Jack Dorsey’s Block released a new voice model out of the company’s research lab that runs locally and sounds strangely human with its expressions like laughs, pauses, and cries. The company said…
AI bear slams Nvidia’s GPU pitch: ‘There’s not scarcity other than that which is created by Jensen Huang’
Ed Zitron, CEO of public relations firm EZPR and well-known critic of the AI spending boom, says Nvidia (NVDA) is creating the scarcity it sells against. Zitron pointed to how concentrated Nvidia’s…
AI in customer service: How jobs are changing
Maskot | Digitalvision | Getty Images For Kaylee Harris, who works in customer service for a credit card company, a day at work now looks very different. Her hours used to be…
The Myth of Safe AI
Three months prior to the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI published what would prove to be a prescient blog outlining the firm’s approach to ensuring that its AI models would be safe and…
Fired OpenAI researchers give their first interview since their dramatic dismissal : Machine Gods : NPR
Fired OpenAI safety researchers Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak give us their first interview since their dramatic dismissal. They take us inside the company during METR’s investigation into the Hugging Face hack,…
Disney AI patent sparks fans’ fears of replacing actors
Welcome to the future. Disney has quietly filed two patents to develop AI-powered characters that could make interacting with their park’s animatronics feel realer than ever. Disney Enterprises was recently granted a…
AI bubble update: 79% of companies say their GPUs sit idle at least half the time, yet most plan new AI platforms
Most surveyed companies running AI in production say the GPUs they use sit idle at least half the time, and most of those companies plan to add or switch AI compute platforms…
The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle | AI (artificial intelligence)
Dale Johnston opens the gate to his neat suburban garden on the western fringes of Newport in South Wales. There’s a trampoline and a slide on the lawn for his grandchildren, and…
AI’s ‘Black October’: PHP vulnerabilities trigger fresh wave of alarms
Cybersecurity teams around the globe are rushing to patch PHP programming language flaws this week, in an artificial intelligence safety moment that’s being described as “Black October.” Nearly 70% of all websites…
‘Made by humans, not AI.’ Why Democrats are shunning fake videos in ads. – The Washington Post
‘Made by humans, not AI.’ Why Democrats are shunning fake videos in ads. The Washington Post