Archive: October 2024

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Chip giant Micron Technology on Thursday said it was expanding its domestic investment plan to $200 billion as it seeks to boost US semiconductor manufacturing, with the backing of the Trump administration. The move, aimed at strengthening America's domestic chip supply chain, represents an additional $30 billion beyond Micron's previous investment commitments and includes plans to build a second leading-edge memory fabri

In the three months since its release, ChatGPT’s ability to generate humanlike, coherent and informative responses to a broad range of questions has evolved the OpenAI conversational large language model (LLM) from a curiosity into a magnet for public discussions regarding AI’s pros and cons. While there have been plenty of accolades, there are also serious concerns — particularly regarding ChatGPT’s occasional generation of misleading or factually incorre

Surgie, a humanoid medical robot, is about to give an ultrasound to a patient. Credit: David Baillot/University of California San Diego As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burned out, and surgeries take longer to schedule and more get canceled, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. That's the argument that UC San Diego robotics expert Michael Yip makes in a perspective piece in Science Robotics. Today's surgical robots are costly pieces

Perceptions of attractiveness can influence how customers judge their server's likeability and competence, a study conducted by an Ole Miss doctoral graduate and colleagues indicates. The perceptions vary by gender and can affect performance evaluations, tips and even promotions. Credit: Jordan Thweatt/University Marketing and Communications Have you ever found yourself thinking a server, salesperson or customer service employee was especially attractive,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It’s probably not a shock to you that the people leading the AI industry don’t have your best interests at heart. But what if we told you that some of them are actually pretty okay with humanity being subjugated, replaced, or wiped out, by the machines they’re creating? In an essay for the Wall Street Journal, author David A. Price calls the tech figures in this camp the “cheerful apocaly

Design of IDR binding proteins.Design pipeline and 12 representative examples of active designs (for each panel, the target name is at left and the target sequence is at the bottom; targets are tan and binders are blue in the structure models. Interface residues are shown as sticks). Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adr8063 Scientists have discovered a new way to advance drug discovery and diagnostics by targeting a part of the proteome (the co

Getty / Futurism Parents are turning to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in increasing numbers for child rearing advice — and the results of that uncontrolled experiment are anyone’s guess. They’re asking ChatGPT how to handle behavioral problems or for medical advice when their kids are sick, USA Today reports, which dovetails with a 2024 study that found parents trust ChatGPT over real health professionals and also deem the information generated by the bot to be trustwo

Fluorescently tagged neural molecule imaged in a living tadpole, with colors representing imaging depth. The brain and spinal nerves appear near the top in turquoise to purple, the path of peripheral nerves is visible throughout the tadpole. Credit: Taiyo Yamamoto, University of Zurich A research team headed by the University of Zurich has developed a powerful new method to precisely edit DNA by combining cutting-edge genetic engineering with artificial in

Getty / Futurism For years now, AI companies, including Google, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, have insisted that their large language models aren’t technically storing copyrighted works in their memory and instead “learn” from their training data like a human mind. It’s a carefully worded distinction that’s been integral to their attempts to defend themselves against a rapidly growing barrage of legal challenges. It also cuts to the core of copyright law it

Michael Buckner/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images For years now, actors have rung the alarm bells over the AI industry planning to sell their likeness and voices — either with or without their consent — and hence threatening to put them out of work. Beyond a major 2023 strike by Hollywood actors fueled by these concerns, we’ve already seen actors take matters into their own hands, like when Scarlett Johansson threatened to sue OpenAI over a Chat

Published on March 3, 2026 at 10:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net The future Siri, which was supposed to start appearing in iOS 26.4, relies on Google's AI models. But it's not the only web giant's technology that the apple company needs. It should also entrust the hosting of the new assistant to Google servers, but configured according to Apple's data protection standards. In June 2024, Apple presented the new Siri, an AI-powered assistant capable of searchin

The general producer of the hackathon was Irakli Tsarukyan. In the AI production, Denis Mishchenko from SKILLOUT and VidMK participated. And Nikita Stepanov, the AI creator, turned our ideas into a script during the discussion.First, Nikita fixed the mentor's appearance so that the audience would recognize the same person in each scene. Then he selected location references, generated scenes using GROM, and in Workflow, he combined them with the narrator's

X / Futurism Text-to-video generating tools have made tremendous leaps in a few short years. We went from a horrifying clip of actor Will Smith’s contorted face temporarily merging with a bowl of spaghetti in 2023 to a far more realistic clip of him enjoying a plate of pasta — including a soundtrack of unnerving squelching and chomping sounds — a mere two years later. Now, TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance has once again upped the ante with the latest versi

Credit: Michelangelo Buonarroti from Pexels The race to build the metaverse—a vast digital realm where virtual and physical worlds merge—is already becoming a global power struggle. According to new research from the University of Amsterdam, the United States, China, and the European Union are each charting their own course toward this "new internet," revealing starkly different political and economic visions of our digital future. The study is published i

Credit: INAM-UJI of Castelló A team from the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has developed an innovative robotic platform, powered by artificial intelligence, that promises to revolutionize the design of sustainable chemical processes. The system, named Reac-Discovery, makes it possible to optimize in just a few days what previously could take months or even years of work in a traditional laboratory, thanks to its high level of integration and automation. Chemis