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SearchGtp is an artificial intelligence-powered search engine
Artificial intelligence technology startup OpenAI released a prototype of a real-time web search engine, named ‘SearchGPT’, which is designed to help users connect with publishers by prominently quoting and linking to them in searches. The startup has signed licensing deals with The Atlantic, News Corp and The Financial Times. Publishers will have a way to…
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There are neo-Nazis
Extremists in the US are weaponising artificial intelligence (AI) to increase hate speech, recruit new members, and radicalise online supporters, a report by Tech Against Terrorism said. AI-generated videos were used to produce videos featuring a President using racial slurs, an actress reading aloud from a Nazi novel, among others. generative AI can also be…
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Apple’s operating system, iOS 18, will include a new version of its popular virtual assistant, “Siri”
Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi said the company will be focusing on privacy and security in its new Artificial Intelligence strategy. He said, ” Your data is never stored or made accessible to Apple.” The company has unveiled new email writing suggestions and text summaries and added that writing features like…
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Before Pizza Glue was in the search results, the search engines cut back on the stories that came up about it
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools that are used to monitor workers could potentially violate privacy, according to security consultancy Prism Infosec’s Principal Consultant Phil Robinson. This comes after US House of Representatives barred staff from using Microsoft’s ‘Copilot’ cloud service for sensitive data. The risk of leaking data to non-House approved cloud service is what prompted…
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Russia, China and Israel are being removed from influence operations by Openai
Russia, China, Iran, and Israel are using artificial intelligence in their efforts to manipulate public opinion, according to a report by OpenAI. In the past three months, OpenAI banned accounts linked to five covert influence operations, which it defines as “attempts” to manipulate public opinion or influence political outcomes without revealing the true identity or…
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The stone age is when the newchats are entering
US-based software company Anthropic has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool called Claude, which it claims can help in virtual interior design and interior design. The AI tool can be used by developers to direct the chatbot to access other services. Anthropic said a virtual interior design consultant could use the tool to process room…
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The year of therative election is 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used for everything from sabotage to satire to the seemingly mundane, according to US scientist Vittoria Elliott. She said AI chatbots can be used to write speeches and answer questions about a candidate’s policy. Elliott also said that AI has been used to deploy bots and even tailor automated texts…
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There are strange answers in the search
Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) overview product is a “tiny slice of what the company announced last week”, New York University Professor Gary Marcus said in an interview. He added that the AI Overviews on certain queries where appropriate under the company’s content policies, and the use of those examples to develop broader improvements to its…
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I just want to berative artificial intelligence
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) helps me write code and has renewed myrelationship with writing code. It helps me with music theory and writes bad little melodies. So I should reject this whole crop of image-generating, chatting, large-language-model-based code-writing infinite typing monkeys, I said. “Whenever a new big tech thing has everything melting, I repeat to…
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Major AlphaFold upgrade provides boost for drug discovery
DeepMind-backed startup Isomorphic Labs has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool called AlphaFold3 which predicts structure of proteins and molecules, used in bioterrorism research. AlphaFold3 is better than existing software tools for predicting the structure of proteins, researchers found. The machine-learning network used byAlphaFold3 is called a diffusion model and it is used by image-generating…
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Our time perception is affected by visualcluttering
Researchers from Germany and the UK have developed a new way to calculate the COVID-19 carbon footprints of artificial intelligence (AI). They said the results show that AI can help predict the effect of different scenarios on carbon footprints of buildings, cars and other structures. They also said that the impact of AI on the…
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The bill would reveal what is inside the training data
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he would veto a bill that would require artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to obtain users’ permission before running on their computers. “I will veto it,” Trump said in a tweet. The bill is set to be introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday. It would require AI apps…
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There were new White House rules on how the government should use artificial intelligence
The US, UK and the EU have passed laws to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in federal agencies. The new laws require government agencies to disclose how they are using AI and the risks associated with it in an online inventory each year. It further requires agencies to stop or justify the use…
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On the first day of trading, there was a stock surge
Reddit COO Jen Wong has said the social media platform is focused on three markets for future of its business, advertising, transactions between users and selling data to artificial intelligence companies. “Reddit’s corpus of information is incredibly important to the training of large language models,” she added. Wong further said Reddit has about 19 years…
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It will not win the video games you play with it
Google’s DeepMind is exploring the power of Artificial Intelligence to learn more using lessons learned from its video game Goat Simulator 3. DeepMind said its AI system, SIMA, is able to take advantage of shared concepts in the game and learn better skills and to learn to be better at carrying out instructions. The team…
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Middle school students in Florida are accused of making fake nudes of classmates
A 16-year-old boy in the US is facing charges after he was arrested by police over accusations that he altered his classmates’ nude pictures with an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. The boy, who had allegedly shared the pictures on social media, was arrested along with another student for “disturbing” the victims’ privacy, police said. Both…
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There is a wild claim at the heart of the Openai lawsuit
OpenAI has filed a lawsuit against Musk and DeepMind, accusing them of breaching the terms of a non-binding agreement to fund research into artificial intelligence. The lawsuit stated that the agreement was a contract for open artificial intelligence by OpenAI, not a contract for open AI. The lawsuit accused Musk and DeepMind of violating the…
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Musk sued OpenAI for abandoning its mission to benefit humanity
Billionaire investor and Openai Co-founder Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against the startup claiming that its GPT-4 model is “better at reasoning than average humans”. The lawsuit also claims that GPT-4 is a fully open source model and doesn’t render it truly artificial intelligence. Musk had founded OpenAI in 2016 after leaving the firm’s…
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The Times cheated to get the talk show to do that, says OpenAI
The New York Times, Raw Story and AlterNet have filed lawsuits against Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform OpenAI and its chatbot ChatGPT, alleging it reproduces “verbatim or nearly verbatim copyright-protected works of journalism without providing author, title, copyright or terms of use information”. The publications claim OpenAI and Microsoft knew they would generate less revenue…
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The ability to generate images of people was paused by the company
Google’s artificial intelligence tool, Gemini, was criticised for using “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions” while generating images. Google said it’s working on improving the tool’s ability to generate images, but some historical requests still end up factually misrepresenting the past. The company said its attempts at creating a “wide range” of results missed…
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A tech briefing: Artificial intelligence will help map methane pollution from space
The US Senate has introduced the Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2024, which would help establish standards for assessing environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI). The bill directs National Institute for Standards and Technology to help establish standards for assessing the environmental impact of AI and create a voluntary reporting framework for operators.
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Scale is only a part of the equation, according to the leader of the artificial intelligence company
Jay Primack, an AI engineer working at OpenAI, has said he knew he was training algorithms for the company when he was invited to join the OpenAI workspace in Slack. “I’m passing on knowledge I have and that the machine doesn’t have,” he added. Primack further said that he hopes his work will help create…
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The FTC is investigating the investments made by Microsoft, Amazon and other companies
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an investigation into artificial intelligence (AI) products made by OpenAI and Microsoft’s Anthropic. The agency has asked the companies for information on the specific investment agreements, how these investments influence product releases and oversight rights. It also asked to know how these investments affect market’s share, competition…
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Mercedes-Benz is getting an Artificial Intelligence boost to its voice assistant
Mercedes-Benz has revealed that it is collaborating with Intel to develop a vehicle voice assistant which will use artificial intelligence to give commands like “Hey Mercedes” and help users navigate. The AI-based voice assistant will also let users adjust the temperature in the vehicle, find a navigation destination or place a phone call. The chip…
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The EU reached a tentative agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act
The European Union (EU) lawmakers have approved a ban on “high-impact” general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) systems. The EU AI Act is the first such legislation in the world and will come into force in six months, followed by a year of transparency and two years of the full set of rules. It also imposes fines…