Archive: January 2021

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Businesses are learning the hard way that rapidly deploying AI tools — and forcing or strongly encouraging their employees to use them — can backfire severely. The latest appears to be Amazon — though one can debate whether it’s taking away the right lessons. On Tuesday, the Financial Times reports, the ecommerce giant summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting addressing recent out

Getty / Futurism The data centers at the heart of the AI boom are producing so much heat that they’re spiking land temperatures for miles around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, new research suggests. The effect is so pronounced that the researchers say they’re creating entire “heat islands.” The findings, detailed in a study that’s yet-to-be-peer-reviewed, add to an already grim picture of the environmental impact of these sprawling facilities, the la

Image showing the OFET pair poked with an out-of-plane normal force. Image Credit: Dr. Chengyi Xu. The rapid advancement of sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) systems has paved the way for the introduction of increasingly sophisticated wearable devices, such as fitness trackers and technologies that closely monitor signals associated with specific diseases or medical conditions. Many of these wearable electronics rely on so-called biosensors, devices

“No other human activity poses this level of danger,” said ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon in a Tuesday post on X about the alleged irresponsibility of companies like his now-former employer. To be clear, the category “dangerous human activities,” if expansively defined, would have to include an ongoing war in which one of the belligerents possesses the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. Another example of a dangerous and ongoing human activity would hav

Credit: AI-generated image How does high population growth affect gross domestic product? Economics students are all too familiar with exam questions like this. As free-text questions, they require not only specialist knowledge but also the ability to think and argue economically. However, grading these answers is a time-consuming task for university assistants: Each answer must be checked and assessed individually. Could artificial intelligence do this wo

Researchers from Chiba University analyzed over 80,000 street-view images to map vertical greenery in Tokyo, revealing that green facades are much more prevalent than living walls. The study also identified areas where additional greenery could improve urban comfort, mitigate heat, and enhance overall city life. Credit: Professor Katsunori Furuya / Chiba University, Japan sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210670725006729 In rapidly growing cities lik

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Some copywriter at Microsoft is getting a real stern talking to. In an internal document obtained by 404 Media, the tech giant let slip that it wants to “make people addicted” to its new personal assistant AI agent, Scout — an alarming admission, given that AI companies have tirelessly fought against the criticism that they design their models to be as engaging as possible, to the point o

In the future, the US Air Force hopes to have armed drones flying in formation with human pilots, responding to their verbal and digital commands to fight the enemy and strike targets. That would require an artificial intelligence capable of interpreting commands and applying knowledge of combat tactics—something that is already being proven in a project funded by the Air Force Research Lab. ALPHA, an artificial intelligence trained by a retired Air Force

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A lawyer was working at a legal tech startup when her boss’s fascination with AI began to veer from enthusiastic to downright obsessive. First he started using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate his Slack messages and emails. Then he mandated AI use for all employees. “He called a company-wide meeting to announce that from then on, we had to discuss with the AI prior to all meetings or before c

Computer science doctoral student Yili (Angel) Wen demonstrates an AI-assisted tool that makes it possible for visually impaired computer programmers to create, edit and verify 3D models independently. Credit: University of Texas at Dallas A University of Texas at Dallas researcher and his collaborators have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tool that makes it possible for visually impaired computer programmers to create, edit and verify 3

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Everything about OpenAI see more Representatives from OpenAI and Meta warned members of the U.S. judiciary on Thursday (15) about the growing difficulties of identifying fake videos and audio produced by artificial intelligence (AI). According to experts, the so-called deepfakes are becoming so sophisticated that it will be increasingly difficult to verify the authenticity of audiovisual evidence presented

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Intel shared more details of its Crescent Island AI accelerator, powered by the Xe3P architecture, at the Hot Chips symposium this week. Unlike Nvidia's Rubin and AMD's MI455X GPUs, which are high-power, exclusively liquid-cooled chips with massive pools of HBM4 memory that p

Dyson As Americans are being hailed as folk heroes for sawing down Flock surveillance cameras across the country, British home appliance company Dyson has come up with a form of video surveillance that we didn’t even know was possible. Yes: the company has launched a new AI-infused electric toothbrush that features a “100k pixel macro lens camera,” allowing users — brushers? — to “see what their dentist sees.” The appropriately named Dyson CameraJet claims

Shutterstock / Futurism If you ever feel like spilling your guts to ChatGPT, just know that you may have an audience. 404 Media reports that OpenAI is hiring hundreds of employees to sift through and read users’ prompts — including messages that contain sensitive personal information. This isn’t part of a moderation effort. Instead, by reviewing the prompts, OpenAI hopes to improve the responses that ChatGPT gives. The contractors rate and critique each of

Heather Diehl/Getty Images OpenAI Sam Altman says sorry, mathematicians: the onslaught of AI math slop will continue. The ChatGPT maker sparked an existential crisis in the field by releasing hundreds of AI-generated solutions to math problems that haven’t been solved by humans, and sparked further controversy over how it chose to release its solutions and communicate with mathematicians. But this doesn’t seem to bother Altman all that much. In an intervie

(Photo=Shutterstock) TSMC, the world’s largest foundry company, has decided to invest up to $1 billion (about 1.34 trillion won) in OpenAI and Anthropic, which are developing their own AI semiconductors. As the two AI companies pursue developing their own chips to reduce their dependence on external semiconductor makers such as Nvidia, TSMC’s move is also seen as an effort to strengthen ties with them by securing equity stakes, going beyond simply supplyin

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more When Facebook bought Instagram for US$1 billion in 2012, Brazilian Mike Krieger owned about 10% of the company he had created with American Kevin Systrom. More than a decade later, he is once again at the center of a multibillion-dollar technology battle, this time leading an Anthropic division dedicated to discovering what artificial intelligence (AI) can still offer.Krieger’s story in Silicon Valley began

Park Sung-yul, head of LGU+’s Enterprise Business Innovation Group (executive vice president), Hong Gwan-hee, head of the Information Security Center (CISO/CPO/executive vice president), and Frank Jüttner, CEO of TUV Rheinland Korea, pose for a photo holding their certificates. (Photo=LGU+) LG Uplus has become the first telecommunications company in South Korea to receive Level 3 certification under the international automotive cybersecurity standard. LGU+