radical‘s Down the Rabbit Hole

After news stories were written about Google AI Overviews telling people to put glue on pizza, now AI Overviews cites those stories to tell people how much glue to put on pizza.

A new report details how OpenAI, Google, and Meta have tried to get over the limits of good data available online — for OpenAI, that includes generating YouTube transcripts.

The US Air Force has revealed that it carried out its first successful dogfight test involving an AI-controlled jet against a human pilot.

Hertz renters report the company is sending email offers to buy their current rental Tesla (and other EVs) instead of returning them.

Zoom will soon let you create an AI avatar of yourself that you can use to send custom video messages to your team.

Two Harvard students have created a demo of how the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, LLMs, and public databases can be used to instantly doxx people.

Axiom Space has revealed its new space suit design, created in partnership with Prada. Because space travel was lacking that high-fashion sophistication.

Casio’s furry Moflin robot will learn to recognize you the more you interact with it, and over time, it will develop its own simulated personality and emotions.

The company plans to use the Creuziger family’s land to build a multi-building data center. The purchase is a part of a $1 billion investment that Microsoft plans to make in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.

Waymo conducted the first analysis of its fully driverless vehicles to determine whether they’re safer than human drivers. The 7.1-million mile study found its cars performed better than humans in preventing injury-causing crashes.

Meta’s multimodal artificial intelligence can use the Ray-Ban smart glasses’ camera and microphone to see what you’re looking at or hearing, and respond accordingly.

Scientists have renamed 27 human genes to stop Microsoft Excel misreading them as dates. The changes have been underway for the past year but have been formally announced as new guidelines published by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. Scientist are overjoyed but annoyed Microsoft didn’t make the changes itself.

The massive computer clusters powering artificial intelligence consume vast quantities to answer the world’s queries, but how is Big Tech redressing the balance?

Bank of England warns that companies using the same artificial intelligence-driven strategies could amplify shocks to the financial system

Ten years later, reflections of Spike Jonze’s human-AI romance are all around us

Interview: Forrester principal analyst JP Gownder says jobs eaten by bots don't come back

: CEO warns airlines that don’t learn to sell themselves to machines could soon be flying under the radar

: Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things

ai-pocalypse: GenAI meets Gen Z – only one gets the job

ai-pocalypse: Consultancy says machine learning advice is making bank

ai-pocalypse: 250 people now have the chance to sell their freelance services on the site

: Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges

Feature: Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel

: A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified

: Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far

: 'When we look at the outcomes, it really has not moved the needle'

Comment: More silicon, more power, more pain for datacenter operators

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