The emergence and rapid growth of artificial intelligence, AI chatbots and assistants has taken the world by storm in recent years, so much so that we’re now seeing both technologies collide and merge into one. Almost every smartphone on the market these days has an AI component built into it,...
A mysterious new AI chatbot named "gpt2-chatbot" has emerged, following its release on a prominent large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. Speculation suggests that gpt2-chatbot boasts capabilities comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-4, placing it among a select few AI models that have been able to achieve this. Ethan Mollick, a...
Musicians and other celebrities should be protected by a law that would ban AI-generated deepfakes in the U.K., MPs say. An All-Party Parliamentary Group on Music advocated for legislation that would include "a specific personality right to protect creators and artists from misappropriation and false endorsement." The proposed law should...
Revenue at Amazon Web Services has soared by more than 200% and the company says artificial intelligence (AI) and advertising sales have driven its better-than-expected earnings. The retail giant published an earnings report for the first quarter of 2024 on Tuesday (April 30) and the figures exceeded what was expected...
Politicians in Austria have called for regulation on the use of artificial intelligence in weapon systems as concerns arise around using machines that can kill people without any human intervention. On Monday (April 29), the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs held a conference where Austria’s Foreign Minister...
With Apple just a couple of months away from revealing all at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, there’s a rumor that the ChatGPT developer OpenAI will play a part in a major artificial intelligence (AI) upgrade for the iPhone. The next generation of iOS is expected to be heavily...
Pope Francis is set to attend the upcoming G7 summit to discuss the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and the challenges it poses. Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni confirmed the Pope will be present at the gathering in Puglia, Italy scheduled for June 13 to June 15. The leaders of...
Investments in artificial intelligence (AI) are continuing to fuel the tech sector boom after strong earnings for Google, Microsoft, and Snap but Meta suffered a plunging share price despite a positive first quarter. As reported by Fast Company, AI is proving to be the catalyst for growth as investors prosper...
Microsoft's decision to invest heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) appears to have paid off after the company revealed significant gains in its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday (25 Apr). The world's largest public company outperformed Wall Street expectations, delivering $61.86 billion in revenue after billions of dollars were invested in...
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, xAI, looks like it has some serious venture capital money behind it with the commitment of Sequoia Capital, to invest in the company. Musk launched xAI in 2023 with lofty ideals and plans to work on existential problems like understanding the nature of the universe....
In Baltimore, Maryland a former high school sports director has been arrested for using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal, making the public believe he had made racist and anti-semitic comments. Dazhon Darien was detained by Baltimore County Police after he targeted the head of Pikesville High School, Eric Eiswert....
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sounded a warning to investors that it will take considerable time before any significant returns are made on generative artificial intelligence (AI). The chief of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp has braced expectations for lower profits for the foreseeable future as he strives to keep pace...
Threads has announced it has reached the milestone of 150 million active monthly users. The social platform from Facebook and Instagram owner, Meta, was introduced as an alternative to Elon Musk's X and since its launch in July, it has maintained steady growth. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg provided the update...
Synthesia has revealed a new range of artificial intelligence (AI) generated digital avatars which can portray human emotion based on text instruction. The London-based company has presented its "Expressive Avatars" to synergize real emotion in the virtual world with users able to create professional quality videos without cameras and microphones....
Meta's long-awaited AI assistant has finally been unveiled, much to the confusion of its users, who claim that the chatbot has already begun to hallucinate information. Built with the tech giant’s Large Language Model (LLM) Meta Llama 3, Meta AI is on phones and available for free in pockets everywhere....
Gemini, Google's answer to ChatGPT, is set to get an update to its app that enables real-time responses, bringing it in line with how the artificial intelligence (AI) tool operates on desktops. Discovered by AssembleDebug, an expert in Google apps, and reported on PiunikaWeb, the feature was found within the...
Social media apps have been seizing the opportunity to incorporate artificial intelligence since the technology's rapid expansion. The popular platform Snapchat is among those making the most of it with its young demographic, who use it to engage with each other through sharing stories, direct messages, and multimedia photo and...
Snoop Dogg has hilariously responded to a diss track by Drake, who used the AI voices of the legendary rapper and Tupac Shakur against artist Kendrick Lamar. Less than a week after “Push Ups” leaked online, Drake amped up his feud with Lamar by dropping yet another diss with the...
OpenAI has stated that Elon Musk's claim that the company violated its contractual commitments to create an open-source, nonprofit entity is "revisionist" and is an attempt to promote his own competing AI firm. The Tesla CEO, who helped to found the company in 2015, sued the company and its chief...
In partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the US Air Force has announced a significant breakthrough in achieving its first artificial intelligence (AI) dogfight. Project teams from the Air Force Test Pilot School and DARPA collaborated to great effect, testing AI algorithms using the X-62A VISTA aircraft. ...
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