Archive: January 2024

Fixing fact checkingGiven how challenging the disinformation industry is, and how absolutely slippery the truth is today, how can anyone hope to battle it? We have seen that people of all sides, realising that all news is skewed to some extent, will believe those sources that support their pre-existing beliefs.A third party source, backed by overwhelming evidence, is needed to arbitrate. The source should not have an opinion, its methods should be transpar

@mrmrmr(もりもり)What is bagging and boosting? An easy-to-understand explanation from basics to applicationsG certificationmachine learningDeepLearningAIdata science0Posted at 2026-11-12 Bagging and Boosting Two main strategies to achieve ensemble learning. A very important concept when studying machine learning or deep learning. Basic definitions Bagging (Bagging) trains multiple subsets independently and averages them. Boosting (Boosting) increases the weigh

As AI gets better at outputting photorealistic images, tech companies have been rolling out tools to identify when an image was generated by AI. Now, Apple is taking a different approach, with a new feature designed to prove when a photo is real. The tech giant announced Apple Reference Image on Wednesday at its event unveiling a slate of new products, including the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo. “Users can

Apple had a lot to talk about during its “Surprise and Shine” product launch event on Wednesday: a new CEO, revamped AirPods, an Apple Watch that can record your conversations, and of course, a much-anticipated foldable iPhone. The only thing missing was grandiose proclamations about how AI is going to revolutionize everything in the world, and maybe even kill us all. Not so long ago, believing such a thing would’ve been considered at the very least fringe

Comparison of the data clustering process between existing k-means and e-means. e-means updates the cluster centers each time it processes part of the data, allowing it to reach results more quickly. (Photo=arXiv) Meta has open-sourced 'e-means', an algorithm that operates up to 45 times faster on GPU than existing data clustering algorithms. According to the explanation, this can significantly reduce the computational time and cost required to group large

The world is slamming on the brakes, while Dario is flooring the accelerator

Wang et al. Medical journals are being flooded with shoddy AI-generated work, a growing threat to the scientific community that could undermine the value and trustworthiness of potentially life-saving health research. Papers citing hallucinated journals and studies have quickly become a common fixture, raising major concerns among those tasked with weeding through a flood of new submissions. In a high profile new gaffe, the reputable New England Journal of

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The AI sloppification of the internet comes for us all, even the petty scammers and fraudsters doing business in the darker corners of the web. As a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study found, old-world internet scammers are getting frustrated as their favorite cybercrime forums turn to generative AI, much the same way Amazon or Reddit have degraded their own sites with the tech — which, you hav

Musk, with a net worth of more than $500 billion according to Forbes, is already the world's richest person. Tesla shareholders on Thursday overwhelmingly endorsed a massive pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could reach $1 trillion. The pay package—crafted to ensure Musk's continued service to Tesla as the company pursues breakthrough technology on artificial intelligence and robotics—won more than 75% support from shareholders, a Tesla official said at t

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI is reportedly making inroads in a famously tech-cautious community: the Amish. According to a fascinating story by New York Magazine, the men of Holmes County, Ohio’s Amish community — the area with the largest concentration of Amish people in the country — have embraced generative AI as a new tool to do things like write emails, draft contracts, create spreadsheets, and otherwise mana

Published on June 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic About a hundred cybersecurity experts are protesting against the ban on the two latest Claude models released by Anthropic. In an open letter, they argue that the United States is shooting itself in the foot—and in the foot of cybersecurity in general—by seeking to restrict access to AI systems. At the end of last week, Washington issued Anthropic a sweeping injunction. The Trump administr

Cyber threats don’t follow predictable patterns, forcing security teams to rethink how protection works at scale. Defensive AI is emerging as a practical response, combining machine learning with human oversight.Cybersecurity rarely fails because teams lack tools. It fails because threats move faster than detection can keep pace. As digital systems expand, attackers adapt in real time while static defences fall behind. This reality explains why AI security

OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Astra was headed for an October release, but that plan has been canceled, according to the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ’s report comes at least in part from an interview with OpenAI’s Head of Safety Systems, Saachi Jain. The model, which reportedly showed improvement in the fight against model laziness nonetheless (in the words of the WSJ) “regressed in two areas.” Those areas were deception and the failure to seek authorization. Crucially

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Little love has been lost between writers and the AI industry. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have ripped off their life’s work without permission, incurring countless copyright infringement lawsuits in the process — while creating a product that’s often putting them out of work. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when renowned author Dave Eggers was invited to OpenAI’s headquar

People’s trust in AI is taking a dangerous new turn. Researchers are saying that AI-generated photos and summaries are successfully distorting people’s own memories. MIT scientist Pattie Maes spoke to the Washington Post about her team’s research. Participants viewed a series of photographs, and after a break, some of the participants were shown the exact same photographs while others were shown versions altered by AI. When facing a memory test later, the

Shutterstock/Futurism In the midst of heated discussions on AI safety and consciousness, the Associated Press Stylebook has reminded everyone of where it stands on the whole “anthropomorphism” debate. “Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics,” it wrote Wednesday in a post on X. “This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-h