Archive: April 2021

How would you like it if, when stumped or just in need of some help with an unfamiliar situation, your doctor consulted a free, ad-supported AI chatbot? That’s not actually a hypothetical. They probably are doing that, a new report from NBC News says. It’s called OpenEvidence, and NBC says it was “used by about 65% of U.S. doctors across almost 27 million clinical encounters in April alone.” An earlier Bloomberg report on OpenEvidence from seven months ago

Baidu, Inc. ,a leading AI company with strong internet foundation, today hosted its annual flagship developer conference Baidu Create 2022. The event was held virtually in XiRang, Baidu’s metaverse app, as the company’s first conference co-hosted by humans and robots. In addition to featuring several key technology advancements, Baidu Create offered an in-depth exploration of Baidu’s research and analysis of future technology trends, covering a range of em

The recent and rapid development of powerful machine learning models for computer vision has boosted 2D and 3D human pose estimation performance from RGB cameras, LiDAR, and radar inputs. These approaches however can require expensive and power-hungry hardware and have raised privacy concerns regarding their deployment in non-public areas. A Carnegie Mellon University research team addresses these issues in the new paper DensePose From WiFi, proposing WiFi

BBCube: Bumpless Build Cube. A bumpless three-dimensional semiconductor integrating technology can address the challenges posed by traditional system-in-package (SiP) approaches. Credit: Institute of Science Tokyo A novel power supply technology for 3D-integrated chips has been developed by employing a three-dimensionally stacked computing architecture consisting of processing units placed directly above stacks of dynamic random access memory. Toward reali

Credit: CC0 Public Domain UCLA researchers have made a significant discovery showing that biological brains and artificial intelligence systems develop remarkably similar neural patterns during social interaction. This first-of-its-kind study reveals that when mice interact socially, specific brain cell types synchronize in "shared neural spaces," and AI agents develop analogous patterns when engaging in social behaviors. The study, "Inter-brain neural dyn

Such findings have led to bipartisan efforts in the US Congress to curtail DeepSeek’s influence, with lawmakers scrambling to protect sensitive data from potential CCP oversight.Reps. Darin LaHood (R-IL) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) are spearheading efforts to introduce legislation that would prohibit DeepSeek from being installed on all government-issued devices. DeepSeek is collecting the sensitive data of American citizens and sending it directly to the C

The era of artificial intelligence could be a boon for entrepreneurs—not for using AI to build a business noecessarily, but because enterprising thieves can jack some equipment from the build site and flip it for a quick buck. That was the plan of some thieves in Illinois who, unfortunately for them, got caught with more than $300,000 worth of copper wire spools swiped from a data center facility hundreds of miles away, according to a report from Business

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Getty / Futurism Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is spending untold billions on infrastructure and top talent for its AI ambitions. In fact, the CEO announced during the company’s earnings call on Wednesday, Meta will be spending between $70 billion and $72 billion on AI this year — up from its previous estimate of $66 billion to $72 billion, as CNBC reports. Unsurprisingly, that cash bonfire isn’t going over well with investors. Meta’s shares slid by more than 11

TechHalla via X A video that went viral this week shows an AI-generated take on the iconic sitcom “Friends” that’s so bizarre that it’s uncomfortable to watch. While the set appears to be largely recognizable, the cast members bear almost no resemblance to the show’s actual human actors. Performers also sprout random limbs, their hands teleport through doors, and at one point, towards the end of the video, one sloppified cast member mysteriously sheds a cl

Artificial intelligence has always had the capacity to present a meaningful improvement in accessibility for people with disabilities. Unfortunately, accessibility devices usually aren’t thought to have major commercial applications, so they often get coopted by tech bros who think every innovation is for them. Case in point: the technology of Augmental. The startup pretty explicitly markets itself as an accessibility technology company. On its “About” pag

A planned funding round at Hangzhou, China-based hedge fund and unexpected AI juggernaut DeepSeek has probably been cancelled. According to a very delicately worded Bloomberg report, this comes just on the heels of the supposed leak of a long, off-the-cuff conversation with the company’s reclusive founder and CEO, Liang Wenfeng, that went viral. The conversation in question would read as extremely dull to most people, but went viral for being more than a b

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In 18th century Vienna, the Hungarian engineer and debutant Wolfgang von Kempelen shocked court patrons with a bizarre contraption: a great mechanical box which could seemingly play and even win chess games without any input from a human. Called the “Mechanical Turk,” Kempelen’s device became the talk of high society for decades, and went on to beat famed opponents including Ben Franklin

Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.04831 Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude have experienced a meteoric rise in usage over the past three years because they can help you with a wide range of tasks. Whether you're writing Shakespearean sonnets, debugging code, or need an answer to an obscure trivia question, artificial intelligence (AI) systems seem to have you covered. The source of this versatility? Billions or even trillions of textual data poi

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, takes his seat before a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington. Credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon If the future of the internet looks like a constant stream of amusing videos generated by artificial intelligence, then OpenAI just placed its stake in an emerging market. The company behind ChatGPT released its new Sora social

Getty / Futurism An Anthropic researcher just announced his resignation in a cryptic and poetry-laden letter warning of a world “in peril.” The employee, Mrinank Sharma, had led the Claude chatbot maker’s Safeguards Research Team since it was formed early last year and has been at the company since 2023. While at the company, Sharma said he explored the causes of AI sycophancy, developed defenses against “AI-assisted bioterrorism,” and wrote “one of the fi

This week, Axios obtained a memo written by the National Republican Senatorial Committee that talks about the party’s struggle in Ohio as the Democrats use AI data centers against the Republican candidate. At first glance, it’s a straightforward warning that data center construction could make Republicans who support them vulnerable to attack. But if you read between the lines, there’s a more interesting dynamic at play. The GOP seems to be signalling that