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May ‘AI’ Take Your Order? McDonald’s Says Not Yet
McDonald’s is ending a two-year-old partnership with IBM to test AI’s ability to replace drive-thru workers at more than 100 restaurants, according to Restaurant Business. The world’s largest fast-food company is reportedly pulling the technology later in July. However, McDonald’s tells the trade publication this experiment with IBM has “given us the confidence that a…
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Of Course This Is How We Learn More About the Next Captain America Movie
Since time immemorial, the machine of movie merchandising has revealed plot details—or at the very least got people to wildly and often incorrectly speculate about them—well before a movie’s release. So it’s perhaps fitting then, that the most we’ve seen of Captain America: Brave New World so far is not in a trailer, or a…
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Science Journal That Published ‘Rat Dck’ AI Gibberish Speaks Out
Don’t worry—the rat dck can no longer hurt you. The open-access paper that contained bizarre, AI-generated imagery of rat genitalia and gibberish graphics has been retracted by its publisher, which said that the study authors violated the journal’s guidelines. Published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, the study’s text discussed the function of stem…
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30 Years After Doom’s Release, These Are the 30 Best-Worst Ways to Play the Game That Started It All
If anybody remembers the old “Can it run Crysis?” meme, the joke has long since fallen flat as more games have long exceeded the specs requirement on that 16-year-old game. On the flip side, “Can it run Doom?” has a separate connotation. It belies the ingenuity of tinkerers and DIYers trying to find the most…