83 posts tagged ‘Artificial Intelligence’
Google Researchers Can Create an AI That Thinks a Lot Like You After Just a Two-Hour Interview
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After an average of 6,000 words, Stanford and Google researchers can spin up a generative agent that will act a lot like you do.
Apple Intelligence News Notification Summaries
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Graham Fraser: Apple Intelligence, launched in the UK earlier this week, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications. This week, the AI-powered summary falsely made it appear BBC News had published an article claiming Luigi Mangione, the man arrested following the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had […]
OpenAI Failed to Deliver Opt-out Tool
Kyle Wiggers (Hacker News): Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But seven months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day.Called Media Manager, the tool would […]
Anthropic Agrees to Stop Claude Chatbot’s Ability to Spit Out Lyrics From Copyrighted Songs
The AI company still argues that training Claude on copyrighted material constitutes fair use.
Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop
Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded.
Vlad Prelovac on Kagi Search and Orion
The Talk Show (transcript): Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion. Here are some highlights from what I thought was a very interesting conversation: Microsoft tried that with Bing and they […]
Acorn 8
Gus Mueller (release notes): “Select Subject”, “Mask Subject”, and “Remove Background” are new commands which use machine learning (or A.I. if you prefer) to find the most important parts of your image, and then perform their respective operations.[…]Acorn 8 now has an on canvas ruler which you can use to measure out distances, straighten your […]
Gemini 2.0
David Pierce (Slashdot): Google is releasing Gemini 2.0 on Wednesday, about 10 months after the company first launched 1.5. It’s still in what Google calls an “experimental preview,” and only one version of the model — the smaller, lower-end 2.0 Flash — is being released. But Hassabis says it’s still a big day. “Effectively,” Hassabis […]