Archive: September 2020

Deezer said AI-generated tracks have surged from one in 10 streamed at the beginning of the year to one in three. It has become nearly impossible for people to tell the difference between music generated by artificial intelligence and that created by humans, according to a survey released Wednesday. The polling firm Ipsos asked 9,000 people to listen to two clips of AI-generated music and one of human-made music in a survey conducted for France-based strea

Published on June 20, 2026 at 12:05 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Marisa_Sias/Pixabay Blow into a sensor to have an AI determine whether you are incubating a serious respiratory or cardiac disease: the startup Ainos has just launched a clinical study in Taiwan to test exactly that. The technology is still in the validation phase. The promise deserves to be taken seriously. Medicine has long known that certain diseases leave traces in the air we exhale. Dogs have dem

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock We hear a lot about how college students are happy to use AI to help with their studies, if not churn out entire assignments. But is this too one-sided a narrative? Many appear to be having the opposite experience with the tech. Jeff Sharlet, a writing professor at Dartmouth College, said that his students are consumed by “resignation” and “despair” as they find themselves in an “arms rac

Starcloud Demand for the computing power that undergirds AI models — “compute,” in the lingo of the industry — has skyrocketed. Tech giants are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to construct massively resource-intensive data centers across the country, but the aging power grid and an increasingly resistant public are quickly turning these expansion efforts into nightmare. As an alternative, many AI companies — including Elon Musk’s SpaceX — are vo

If both conditions are met at once, the reason is recorded as the message limit. When the company’s phrase template is empty, the default phrase is sent. And one more minor detail: the old branch, when handing off, also set the message’s rating to “meaningless,” which skewed the analytics. Now the rating remains the one assigned by the model.Tests from the specificationThe behavior was first described through scenarios in the specification, and then each s

Every day, some little piece of logic constructed by very specific bits of artificial intelligence technology makes decisions that affect how you experience the world. It could be the ads that get served up to you on social media or shopping sites, or the facial recognition that unlocks your phone, or the directions you take to get to wherever you’re going. These discreet, unseen decisions are being made largely by algorithms created by machine learning (M

Shutterstock / Futurism Meta patented AI tech that constantly analyzes your voice and surroundings in order to detect your emotional state. Finally, exactly what we were all asking for: Meta being granted constant access to our offline lives. As first caught by Patentlyze, a patent published on July 2 describes a system that records all the user’s “audible communications” and combines it with “contextual factors” like “time of day, location, user activity,

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Large U.S. banks are restricting third-party artificial intelligence (AI) agents that access customers’ bank accounts. According to an Axios report, some of these systems attempt to carry out actions that appear to go beyond the instructions received.Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and Citi are among the institutions taking steps to mitigate risks, especially given the difficulty of

Magicpiano via Wikimedia Commons / Futurism Municipalities across the country are fighting tooth and nail to stop data center construction. But not Jay, Maine. The town with a population of just 4,600 people has been so desperate for one of these power-hungry facilities that the state governor Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would’ve banned new data centers of a certain size for the sole reason that it didn’t make an exception for Jay. But why? According to

There is little reason to hold out hope for future generations of cheap gaming gadgets. Today’s case in point is the Acer Predator Atlas 8, a gaming handheld that became so popular it sold out. Now, just two weeks after launch, it costs $150 more. The originally $1,300 Predator Atlas 8 became a hot-ticket handheld at launch, mostly because of its chip—the Intel G3 Extreme—and price point that was $500 cheaper than the similar MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ (though you

Gossip Goblin A fully AI-generated feature film is set to get a theatrical release and has already been rated R, making it the first AI film to be blessed by an official MPA rating. And the studio behind the movie, titled “Gods Don’t Give Gifts,” is even gearing up for an awards push. But whether it looks any better than all the slop that AI art has become known for is up for debate. The film’s creator, the popular YouTuber known as Gossip Goblin, dropped

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open-source software package developed by NASA, uses artificial intelligence to help find new transiting exoplanets in data collected by NASA’s missions. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of these planets were disc

Published on October 2, 2026 at 08:41 Updated on October 9, 2026 at 09:28 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced the dismissal of three employees. The startup accuses them of sharing sensitive information with an outside organization specializing in AI analysis. Update on October 9, 2026: One week after the announcement, OpenAI reversed the dismissal of the three employees involved in a data leak. The startup adds that an “

DOJ / Futurism Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested last week after being accused of bugging an OpenAI executive conference room in San Francisco, nabbed by the FBI and charged with using a device to “intercept oral communications.” The venture capital partner — who had been actively employed at OpenAI as a lead engineer for around a year before being fired this month — extensively consulted AI chatbots on how to install a bug and access its rec

Getty Images / Kevin Mazur / MG26 AI slop purveyors are stealing comedians’ jokes to create viral Instagram videos of fake comics. And Adam Mosseri, the longtime head of Instagram, says he doesn’t know what to do about it. As Wired reported last week, a recent trend among AI sloppers is to steal the work of real comedians and repackage it in AI-manipulated clips in which the human performers are replaced by fake AI ones. The AI performers in the videos are

Schematic illustration of the quantum refrigerator in a superconducting quantum circuit. Two microwave channels act as hot and cold heat reservoirs, highlighted by a reddish and a bluish glow, respectively. The heat reservoirs are coupled to an artificial molecule consisting of two qubits. Controlled microwave noise (white zigzag arrows) is injected through the side ports to drive and regulate heat transport. Credit: Simon Sundelin. For quantum computers t

Everything about Google see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more The parents of a 13-year-old girl are suing Google in the United States after discovering that their daughter spent months talking with the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) tools about depression, self-harm and suicide. The family accuses the company of exposing children to psychological risks without providing adequate warnings to parents and guardians or educational

Shutterstock The fear of AI has reached a fever pitch. There’s data to support it. According to the Chapman University Survey of American Fears, an annual poll that asks what Americans are “really afraid of,” the fear of AI hurting the political process and economy ranked in third and seventh place, respectively. These fears were only outdone by “corrupt government officials” and the possibility of the US becoming involved in another world war. Perhaps the