Archive: November 2021

Dishes piling up? Trash well past the brim of the can? That thin layer of dust on your furniture starting to stratify? Well, if you’re in New York City and open to unusual propositions, there’s a company willing to take care of those and other unresolved house cleaning tasks you might have, all for free. The catch: you let the cleaners record the entire process inside your home from the cameras affixed to their “magic hats” to help train AI. The German sta

The team summarizes the proposed DeepSpeed-Chat with the following three capabilities : Easy-to-use Training and Inference Experience for ChatGPT Like Models. DeepSpeed-RLHF Pipeline that replicates the training pipeline from the InstructGPT paper with careful attention to ensure completeness and one-to-one correspondence. DeepSpeed-RLHF System that combines the training and inference prowess of DeepSpeed into single unified Hybrid Engine (DeepSpeedHE) for

The personal information of thousands of Uber drivers has been compromised by hackers. The ride-hailing company recently filed security breach notices with several state attorneys general detailing the incident. According to a notice dated Nov. 10 filed with California’s attorney general, a third-party service provider notified Uber on October 9 that hackers had stolen its internal credentials and used them to access Uber’s account with the provider. On Oc

What is intelligent document processing & how does AI improve fraud detection?The amount of documents, invoices, receipts, and identity records businesses process has skyrocketed. However, manual document handling and traditional fraud detection methods struggle to keep up with the increasing volume and complexity of fraud attempts. This is where intelligent document processing comes in.What is intelligent document processing?Intelligent document processin

At the BitSummit expo in Kyoto, indie designers touted their games. Players line up inside Nintendo's booth at a Japanese game fair to try upcoming Switch 2 titles, but, for once, the company's chirpy red-capped mascot Mario is nowhere to be seen. The three games on display are all made by smaller-scale, independent developers seeking to impress users of the device that became the world's fastest-selling console after its launch last month. But with Ninten

Last year, ARC Prize 2024 saw 1,500 competitor teams, resulting in 40 papers of acclaimed industry influence. This year’s increased stakes aim to nurture even greater success.ARC Prize believes progress hinges on novel ideas rather than merely scaling existing systems. The next breakthrough in efficient general systems might not originate from current tech giants but from bold, creative researchers embracing complexity and curious experimentation.(Image cr

Cloudflare bets you’re overpaying an LLM to read your invoices Cloudflare released a preview of Clairic, an extraction model that pulls typed values out of messy text and images in one pass without generating tokens. In Cloudflare’s test on a damaged-product support claim, a pipeline built around Clairic finished in 19.3 seconds, against 61.7 seconds for a version that used an LLM at every step, and cost 49% less. Clairic goes after a job developers routin

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Last week, researchers at the Public Interest Research Group published an alarming report in which they found that an AI-powered teddy bear from the children’s toymaker FoloToy was giving out instructions on how to light matches, and even waxing lyrical about the ins-and-outs of various sexual fetishes. Now OpenAI, whose model GPT-4o was used to power the toy, is pulling the plug. On Frid

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the creation of sophisticated agentic systems that utilize tools and APIs to answer user queries through function calling. However, deploying these models on edge devices remains largely unexplored due to their significant size and high computational requirements, which generally necessitate cloud-based infrastructure. In a new paper TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge, a research team fr

GitHub Agentic Autofix and the question of who owns a bad AI patch In this Help Net Security interview, Marcelo Oliveira, VP of Product Management at GitHub, talks about who is accountable when an AI-generated patch fixes one flaw and introduces another. He explains how Agentic Autofix re-runs detection engines and project tests, and what a CISO should change before pointing an agent at thousands of old alerts. Oliveira also discusses which metrics show a

To bring the vision of robot manipulators assisting with everyday activities in cluttered environments like living rooms, offices, and kitchens closer to reality, it’s essential to create robot policies that can generalize to new tasks in unfamiliar settings. In a new paper Gen2Act: Human Video Generation in Novel Scenarios enables Generalizable Robot Manipulation, a research team from Google DeepMind, Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University pre

Bruno de Carvalho/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images AI cloud computing company CoreWave exploded onto the scene in March with the biggest tech IPO since 2021. The company’s stock soared by more than 40 percent in the following days, riding on the coattails of immense hype surrounding generative AI. The hype was driven by insatiable AI companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta leasing hundreds of megawatts of compute as outfits like CoreWeave constr

Getty / Futurism From a young age, many children have been instructed by their parents to be polite to smart assistants. Particularly following the advent of Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, children are often encouraged to use words like “please” and “thank you,” with the hopes of instilling manners. But when it comes to AI assistants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, there might be some tangible benefits to being rude and even insulting them. As detailed in a yet-t

Published on February 19, 2026 at 18:04 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © 01net YouTube wants to chat. The platform is currently testing a Gemini button that allows viewers to ask questions about the content of a video. It remains to be seen whether this is a good idea or not… Without really realizing it, some people talk to their TV, often to berate it! YouTube wants to make this practice a bit more useful by testing a Gemini button on connected TVs, game consoles, a

Published on March 7, 2026 at 11:00 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © 01net If you were expecting to flap around at reading the naughty words of ChatGPT, you'll have to wait. The 'adult mode' announced by Sam Altman last October is still not available. Worse: it has been postponed to better days. OpenAI has implemented safeguards so that ChatGPT takes into account the emotional distress of some users. It's not always sufficient as the news has unfortunately reminded us,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images As Microsoft has aggressively pushed its Copilot AI, it’s logged more than a few high-profile errors. Copilot has been found hallucinating police reports, exposing secure passwords, and digesting confidential emails — prompting security fears as its use in corporate and government settings becomes more common. Dennis Xu, a research analyst at the firm Gartner, went as far as to suggest th