Google builds AI animal recognition tool
TCD: “A new artificial intelligence model could make it significantly easier for researchers to track and monitor wildlife across the globe.” “Google recently released SpeciesNet, an open-source AI that can...
Read MoreMinecraft developer rejects AI
“It seems like you don’t need to worry about generative AI (artificial intelligence) worming its way into the hit open-world survival game Minecraft.” reports TechRadar. “According to IGN, Minecraft Vanilla...
Read MoreZuckerberg approved illegally downloading material to train Llama
Futurism: “In January, Meta lost a huge fight with a group of authors who sued the company for using their books to train its AI. The case uncovered the fact...
Read MoreAI is better than humans at making meme captions
“A new study examining meme creation found that AI-generated meme captions on existing famous meme images scored higher on average for humor, creativity, and ‘shareability’ than those made by people....
Read MoreOpenAI researcher thinks AI could have arrived decades ago
“Noam Brown, who leads AI reasoning research at OpenAI, says certain forms of ‘reasoning’ AI models could’ve arrived 20 years earlier had researchers ‘known [the right] approach’ and algorithms.” reports...
Read MoreFully AI-generated newspaper turns out to be horrific
“The image reeks of generative artificial intelligence. The warped, watercolor-esque style. Reuters spelled ‘Redutrs’ and El País with an accent over the wrong letter.” writes Alex Mahadevan, at Poynter. “It’s...
Read MoreAI is ‘Alien Intelligence’ – Harvard Professor
Popular Mechanics: “The human brain is a marvel of neurons firing electrical impulses through complex networks of neural pathways. It can also be notoriously slow when it comes to figuring...
Read MoreCloudflare’s AI Labyrinth diverts bots to nonsense honeypot
“Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data...
Read MorePeople are using Grok for fact-checking
TechCrunch: “Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to Musk’s AI bot Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could fuel misinformation.”
Read MoreUK tech secretary uses ChatGPT as an advisor
“The UK’s technology secretary, Peter Kyle, has asked ChatGPT for advice on why the adoption of artificial intelligence is so slow in the UK business community – and which podcasts...
Read MoreSweden’s government wants police to use AI face-recognition
Reuters: “Swedish police should be allowed to use real-time, AI-powered face-recognition to combat crime, Sweden’s government proposed on Thursday, as it seeks new tools to stop sometimes violent offences rocking...
Read MoreStudio Ghibli and fans disgusted by OpenAI’s new image generator
Forbes: “The launch of OpenAI’s new image generator, powered by GPT-4o, has flooded the internet with Studio Ghibli-inspired images in a trend that, ironically, goes directly against the ethos of...
Read MoreNatWest teams up with OpenAI to improve customer service
“NatWest (NWG.L), opens new tab and OpenAI have joined forces to enhance the lender’s digital assistants and customer support processes using artificial intelligence, in the first collaboration of its kind...
Read MoreNintendo wants to stay original by rejecting AI
Creative Bloq: Amid the growing AI art trend, Nintendo stands apart. While other household names embrace the use of AI to enhance game development and improve user experience, Nintendo holds...
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