CNN — Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t make it true. It seems so simple, but if everyone knew that, Facebook and Google wouldn’t have to pull bogus news sites from their advertising algorithms and people wouldn’t breathlessly share stories that claim Donald Trump is a secret lizard person or Hillary Clinton is an android …
Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, has received FDA approval to start human trials for its groundbreaking brain-computer interface. In a tweet announcement, no details were given about the timeline for the clinical trials or recruitment. Neuralink aims to have the human nervous system communicate with computers using the Neuralink N1 implant, which is slightly …
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, May 10, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Google’s cloud business is expanding its use of new artificial intelligence technologies in health care, giving medical professionals at Mayo Clinic the …
The Mona Lisa’s size is smaller than three feet tall and about two feet wide, and it hangs in the biggest exhibition room at France’s Louvre Museum. However, in recent weeks, some vigilante AI artists have decided it should be bigger. They are using Adobe Photoshop’s “generative fill” beta tool, which allows users to fill …
Apple created a buzz with its $3,499 Vision Zero mixed-reality headset announcement at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Along with this VR gear, Apple announced several features that will be added to its iOS 17 operating system when it launches officially in September, including: FaceTime Voice messages This feature will allow users to leave video voice …
Apple’s new machine learning technology will no longer autocorrect swear words, such as the expletive that has been mistakenly replaced with ‘ducking,’ much to users’ frustration. During the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, said, “In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, …
Twitter has lifted restrictions on accounts linked to the Kremlin after being acquired by tech billionaire Elon Musk, as evidenced by a recent review of the website. Multiple account tests showed that Twitter’s search results, timeline, and recommendation tools now display accounts such as Vladimir Putin’s presidential account, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and …
Generative AI has an anglophone twang. English is believed to make up around 97% of data learning by the Microsoft-backed chatbot ChatGPT. This means that GAI options are currently limited in non-English-speaking countries and local alternatives are necessary. The chatbots ChatGPT and Google’s Bard have been experimenting with Korean, and users report that Bard is …
Residents of the eastern U.S. who aren’t used to the effects of wildfires are getting firsthand exposure this week, as smoke and air pollution from fires in Canada make their way across the Midwest, Ohio Valley, Northeast, and Mid-Atlantic. Destructive fires in western states have sent smoke sailing east before. But this week’s Canadian fires …
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has taken a proactive approach to engaging with lawmakers and regulators about the regulation of AI. Altman has met with at least 100 members of Congress, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and cabinet members at the White House, to discuss AI and its evolving technology. He has also …