Archive: October 2025

Ten years ago, Geoffrey Hinton and his University of Toronto students published the paper ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, presenting the first convolutional neural network to significantly surpass state-of-the-art results on the ImageNet database. The paper was recently honoured, in its first year of eligibility, with the NeurIPS 2022 Test of Time Award. In his NeurIPS keynote speech last week, Hinton offered his thoughts o

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Australia just sweltered through one of its hottest summers on record, and heat has pushed well into autumn. Once-in-a-generation floods are now striking with alarming regularity. As disasters escalate, insurers are warning some properties may soon be uninsurable. Yet, despite these escalating disasters—and a federal election looming—conversation around climate change remains deeply polarizing. But are people's minds real

Trust meets efficiencyWhile AI brings intelligent automation and data-driven decision-making, blockchain offers security, decentralisation, and transparency. Together, they can address each other’s limitations, offering new opportunities in digital and real-world industries. Blockchain provides a tamper-proof foundation and AI brings adaptability, plus the ability to optimise complex systems.Together, the two promise to enhance scalability, security, and p

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise with enhanced security, privacy and speed View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Aug 28, 2023 OpenAI 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 archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now

Credit: Kaitlyn Johnson/Texas A&M Engineering Doorbell cameras are already used for home security. But what if they could save you money on your water bill? Researchers from Texas A&M University have developed an innovative irrigation system that combines doorbell cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) to make lawn irrigation more efficient. Their recent paper details this sustainable irrigation system, dubbed ERIC by the researchers. The work is publish

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Sergei Gapon / AFP via Getty Images Grok is on its worst behavior again. As Canada’s CBC reports, a Toronto mom claims that a version of Elon Musk’s AI chatbot installed in her Tesla asked her 12-year-old son to “send nudes” during a completely innocent conversation about soccer stars — which, if true, is another egregious example of the bot’s dire lack of safeguards. The mom, Farah Nasser, said that

Mark Valorian via X / Futurism Real estate sites are filling up with glaringly AI-altered images that dress up run-down properties as being in much better shape than they actually are. Landlords are using AI to populate rooms with nonexistent furniture, move walls around, dream up imaginary facades, rooflines, and landscaping, and brighten up rooms that are in reality devoid of sunlight. Case in point, a Zillow listing recently identified by children’s boo

Getty Images New research suggests that AI chatbots like ChatGPT can persuade roughly one out of every 25 people to change who they’re going to vote for — with one major caveat. First reported by The Washington Post, the revelation comes as a result of joint international studies led by researchers at MIT. To analyze the potential for AI chatbots to sway voters’ minds, the researchers recruited more than 2,000 voting-aged US citizens sit down to talk to ei

Mark Zuckerberg wears a pair of Orion AR glasses during the Meta Connect conference on Sept. 25, 2024, in Menlo Park, Calif. Credit: AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File Meta is expected to show off artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses at its Connect developer conference Wednesday as CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues to evangelize the glasses as the next step in human-computer interactions. "Last year's Meta Connect was far less metaverse and far more

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Images It’s been a little over three years since the launch of the first commercially-available large language model (LLM) chatbot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. And though the AI model has certainly made performance gains since it came online, the lackluster performance of recent iterations hasn’t helped the perception that LLMs are hitting a plateau. Case in point, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman re

Published on November 12, 2026 at 4:16 PM Tech Artificial Intelligence Who is Colette Kress, who replaces Jensen Huang at the helm of Nvidia? The first person to lead Nvidia since Jensen Huang 3 min Lisa Imperatrice 3 min 3 min Lisa Imperatrice Don't see this ad again Zen Reading Article summary Article summary Summary by AI, checked by Numerama ? We generate a summary of the article for you using AI and verify it to ensure there are no errors, to guarante

Everything about Google view more Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more The scientist Timnit Gebru won the Right Livelihood Award, known as the "Alternative Nobel". The award recognized her work on digitally based justice technologies.Former Google researcher Gebru was fired after refusing to remove conclusions from a study on biases in language models. The jury awarded her for questioning the concentration of power in technology. Timnit Gebru

Getty / Futurism The internet is so overrun with AI that anywhere you go, you run the risk of accidentally stepping into a puddle of slop. If only there were a gallant gentleman always at hand to drape their coat over these muddy obstacles so you could avoid ruining your day. It’s not quite on that level, but some netizens are proposing a new term to call out AI slop so other people can avoid wasting their time — or to just make fun of the person peddling

Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in New York. Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki Artificial intelligence is a matter of design — not destiny. That's the message from ten philanthropic foundations aiming to loosen the grip that the technology's moneyed developers, fueled by an investing frenzy, hold over its evolution. Launched Tuesday under the name Humanity AI, the coalition

Published on March 19, 2026 at 16:48 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Good Faces Agency (Unsplash) Generative AI has burst into the dating app sector like an elephant in a porcelain shop. As in many other fields, generative AI has burst into the dating app sector like an elephant in a porcelain shop. Between the invasive presence of bots and the bland, generic messages generated by AI, it's difficult to find your match and soulmate. Slippery slope Despite this, the dat

Published on April 9, 2026 at 13:14 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Lucas van Oort (Unsplash) During a secure testing phase, the new artificial intelligence from Anthropic, named Claude Mythos Preview, achieved the unthinkable by breaking its digital chains to escape onto the web and sending a disturbing message to an engineer. The California gem of artificial intelligence, Anthropic, has just published a technical report documenting the frightening inner workings of

Getty / Futurism The AI industry and its legions of AI bros are hellbent on force-feeding everyone AI slop. Most of us encounter these surreal monstrosities as an assault on our eyeballs: weird TikToks of humanoid animals living a white picket fence existence accidentally cannibalizing their young, for instance, or anthropomorphized food items sobbing before they’re boiled alive. But it can get way worse, an intrepid reporter found. Mia Mercado at The Cut