Archive: June 2023

Here’s a rare news event that hasn’t occurred in, gosh, a week: a university commencement speech was greeted with hostility because the speaker praised AI. 404 Media got the footage: In fairness, the speaker, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt was at least trying to thread the needle, vaguely empathizing with students. “There is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the

Illustration of diffractive waveguides. Credit: Ozcan Lab / UCLA. A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a novel framework for designing and creating universal diffractive waveguides that can control the flow of light in highly specific and complex ways. This new technology uses artificial intelligence (AI), specifically deep learning, to design a series of structured surfaces that guide light with high eff

Virginia Lottery A Virginia woman won big at the Powerball lottery — using numbers picked by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to The New York Post, in a story that’s only possible in the 21st Century. “I’m like, ChatGPT, talk to me… Do you have numbers for me?” said Carrie Edwards, remembering how she requested the AI bot for help, during a press conference last week, as reported by the NY Post. A few days later, the widow from Virginia got a phone notification

Nearly two months since the release of GPT-5, an update to ChatGPT that was supposed to give it “PhD level” intelligence and bring it once step closer to the industry’s vaunted goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI), the OpenAI chatbot is still going bizarrely haywire over simple and completely innocuous inquiries. On the ChatGPT subreddit, fans of the AI bot noticed that asking it if there’s an “NFL team whose name doesn’t end with the letter ‘s'”

With around 400 million parameters, DolphinGemma is optimised to run efficiently, even on the Google Pixel smartphones WDP uses for data collection in the field.As WDP begins deploying the model this season, it promises to accelerate research significantly. By automatically flagging patterns and reliable sequences previously requiring immense human effort to find, it can help researchers uncover hidden structures and potential meanings within the dolphins’

TikTok / Futurism AI-powered deepfake tech has come a very long way. Unsurprisingly, teens have been using the tech to prank their friends and family. The latest hoax involves kids sending their parents AI-manipulated pictures of them welcoming homeless men into their houses — prompting widespread alarm and even 911 calls, as NBC News reports. This new AI homeless man trend is fantastic had to get my wee sister to try persuade her not to actually call the

Getty / Futurism Artificial intelligence isn’t just coming for human actors’ jobs — even our favorite furry celebrities are struggling to find work in Hollywood. As The Hollywood Reporter points out, studios are starting to push AI and CGI hard to create animal performances in post-production, instead of bringing real animals to the set. One dog actor identified by THR, called Rocco, who appeared on shows like “The Morning Show” and “Veronica Mars,” is rep

Virtual Staining of Label-Free Tissue in Imaging Mass Spectrometry. Credit: Ozcan Lab / UCLA An international team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Vanderbilt University, and Delft University of Technology has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method that virtually stains images generated through imaging mass spectrometry (IMS). The research is published in the journal Science Advances. This collaborative effort

Mariano Regidor/Redferns Acclaimed Australian prog rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard made headlines earlier this year when it quit Spotify, protesting the platform’s CEO, Daniel Ek, who heavily invested in an AI weapons company. The band was one of several music acts to pull their music from Spotify over ethical concerns. Many of them have taken issue with artists earning very little money per stream on the platform, or the company donating a siza

Elon Musk’s SpaceX spent an eye-watering $18.4 billion in its first quarter as a publicly traded company and warned investors to expect similarly high spending in the next two financial quarters, sending the stock price down more than 8% in late trading on Tuesday evening. A whopping $15.8 billion of that spending was to power its artificial intelligence efforts, a division that ended the quarter with a $1.3 billion net operating loss. The figure comes fro

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Ashley MacIsaac Who needs vicious music columnists when you live in the age of AI? Apparently not Ashley MacIsaac, a Canadian fiddler, singer, and songwriter who was labeled a sex criminal by Google’s AI overview. According to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, event organizers at the Sipekne’katik First Nation, north of Halifax, canceled an upcoming performance featuring MacIsaac after Google

Credit: AI-generated image Tech investment giant SoftBank Group said Wednesday it will buy Swiss-Swedish firm ABB Robotics for nearly $5.4 billion as part of its plans to bring artificial intelligence into the physical realm. ABB Robotics specializes in industrial robots, such as large robotic arms that can make precise movements in factories. Japan's SoftBank—a major investor in ChatGPT creator OpenAI—said the acquisition was part of its AI-focused busine

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Getty / Futurism AI companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into enormous infrastructure projects, fully expecting demand for their services to spike in the coming years to justify their outsize investments. Reality, however, continues to have a lot of catching up to do. Revenues are still being dwarfed by astronomical capital expenditures as the gulf between the tech industry’s lofty promises of an AI utopia and what the tech is actuall