_lab). We usually share practical know-how on business automation using Python and generative AI, as well as hands-on prompt engineering techniques. In the previous article (【Python×Claude API】Implementing a “Prompt Auto-Optimiz

“Artificial Intelligence” as we know it today is, at best, a misnomer. AI is in no way intelligent, but it is artificial. It remains one of the hottest topics in industry and is enjoying a renewed interest in academia. This isn’t new—the world has been through a series of AI peaks and valleys over the past 50 years. But what makes the current flurry of AI successes different is that modern computing hardware is finally powerful enough to fully implement so

The European Center for Digital Rights, known as Noyb, has filed complaints in 11 European countries to halt Meta’s plan to start training vague new AI technologies on European Union-based Facebook and Instagram users’ personal posts and pictures. Meta’s AI training data will also be collected from third parties and from using Meta’s generative AI features and interacting with pages, the company has said. Additionally, Meta plans to collect information abo

We’re racing towards a future where AI enables the “factory farming of humans,” a Harvard professor warns — if tech elites get their way, at least. In a new episode of The New York Time’s “Hard Fork” podcast, the historian Jill Lepore discusses her idea of an “artificial state” that’s supplanting the traditional nation state, and particular constitutional democracy, with one that erases human autonomy. In this emerging world order, government is conducted

Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in calling for a slowdown in the development of frontier AI models — just days after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced that he was quitting his job, claiming that neither Anthropic nor his former employer OpenAI is “acting responsibly.” The desire in Silicon Valley to pump the brakes is palpable. Following several hacki

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/Futurism Plenty of eyebrows went up this summer when one by one, the leaders of frontier AI labs announced that they were each calling for a slowdown in AI development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Grok creator Elon Musk were among those arguing that the tech was simply moving too fast to ensure it doesn’t fly off the rails. Several autonomous hacking sprees had already raised hackles earlier this year,