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If you spent almost any time on the internet this week, you probably saw a lot of chatter about “Heart on My Sleeve.” The song went viral for featuring AI-generated voices that do a pretty good job of mimicking Drake and The Weeknd singing about a recent breakup. On Monday, Apple Music and Spotify pulled Read more about AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song pulled from streaming platforms[…]
A new study on the human capacity for cooperation suggests that, deep down, people of diverse cultures are more similar than you might expect. The study, published in Scientific Reports, shows that from the towns of England, Italy, Poland, and Russia to the villages of rural Ecuador, Ghana, Laos, and Aboriginal Australia, at the micro Read more about Study shows human tendency to help others is universal[…]
Meta’s WhatsApp is threatening to leave the UK if the government passes the Online Safety Bill, saying it will essentially eliminate its encryption methods. Alongside its rival company Signal and five other apps, the company said that, by passing the bill, users will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption, which ensures no one but Read more about WhatsApp, Signal Threaten to Leave UK Over ‘Online Safety Bill’ – which wants big brother reading all your messages. So online snooping bill, really.[…]
Auto-GPT dramatically flips the relationship between AI and the end user (that’s you). ChatGPT relies on a back-and-forth between the AI and the end user: You prompt the AI with a request, it returns a result, and you respond with a new prompt, perhaps based on what the AI gave you. Auto-GPT, however, only needs Read more about AutoGPT: An AI that thinks up your questions and answers them for you[…]
After placing an early bet on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, Microsoft has another secret weapon in its arsenal: its own artificial intelligence chip for powering the large-language models responsible for understanding and generating humanlike language. The Information: The software giant has been developing the chip, internally code-named Athena, since as early as 2019, according Read more about Microsoft Readies AI Chip as Machine Learning Costs Surge[…]
[…] Toucan, a browser extension, is trying a different approach, and it might just be the thing that finally clicks for you. How Toucan works With Toucan installed for either Chrome, Edge, or Safari, the first time you visit a website or click on an article, you’ll notice something strange: Some of the words on the Read more about Toucan Teaches You a New Language While You Browse the Internet[…]
Today, Stability AI released a new open-source language model, StableLM. The Alpha version of the model is available in 3 billion and 7 billion parameters, with 15 billion to 65 billion parameter models to follow. Developers can freely inspect, use, and adapt our StableLM base models for commercial or research purposes, subject to the terms Read more about Stability AI of Stable Diffusion Launches open source StableLM LLM with 3 and 7 billion parameters[…]
Online image hosting service Imgur is updating its Terms of Service on May 15th to prohibit nudity and sexually explicit content, among other things. The news arrived in an email sent to “Imgurians”. The changes have since been outlined on the company’s “Community Rules” page, which reads: Imgur welcomes a diverse audience. We don’t want Read more about Imgur To Ban Nudity, Sexual or otherwise unsettling Content Next Month[…]
The Medusa ransomware gang has put online what it claims is a massive leak of internal Microsoft materials, including Bing and Cortana source code. “This leak is of more interest to programmers, since it contains the source codes of the following Bing products, Bing Maps and Cortana,” the crew wrote on its website, which was Read more about Medusa ransomware crew boasts of Microsoft Bing and Cortana code leak[…]
Video editors are flocking to DaVinci Resolve in droves, marking a major paradigm shift in the editing landscape that we haven’t seen since the dreadful launch of Final Cut Pro X drove users to Adobe Premiere Pro. […] More a conglomeration of tools than a single program, Resolve came through some acquisitions Blackmagic made when Read more about Why Video Editors are Switching to DaVinci Resolve in Droves[…]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Researchers said on Wednesday they have discovered that parts of the brain region called the motor cortex that govern body movement are connected with a network involved in thinking, planning, mental arousal, pain, and control of internal organs, as well as functions such as blood pressure and Read more about Scientists Identify Mind-Body Nexus In Human Brain[…]
AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can offer significant benefits to society and humanity, as demonstrated by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs. Advanced AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we live, work, and interact with one another, and it should be welcomed and guided with optimism and foresight. Regrettably, recent months Read more about 💡 Pause AI Doomster Pessimism: An Open Letter – a call on AI doomsters to immediately pause for at least 6 months the alarmism that is hurting human progress.[…]
Amazon is making its AI-powered coding assistant CodeWhisperer free for individual developers, reports the Verge, “undercutting the $10 per month pricing of its Microsoft-made rival.” Amazon launched CodeWhisperer as a preview last year, which developers can use within various integrated development environments (IDEs), like Visual Studio Code, to generate lines of code based on a Read more about Undercutting Microsoft, Amazon Offers Free Access to Its AI Coding Assistant ‘CodeWhisperer’[…]
A survey of plastic waste picked up in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre—aka the Giant Pacific Garbage Patch—has revealed that the garbage is providing a home to species that would otherwise not be found in the deep ocean. Over two-thirds of the trash examined plays host to coastal marine species, many of which are clearly Read more about Pacific garbage patch providing a deep ocean home for coastal species[…]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the cybersecurity authorities of Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, and New Zealand (CERT NZ, NCSC-NZ ) published today “Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Principles and Approaches for Security-by-Design and -Default.” This joint guidance urges Read more about International Partners Publish Secure-by-Design and -Default Principles and Approaches Guide – but don’t link to guide in press release[…]
I have posted on this a few times and to me it’s shocking to see these fabricated sci-fi doomsday predictions about AI. AI / ML is a tool which we use, just like video games (that don’t cause violence in kids), roleplaying games (which don’t cause satanism), a telephone (which yes, can be used in Read more about The AI Doomers’ Playbook[…]
Segment Anything, recently released by Facebook Research, does something that most people who have dabbled in computer vision have found daunting: reliably figure out which pixels in an image belong to an object. Making that easier is the goal of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), just released under the Apache 2.0 license. The online demo Read more about Need To Pick Objects Out Of Images? Segment Anything Does Exactly That[…]
[…] Motherboard has found, this synthesized call and another against Hempstead High School were just one small part of a months-long, nationwide campaign of dozens, and potentially hundreds, of threats made by one swatter in particular who has weaponized computer generated voices. Known as “Torswats” on the messaging app Telegram, the swatter has been calling Read more about A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America[…]
Scientists are finding that the timing of our sleep matters more than we know. Source: Why fighting the urge to sleep may be bad for our health Reuters has a deep dive into sleep on their website, lots of interesting information on what happens physiologically to people when they wake and sleep and the importance Read more about Why fighting the urge to sleep may be bad for our health – a deep dive into sleep[…]
Despite some companies making strides with ARM, for the most part, the desktop and laptop space is still dominated by x86 machines. For all their advantages, they have a glaring flaw for anyone concerned with privacy or security in the form of a hardware backdoor that can access virtually any part of the computer even Read more about Disabling Intel and AMD’s Backdoors On Modern computers[…]
In a news announcement on Wednesday, the Italian Data Protection Authority, known as the Garante, stressed that OpenAI needed to be more transparent about its data collection processes and inform users about their data rights with regards to the generative AI. These rights include allowing users and non-users of ChatGPT to object to having their Read more about Italy finds decently good out to really stupid ban: Demands OpenAI Allow ChatGPT User Corrections After Ban[…]
The 2019 release of the first image of a black hole was hailed as a significant scientific achievement. But truth be told, it was a bit blurry – or, as one astrophysicist involved in the effort called it, a “fuzzy orange donut.” Scientists on Thursday unveiled a new and improved image of this black hole Read more about Scientists unveil new and improved ‘skinny donut’ black hole image using ML algorithm[…]
[…] Debashis Chanda, a nanoscience researcher with the University of Central Florida, and his team have created a way to mimic nature’s ability to reflect light and create beautifully vivid color without absorbing any heat like traditional pigments do. Chanda’s research, published in the journal Science Advances, explains and explores structural color and how people Read more about Scientists create structural paint that stays cool underneath, doesn’t fade, extremely light and no toxins[…]
[…] On Tuesday, Google – which has answered the government’s call to secure the software supply chain with initiatives like the Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) database and Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) – announced an open source software vetting service, its deps.dev API. The API, accessible in a more limited form via the web, aims Read more about Google debuts deps.dev API to check security status of dependencies[…]
Software engineer Jeff Lau, posting under the username UselessPickles, showed off the restored car phone in a video uploaded to YouTube. The Mitsubishi came from the factory with an optional “DiamondTel” handset and hands-free system, which was rendered inoperable by the discontinuation of analog “AMPS” cell service in the U.S. in 2008. (The 3G shutdown Read more about Mitsubishi 3000GT Car Phone Modded To Work Like an iPhone, link to full 3 year journey included[…]