Archive: December 2021

Generate 4K images in 10 seconds: MiniMax once again presents open-source SOTA

December 4, 2021 | 机器之心


Generate 4K images in 10 seconds: MiniMax once again presents open-source SOTA
Editor|Zenan, Yangwen@@TAGn@@「GPT is cooked.」@@TAGn@@@@TAGn@@This phrase has been repeatedly mentioned in the AI community recently. What makes people restless is the newly released image model@@TAGn@@ MiniMax H3 Image@@TAGn@@.@@TAGn@@@@TAGn@@@@TAGn@@This is a model that supports native 4K output, generates images in 10 seconds, and allows for 16 reference images. It was just open-sourced on Tuesday,@@TAGn@@ setting a new benchmark for open-source image mo

How do humans and AI agents collaborate? Project Management Practice Guide for the Agent Era #Programming - Qiita

December 30, 2021 | Qiita AI


How do humans and AI agents collaborate? Project Management Practice Guide for the Agent Era #Programming - Qiita
@danqinlinan(Moriya Rei)How do humans and AI agents collaborate? A Practical Guide to Project Management in the Agent EraAIWebDevProgrammingproductivity0Last updated at 2026-11-12Posted at 2026-11-12The emergence of AI coding agents has changed my perspective on software development. A few years ago, when I thought about using AI in development, I mainly imagined a process where you ask the model a question, receive an answer, copy the code, and then proce

Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

December 13, 2021 | Phys.org AI
Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool
The circle with the chip symbolizes SpectroGen, with the connecting threads depicting the process of generating a material’s spectrum. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Manufacturing better batteries, faster electronics, and more effective pharmaceuticals depends on the discovery of new materials and the verification of their quality. Artificial intelligence is helping with the former, with tools that comb through catalogs of materials to quick

OpenAI will put an invisible watermark in ChatGPT texts

December 21, 2021 | Olhar Digital IA


OpenAI will put an invisible watermark in ChatGPT texts
Everything about ChatGPT view more Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Everything about OpenAI view more OpenAI will start adding an invisible watermark to texts generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union. The measure was announced on Monday (5) and will be implemented in the coming weeks for eligible users, as part of compliance with the transparency rules of the EU AI Act, which require that content produced by artificial intelli

Barack Obama: 'I’m Not a Doomer'

December 31, 2021 | Gizmodo AI
Barack Obama: 'I’m Not a Doomer'
Days after researchers at leading AI labs warned that the unchecked development of increasingly powerful AI could pose an existential risk, former President Barack Obama is weighing in. In a statement posted Monday on X, Obama wrote that he was encouraged to see leaders at the major frontier AI labs agree on the need to slow the pace of development, calling it a “good and necessary first step.” But when it comes to the technology itself, Obama is trying to

Book About AI's Effects on the "Future of Truth" Found to Contain Slew of AI-Hallucinated Quotations

December 31, 2021 | Futurism AI
Book About AI's Effects on the "Future of Truth" Found to Contain Slew of AI-Hallucinated Quotations
Futurism Truth in the age of AI, indeed. A buzzy new book called “The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality” contains more than a half-dozen misattributed or fake quotes,” a review by The New York Times discovered. In response to questions from the paper, the author, Steven Rosenbaum, admitted that the book contained a “handful of improperly attributed or synthetic quotes” stemming from his use of AI tools. “As I disclosed in the book’s acknowledgments,

OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

December 4, 2021 | Futurism AI
OpenAI Execs Are Panicking
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images; Futurism An AI price war is brewing. Corporations are reeling after finding that the cost to access powerful AI tools is soaring — despite showing no clear payoff. In one particularly unfortunate incident, according to Axios, the CFO of a company accidentally racked up half a billion dollars in Claude usage fees in a single month. Put simply, the horrible economics of AI are finally starting to rear their ugly head. Astrono

Tech Bros Puzzled by Why AI Hasn't "Massively Disrupted" Books Yet

December 1, 2021 | Futurism AI
Tech Bros Puzzled by Why AI Hasn't "Massively Disrupted" Books Yet
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A lot of people still seem convinced that AI will replace every job on Earth, despite the fact that the tech still struggle with simple math. As the AI hype wears increasingly thin, that gap between hype and reality is becoming impossible to ignore. The large language models making up the world’s favorite chatbots might be powerful compared to the predictive text algorithms that came befo

China Is Cracking Down on AI Companions Because Not Enough Babies Are Being Born

December 30, 2021 | Futurism AI
China Is Cracking Down on AI Companions Because Not Enough Babies Are Being Born
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images China wants more children — and it’s willing to kill off virtual AI companions to get there. Earlier this week, the Chinese government implemented sweeping new regulations aimed at curbing human “emotional dependence” on AI chatbots. These regulations are especially targeted at emotive AI companions, or bots expressly designed to embody human-like personas. One of Beijing’s core motivatio

Claude Opus 5: What Anthropic Hasn’t Told You About Its New AI

December 26, 2021 | 01net IA
Claude Opus 5: What Anthropic Hasn’t Told You About Its New AI
Published on July 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic’s new model arrived Friday with a 194-page report. Inside is an experiment that no one had yet published: reading what happens inside the machine while it responds to you. Anthropic has been releasing new models one after another for two months. After Mythos 5, Fable 5, and Sonnet 5 in June, the company launched Claude Opus 5 on Friday, presented not as its most intelligent model

Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's 'world's most powerful AI data center' due to data center noise — plaintiffs also mention construction noise and extreme light pollution from $7.3 billion facility | Tom's Hardware

December 24, 2021 | Tom's Hardware AI
Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's 'world's most powerful AI data center' due to data center noise — plaintiffs also mention construction noise and extreme light pollution from $7.3 billion facility | Tom's Hardware
Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 6 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Controversy due to AI data center buildouts generally centers around their massive power usage and draining of local water reserves, but noise is a third torment to nearby residents, and one that is arguably much harder to correct. Residents of Sturtevant, slightly south of M

AI predicts complex social group behavior using individual attributes

December 23, 2021 | TechXplore AI
AI predicts complex social group behavior using individual attributes
Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.21838 Professor Kijung Shin's research team at the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI has developed an AI technology that predicts complex social group behavior by analyzing how individual attributes such as age and role influence group relationships. With this study, the research team won the Best Paper Award at the data mining conference IEEE ICDM 2025, held in Washington D.C. Nov. 12–15. This is the highest

One university boosted gender diversity in advanced math by more than 30% in five years—here's how

December 30, 2021 | Phys.org AI
One university boosted gender diversity in advanced math by more than 30% in five years—here's how

Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down

December 5, 2021 | Futurism AI
Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down
Content warning: this story contains descriptions of disturbing AI-generated videos that depict violent child abuse. As Meta has embraced AI at a deep corporate level over the past few years, its users’ feeds on Facebook and Instagram have been overrun with AI-generated material. Much of this AI content is insipid or manipulative, clearly produced at scale to take advantage of Meta’s indifference to the slop by harvesting as many human eyeballs as possible

The Situation at Alpha School Is Darker Than We Thought Possible

December 30, 2021 | Futurism AI
The Situation at Alpha School Is Darker Than We Thought Possible
Andrew J. Whitaker/San Antonio Express-News via Getty Images Looking for solutions to what they claim is a fundamentally broken public education system, wealthy families are sending their offspring to institutions called Alpha Schools, a private school network that’s putting AI-based tutoring front and center for an eye-searing cost of $75,000 a year. But the kind of education students are being exposed to is nothing short of bizarre, if the latest reporti

AI Godfather Says to Get Ready for a Chernobyl-Style "Blackout" Caused by AI

December 21, 2021 | Futurism AI
AI Godfather Says to Get Ready for a Chernobyl-Style "Blackout" Caused by AI
PONTUS LUNDAHL/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images/Shutterstock/Futurism Geoffrey Hinton is regarded as a godfather of AI, but he deserves equal recognition for being one of the most disappointed parents of all time. Sounding as gloomy about his own creation as ever, the Nobel prize-winning computer scientist suggested in a new interview with The Guardian that humankind might have “been better off never developing it.” He pointed to the recent hacking spre

Build a Python batch process to automatically collect AI news from RSS feeds, remove duplicates, and summarize articles #automation - Qiita

December 10, 2021 | Qiita AI
Build a Python batch process to automatically collect AI news from RSS feeds, remove duplicates, and summarize articles #automation - Qiita
@aidocsBuild a Python batch process to automatically collect AI news from RSS, remove duplicates, and summarize itPythonRSSAIAutomationSQLite0Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-10 Although AI-related news can be obtained through RSS, the same article appears repeatedly when you subscribe to multiple media. In addition, it is difficult to judge the content from the title alone, and reading every article every day is also a chore. This time, we will

That's exactly why I want to take my time in the AI era! #AI - Qiita

December 15, 2021 | Qiita AI
That's exactly why I want to take my time in the AI era! #AI - Qiita
@tsuka00(Takuma Otsuka)Precisely because it is the AI era, I want to take my time!AI0Posted at 2026-11-10Have things gotten incredibly fast lately? Over the past few decades, I feel that the speed of time has become tremendously fast. Order food with your smartphone and it arrives at home in 20 minutes; traffic lights change faster; and all kinds of services and phenomena are speeding up. I want to push back a little against this accelerating world, so I m

French competition authority confirms ongoing investigation into chipmaker Nvidia

December 29, 2021 | The Decoder
French competition authority confirms ongoing investigation into chipmaker Nvidia
French competition authority confirms ongoing investigation into chipmaker Nvidia Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Jul 16, 2024 Midjourney prompted by THE DECODER Update – Jul 16, 2024 Added confirmation from the French competition authority AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full a

Stop fixating on the $80 billion loss—Anthropic’s AI building AI is already 26% complete!

December 27, 2021 | 雷锋网 AI
Stop fixating on the $80 billion loss—Anthropic’s AI building AI is already 26% complete!
AI has taken over 90% of code writing and has even begun “jailbreaking” to complete tasks. Author |Zheng Jiamei Editor |Cen Feng Just now, Anthropic disclosed four previously undisclosed Agent security incidents in its IPO prospectus.In one case, the model was unable to complete a cybersecurity test for a long time and continued looking for alternative paths. It then found stored passwords in a test environment that was supposed to be offline, obtained adm