emerging technologies
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Everything We Know About Humane’s Bewildering New AI Pin
Two former Apple employees (and Sam Altman) promise their AI pin will revolutionise our relationships with the internet. But what is it?
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Google, Amazon Invest Billions Into ChatGPT Competitor
Google will invest up to $US2 billion in Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI, ramping up the race between artificial intelligence companies, originally reported by The Wall Street Journal Friday. Amazon committed a $US4 billion investment to the startup and its AI assistant Claude last month. Gizmodo confirmed the deal with an Anthropic spokesperson Monday. Former…
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Artists Can Fight Back Against AI by Killing Art Generators From the Inside
How can artists hope to fight back against the whims of tech companies wanting to use their work to train AI? One group of researchers has a novel idea: slip a subtle poison into the art itself to kill the AI art generator from the inside out. Ben Zhao, a professor of computer science at…
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GM’s Cruise Investigated Over Reported Pedestrian Injuries
General Motors’ autonomous vehicle company Cruise can’t shake the safety scrutiny over its driverless robotaxis. Now the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is digging into whether or not these AVs are safe for the pedestrians being forced to live with them. The NHTSA’s Office of Defects opened an investigation into Cruise on Monday. A…