Archive: October 2023

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Honeybees are essential pollinators for agriculture and natural ecosystems. Stressors like climate change, habitat loss and pesticide exposure threaten their ability to forage for pollen, a critical resource for colony survival. Researchers in Environmental Science & Technology demonstrate that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based monitoring system combined with a computer model can link the exposure of neonicotinoid pes

Elon Musk’s Grok is easily the most controversial of the big AI chatbots. The trillionaire has tinkered with Grok in ways that have made it spout racist conspiracy theories, call itself MechaHitler, and generate non-consensual naked images of X users. There was even a period when Grok would praise Musk as smarter than Albert Einstein and more fit than LeBron James. With all of the recent controversies in mind, Gizmodo filed a Freedom of Information Act (FO

Are you badly fumbling the bag as a partner? Alternatively, are you staying in an obviously bad relationship with a thoughtless person who doesn’t seem to care about you? Finally, there’s an AI agent that will uphold your delusional belief that you can make it work. Meet Orchid AI. Based on its new ad and previous promotional content, Orchid AI appears to be an attempt to capture the thunder of the OpenClaw craze from earlier this year. Remember when a bun

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Credit: Vienna University of Technology Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly versatile—from route planning to text translation, it has long become a standard tool. But it is not enough for AI to simply deliver useful results: it is becoming ever more important that it also complies with legal, ethical, and social norms. But how can such norms be taught to a machine? At TU Wien, a new approach has now been developed. By combining machine learnin

SoniDo employs a generative architecture based on a multi-level transformer coupled with a hierarchical encoder. Through careful preprocessing, its intermediate representations are utilized as features for task-specific models across various music-related tasks, enhanced by data augmentation techniques. The model’s encoder design draws inspiration from Jukebox, but it distinguishes itself by incorporating a hierarchical structure. Using a framework called

AI Generated Image via Sam Altman / X Not using AI to pretend you have the hot bod of your dreams? Then clearly you’re not the CEO of a half-trillion-dollar AI company. On Tuesday, OpenAI head honcho Sam Altman posted a holiday themed simulacrum of himself as a hunky firefighter with chiseled abs. Christmas lights are dangled around his neck like a bandolier, while he stands in front of an oversaturated smear that’s supposed to represent a decorated living

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Amazon / Getty Images What if the biggest threat to your safety and privacy isn’t a person, but a device millions of Americans have installed in their homes willingly? That’s the contention of tech critics at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who say Amazon’s Ring doorbell devices constitute a “surveillance nightmare” — what they’re calling the largest civilian surveillance panopticon in the history

Iona Wolff / BAFTA via Getty Images / Futurism Disaster tends to strike when you let automated systems distribute news, especially on sensitive topics. The latest case in point: how Google’s automated news alerts accidentally ended up throwing more fuel onto an already hurtful racial slur controversy that unfolded at the BAFTA awards this weekend. As Deadline reported, Google pushed out a notification linking to an article with the headline, “How the Toure

UC Assistant Professor Sameh Eisa and his students developed a moth-like drone that navigates without AI using an extremum-seeking feedback system. Researchers say this system is extremely efficient and can be scaled down to tiny proportions. Credit: Michael Miller Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are developing a drone with flapping wings that can locate and hover around a moving light like a moth to a flame. UC College of Engineering and Appli

Published on April 6, 2026 at 07:57 Commenter 5 𝕏 Print © Kiwi Campus Graffiti, excrement, kicks: delivery robots are being systematically destroyed. And France has not yet seen a single one on its sidewalks. Starship Technologies, Kiwibot, Coco: delivery robot manufacturers are hitting a wall. Not technological, not regulatory. Human. Vandalism incidents are multiplying in the UK and the US, with material losses starting to weigh heavily on the accounts.

Mission impossible: Although observing the shape and movement of a barchan dune (crescent-shaped) allows us to infer wind direction and average intensity, calculating the resulting force on each grain of sand was considered impossible. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images. This method, which is based on numerical simulations and artificial int

Anna Bicker, Dr. Volker Zota, and Malte Kirchner discuss the following topics, among others, in this episode of #heiseshow: Continue reading after the ad Don't make an affair out of it: Will Jensen Huang become a problem for Nvidia? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an affair. The board is now investigating whether he was the target of a foreign intelligence operation. The woman is alleged to have worked for Megaspeed, a major Nvidia customer in Sing

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC; Shutterstock Meta’s controversial program that spied on its employees’ computers has backfired spectacularly. Though its chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth assured that the data it collected would be “tightly controlled,” the company is now pausing the tracking program after sensitive employee information was leaked internally, according to reports from Business Insider

By now, you’ve probably heard about a new AI-based password cracker that can compromise your password in seconds by using artificial intelligence instead of more traditional methods. Some outlets have called it “terrifying,” “worrying,” “alarming,” and “savvy.” Other publications have fallen over themselves to report that the tool can crack any password with up to seven characters—even if it has symbols and numbers—in under six minutes. As with so many thi

Our second AI panel of the day, featuring Georgetown University’s Drew Lohn (center) and Luta Security CEO Katie Moussouris (right). Skip to 3:01:12 if the link doesn’t take you directly there. Click here for a transcript of the session. The final panel of the day at our Frontiers conference this year was hosted by me—though it was going to be tough to follow Ars AI expert Benj Edwards’ panel because I didn’t have a cute intro planned. The topic we were co

Human Rights Watch (HRW) continues to reveal how photos of real children casually posted online years ago are being used to train AI models powering image generators—even when platforms prohibit scraping and families use strict privacy settings. Last month, HRW researcher Hye Jung Han found 170 photos of Brazilian kids that were linked in LAION-5B, a popular AI dataset built from Common Crawl snapshots of the public web. Now, she has released a second repo

@CodeNest_mediainHatch-IT Co., Ltd.The AI’s null fix allows even members: Finding a regression in a small diffJavaScriptAICode reviewTests0Posted at 2026-11-11“We’ve made it so it doesn’t crash even with null.” The fix returned by the AI was only a single line. Since passing null actually stopped producing an error, you would be inclined to merge it as is. However, the proposed fix in this example allows even regular users instead of removing the error.Eve

Published on September 18, 2026 at 12:45 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Entrusting your card to a stranger remains a bad idea. Entrusting it to an AI agent is becoming an official Mastercard product. The safeguards, however, still seem to have been written in pencil. Agentic payments, the future in which your digital assistant does your shopping for you, are slowly moving beyond professional settings and into the real world. After Visa, Mastercard is about to t

Jason Kempin/FilmMagic Almost a decade after his tragic passing, iconic comedian Robin Williams is being remembered in the worst way possible: by mind-numbing AI slop video tributes that gullible netizens are sharing with abandon on social media. His surviving daughter and film director Zelda Williams has been watching with dismay. “That supposedly ‘private video’ of dad that I’ve been shown talking about conspiracies is clearly AI, and not even particular