IT総合 ‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail
If the models continue eating each other's data, perhaps without even knowing it, they'll progressively get weirder and ...
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IT総合 IT総合 Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas on accelerating everyday AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
As AI competition heats up, Perplexity has proven resilient due to its focus on using the technology strictly as a tool ...
IT総合 Moon cave! Discovery could redirect lunar colony and startup plays
What this means for the space industry is that theory has become reality: The possibility of designing a habitation with...
IT総合 Experiment finds AI boosts creativity individually — but lowers it collectively
A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: It appeared to hel...
IT総合 Are ‘visual’ AI models actually blind?
The latest round of language models, like GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro, are touted as “multi-modal,” able to un...
IT総合 Data workers detail exploitation by tech industry in DAIR report
The essential labor of data work, like moderation and annotation, is systematically hidden from those who benefit from t...
IT総合 OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers
There’s no need to worry that your secret ChatGPT conversations were obtained in a recently reported breach of Ope...
IT総合 Google’s environmental report pointedly avoids AI’s actual energy cost
Google totally dodges the question of how much energy is AI is using — perhaps because the answer is "way more than we'd...
IT総合 AI-powered scams and what you can do about them
This is by no means a complete list, just a few of the most obvious tricks that AI can supercharge.
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IT総合 Forget the debate, the Supreme Court just declared open season on regulators
As the country reels from a Presidential debate that left no one looking good, the Supreme Court has swooped in with wha...
IT総合 FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days
The FCC wants to make it significantly easier for consumers to unlock their phones from their carriers, proposing that a...
IT総合 The RIAA’s lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs
Unfortunately for Udio and Suno, the RIAA has a few thousand smoking guns in the lawsuit: songs it owns that are clearly...
IT総合 Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck on reshaping the space economy at Disrupt 2024
The future of the space industry may look a lot like its past, or so believes Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab....
IT総合 Apple joins the race to find an AI icon that makes sense
No one knows what AI looks like, or even is supposed to look like. It does everything, but looks like nothing.
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IT総合 Former NSA head joins OpenAI board and safety committee
The high-profile addition is likely intended to satisfy critics who think that OpenAI is moving faster than is wise for ...
IT総合 Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease
A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding...
IT総合 Cartwheel generates 3D animations from scratch to power up creators
Animating a 3D character from scratch is generally both laborious and expensive, requiring the use of complex software a...
IT総合 Kobo’s new e-readers are a sidegrade most can skip (with one exception)
Kobo put out a handful of new e-readers a few weeks back: color versions of the excellent Libra 2 and Clara, as well as ...
IT総合 WTF is AI?
What is AI? We've put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today...
IT総合 Voice cloning of political figures is still easy as pie
The 2024 election is likely to be the first in which faked audio and video of candidates is a serious factor. As campaig...
IT総合 Misinformation works, and a handful of social ‘supersharers’ sent 80% of it in 2020
The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but ...
IT総合 Valar Labs debuts AI-powered cancer care prediction tool and secures $22M
Biotech startup Valar Labs has built a tool that accurately predicts certain treatment outcomes, potentially saving prec...
IT総合 AI models have favorite numbers, because they think they’re people
AI models are always surprising us, not just in what they can do, but what they can’t, and why. An interesting new...
IT総合 $6M fine for robocaller who used AI to clone Biden’s voice
The FCC has proposed a $6 million fine for the scammer who used voice-cloning tech to impersonate President Biden in a s...
IT総合 ZeroPoint’s nanosecond-scale memory compression could tame power-hungry AI infrastructure
ZeroPoint claims to have solved compression problems with hyper-fast, low-level memory compression that requires no real...
IT総合 FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads must be disclosed
The FCC has floated a requirement that AI-generated content be disclosed in political ads — but not banned. Chairwoman J...
IT総合 Autodesk acquires AI-powered VFX startup Wonder Dynamics
3D tools behemoth Autodesk has acquired Wonder Dynamics, a startup that let creators quickly and easily make complex cha...
IT総合 Alchemist’s latest batch puts AI to work as accelerator expands to Tokyo, Doha
Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the pr...
IT総合 Indiebio’s SF incubator lineup is making some wild biotech promises
IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups; here are a few we took specia...
IT総合 Google’s expands hands-free and eyes-free interfaces on Android
As part of 2024’s Accessibility Awareness Day, Google is showing off some updates to Android that should be useful...