University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?
Feature Teachers need to work harder to get students to write and think for themselves
AI + ML27 Dec 2022 | 140
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Alphabet reshuffles to meet ChatGPT threat
In brief Plus: ArtStation cracks down on rebellious creators and lame-duck AI laws in the US on the cards
AI + ML25 Dec 2022 | 70
Since humans can't manage fusion, the US puts millions into AI-powered creation
Some terms and condition may apply
AI + ML23 Dec 2022 | 57
Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up
US investigators probe Bay Bridge multi-car smash
AI + ML23 Dec 2022 | 197
Lawyer mom barred from Rockettes show by facial recognition tech
No Girl Scout cookies for you
AI + ML21 Dec 2022 | 87
OpenAI gets to the Point•E with open source text-to-3D model
Designers' jobs to crash or GLIDE
AI + ML21 Dec 2022 |
OpenAI predicts biz can break a billion in revs by 2024
In Brief Plus: Suomi security warnings and artists rebel against AI on Artstation
AI + ML19 Dec 2022 | 6
Top tip: If you want more of that VC money, stick some AI in your chips
Analysis Helps if you're teetering on the edge
AI + ML16 Dec 2022 | 3
Breast cancer screening AI app OK'd by watchdog
When putting software on trial is a good thing
AI + ML15 Dec 2022 |
Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users
Opinion Siri? Google? Alexa? Could ChatGPT save us from this data harvesting nightmare?
AI + ML14 Dec 2022 | 172
Apple taps brake on self-driving cars, now aims for 2026
In brief Plus: ChatGPT behaving like a virtual machine, Cohere launches multi-lingual large language model
AI + ML13 Dec 2022 | 26
ChatGPT has mastered the confidence trick, and that's a terrible look for AI
Opinion It's very good, and that's very bad
AI + ML12 Dec 2022 | 158
China bans deepfakes created without permission or for evil
'Deep synthesis service providers' otherwise free to create AI-generated humans in line with socialist values
AI + ML12 Dec 2022 | 3
GitHub adds admin controls to Copilot, paints 'Business' on the side, doubles price
Ah, the enterprise way
AI + ML09 Dec 2022 | 22
Samsung, Korean IT giant Naver to build AI hyperscale chip
Meanwhile, Samsung appoints its first female president
AI + ML06 Dec 2022 |
You get the internet you deserve
Comment The race to the bottom is on and the IoS is about to get S'ier
AI + ML06 Dec 2022 | 106
Adobe to sell AI-generated images on its stock photo platform
Contributors will have to disclose whether their work was made using AI, and are not allowed rip off artists
AI + ML06 Dec 2022 | 5
Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues
High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans
AI + ML05 Dec 2022 | 65
OpenAI opens doors to ChatGPT, another AI to fill the world with kinda-true stuff
In brief Plus: DeepMind beats humans at Stratego
AI + ML03 Dec 2022 | 26
Google frees nifty ML image-compression model... but it's for JPEG-XL
Yep. The very same JPEG-XL that's just been axed from Chromium
AI + ML02 Dec 2022 | 37
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Southwest Airlines blames IT breakdown for stranding holiday travelers
Have they tried turning it off and back on again?
An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while
On-Call Sometimes bringing your work laptop on a trip pays off
Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts seemingly up for sale
Plus: Cracked Piers Morgan spews offensive tweets, not the usual kind
Miniature nuclear reactors could be the answer to sustainable datacenter growth
Did someone say teenage mutant ninja servers?
Non-binary DDR5 is finally coming to save your wallet
Need a New Year's resolution? How about stop paying for memory you don't need
NASA may tap SpaceX to rescue ISS 'nauts in Soyuz leak
And Elon's still distracted by Twitter, yes? OK, that's probably for the best
As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave
Comment There's more than one way to beat the heat – and save serious money
Intel settles to escape $4b patent suit with VLSI
Turns out patent trolls don't like being outed by their lawyers
With Mastodon, decentralization strikes back
Systems Approach ActivityPub isn't just what we've been doing over the Christmas break
Nvidia revives canceled RTX 4080 as 'new' 12GB RTX 4070 TI
Hopefully it comes with a 'new' competitive price, too
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Processing data... in space: AWS powers Earth observation satellite payload
Orbiting sat suite includes machine learning models, cloud-managed edge runtime
AI + ML30 Nov 2022 | 2
Google Health licenses its AI breast cancer screening tool to a medical biz
iCAD will have five years to bring a product to market
AI + ML29 Nov 2022 | 4
Japanese convenience store chain opens outlet staffed by avatars and robots
Like Clippy, but for snacks, booze, and cigarettes
AI + ML29 Nov 2022 | 55
US Justice Dept reportedly checking AI rent-pricing biz RealPage
Company accused of allowing landlords to collude and artificially inflate rental prices
AI + ML28 Nov 2022 | 5
Spooky entanglement revealed between quantum AI and the BBC
Opinion QC: Still not actually useful, but it's increasingly intriguing
AI + ML28 Nov 2022 | 34
AI giant Baidu shrugs off US chip export restrictions as having 'little impact'
Says sanctions could even accelerate China's drive for silicon self-sufficiency
AI + ML24 Nov 2022 | 9
India seeks global standards to stop AI harming humanity
Takes over presidency of global AI group, and uses G20 leadership to flex manufacturing muscle
AI + ML24 Nov 2022 | 3
Study suggests AI cruise control could kill traffic jams by cutting out the 'intuition' factor
The reason your morning drive sucks is because of you, the impulsive human behind the wheel
AI + ML23 Nov 2022 | 59
Meta's Cicero chatbot can probably beat you at Diplomacy
AI agent proves better than most people in classic game of trust and betrayal
AI + ML23 Nov 2022 | 13
Tesla reports two more fatal Autopilot accidents to the NHTSA
Not a great look for the electric car company as drivers urged to remain alert
AI + ML16 Nov 2022 | 53
Feed the AI fire with centralization
An efficient GPU compute management platform is critical to furthering AI experimentation, says Run:ai
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Intel says it can sort the living human beings from the deepfakes in real time
Claims to be able to spot imposters in live video feeds within milliseconds
AI + ML15 Nov 2022 | 11
Waymo turns its driverless cars into roving weather stations
Maybe now San Francisco will allow it to operate in the fog and rain?
AI + ML15 Nov 2022 | 9
Hey, GitHub, can you create an array compare function without breaking the GPL?
In brief Plus: Amazon debuts AI warehouse robot, Midjourney releases latest ML art generator
AI + ML12 Nov 2022 | 81
GitHub's Copilot flies into its first open source copyright lawsuit
Opinion It won't be the last
AI + ML11 Nov 2022 | 91
Mythic bet big on analog AI but has run out of cash
Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful'
AI + ML09 Nov 2022 | 10
With AI, you need to see the bigger hardware and software picture
Sensible use of CPUs and GPUs is the answer to scaling up accelerated compute, says Intel
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Chinese employers sought a million hard core AI techies in five years
Pay is middling, hours are long, but millions of jobs are out there
AI + ML08 Nov 2022 | 2
Tired: Data scientists. Wired: Data artists
Asking really good questions about what data can describe matters more than collecting more info
AI + ML08 Nov 2022 | 28
OpenAI, Microsoft, GitHub hit with lawsuit over Copilot
In brief Plus: City of Edinburgh promises to scrap Chinese AI Hikvision cameras, and more
AI + ML07 Nov 2022 | 10
Watchdog urged to sniff out any collusion, deception in rent-setting algorithms
Things could get real for RealPage real fast
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
Machine learning research in acoustics could open up multimodal metaverse
Jury still out on whether any kind of metaverse is strictly necessary
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
A next-gen AI protein folder that could help science? Meta's good for something
Faster than the others, 600m structures now in a public DB
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 11
Self-driving truck startup TuSimple ousts CEO over ties to Chinese rival
Boss denies any wrongdoing as Feds reportedly stick a probe in, too
AI + ML01 Nov 2022 | 6
Bumble open sources AI code to automatically blur NSFW photos
In brief Plus: Why some manga and anime fans hate AI-generated art, and ex-Google boss funds AI students
AI + ML31 Oct 2022 | 26
Enterprises are rolling out more AI – to 'middling results'
Businesses that achieve full-scale deployment don't always get the outcomes they hoped for, says Deloitte
AI + ML31 Oct 2022 | 22
Privacy watchdog urges companies drop emotional analysis AI software
'They may not work yet, or indeed ever,' says ICO's deputy commissioner
AI + ML29 Oct 2022 | 15
Tesla reportedly faces criminal probe into self-driving hype
Plus: Robo-car upstart Argo AI shuts down after automakers pull plug on funding
AI + ML27 Oct 2022 | 84
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to sell AI-generated stock images using DALL-E
Getty Images is collaborating with generative AI startup BRIA
AI + ML26 Oct 2022 | 7
AI-driven creativity gives overpowered PCs something worthwhile to do, at last
Column Take your desktop rig out for a proper run, turning words into images, 3D models and videos – if it can
AI + ML26 Oct 2022 | 10
Human-replacing AI startups reach $1bn unicorn status
In brief Plus: Meta builds speech-to-speech system to translate Hokkien, Waymo expands to LA, and more
AI + ML23 Oct 2022 | 3
Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI
Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019
AI + ML21 Oct 2022 | 3
AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education
Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals
AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 27
How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm
Special report AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one
AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 75
NASA AI shows slashing sulfur in shipping fuel cut air pollution at sea
COVID-19 pandemic made a bit of a dent, too
AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 9
YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs
There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 111
Self-driving tech startup values crash 81% in 2 years
LiDAR companies lead the pack, with valuations plummeting up to 99% since IPO
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 24
Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke weapon sims
Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now
AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 6
Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art
In brief Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode
AI + ML16 Oct 2022 | 39
Just $10 to create an AI chatbot of a dead loved one
Feature How software can help some grieve, perturb others
AI + ML15 Oct 2022 | 60
AI recruitment software is 'automated pseudoscience', Cambridge study finds
HR diversity claims via software are rot, according to boffins
AI + ML13 Oct 2022 | 112
Nvidia not cutting it? Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived
GCN Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPUs and Mount Evans SmartNICs pop their heads above ground, too
AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 3
Samsung's Ukraine headquarters damaged by Russian missile strike
R&D Center focuses on autonomous AI, otherwise known as On-Device AI
AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 22
People still seem to think their fancy cars are fully self-driving
This is despite a history of assistive software being involved in crashes
AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 123
Lab explores dystopian future of AI helping cops catch criminals
In brief Plus: US AI Bill of Rights, and a new framework to run models on AMD and Nvidia GPUs more flexibly
AI + ML08 Oct 2022 | 11
AI co-programmers perhaps won't spawn as many bugs as feared
They can't be any worse than some human developers
AI + ML07 Oct 2022 | 17
Amazon halts work on ‘Scout’ delivery-bot that delivered parcels no faster than humans
Meanwhile in China, Alibaba runs 500 delivery-bots and they’ve delivered 10 million items to Easy Street
AI + ML07 Oct 2022 | 62
DeepMind uses matrix math to automate discovery of better matrix math techniques
How Meta, er, meta
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 15
Nuh-uh, Meta, we can do text-to-video AI, too, says Google
Brace yourself for a weird future where everything is imagined by magic sand we taught how to think
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 5
AI eye-scanner can tell whether you'll croak it from a heart attack
If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models?
AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 19
Someone's at last helping AI models understand those with speech disabilities
Welsh, on the other hand, there's no tech that can help with that
AI + ML04 Oct 2022 | 16
Tesla has a lot of work to do on its Optimus robot
Optimus Sub-Prime? For something meant to revolutionize production lines, reveal wasn't quite there yet
AI + ML03 Oct 2022 | 109
Text-to-image models are so last month, text-to-video is here
In brief Plus: Did Bruce Willis sell his image rights to AI biz creating deepfakes? And more
AI + ML01 Oct 2022 | 17
Europe just might make it easier for people to sue for damage caused by AI tech
Imagine the lawyer infomercials – Did a computer hurt you? Call (30) 555 1234...
AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 17
OpenAI opens doors to DALL-E after the horse has bolted to Midjourney and others
Ironic that an ML lab with so many accelerators is such a slowpoke
AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 7
Uncle Sam to unmask anonymous writers using AI
Along with revealing authors, IARPA also wants bot to disguise scribes
AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 50
Save the whales – with, uh, artificial intelligence?
When a Klingon Bird-of-Prey just won't cut it
AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 10
Ford buys into Middle Kingdom market with China EV subsidiary
As Intel expands its collaboration with Chinese car-maker Geely
AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 4
City isn't keen on 5,000 erratic, traffic-jam-causing GM robo-cars on its streets
Analysis 'Cruise AV automated driving system is still under development' is putting it politely after vehicles block roads
AI + ML27 Sep 2022 | 65
AI won't take coders' jobs. Humans still rule for now
In brief Plus: ML career help, OpenAI releases free speech-recognition model, and more news
AI + ML26 Sep 2022 | 23
Darth Vader voice actor James Earl Jones allows AI to take over the role
Ukrainian outfit Respeecher's GAN-based neural audio enhancer embraces The Dark Side
AI + ML26 Sep 2022 | 41
SiFive RISC-V cores picked for Google AI compute nodes
Cor, that's a shot in the arm for this upstart CPU ISA
AI + ML23 Sep 2022 | 13
The secret to Sparrow, DeepMind's latest Q&A chatbot: Human feedback
Thanks for the advice
AI + ML23 Sep 2022 | 20
Getty bans AI-generated art due to copyright concerns
You boffins need to figure out who owns what before someone gets sued
AI + ML21 Sep 2022 | 8
Now's your chance, AI, to do good. Protect endangered eagles from wind turbines
(But wot about us vultures, sniff)
AI + ML21 Sep 2022 | 89
Nvidia sets out timeline for H100 GPUs – now for HGX, next year for DGX
GTC It's called Hopper because most of the chips announced today skipped it
AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 1
SETI seeks amateur astronomers to find hot Jupiter-like exoplanets
Much better use of time than 'hot singles in your area'
AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 2
Creatives up in arms over claim that AI is killing human art
In brief Plus: Cruise expanding self-driving robotaxi operations, and more
AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 26
Google says some AI call center agents took the morning off
Updated Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said …
AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 8
Researchers build ML models to forecast food shortages
Secondary data in weather, macro-economics to help governments and orgs figure out where to focus their aid
AI + ML16 Sep 2022 | 3
Upstart claims its chips beat Nvidia's A100 on AI oomph
That's nice, but what about Nv's H100?
AI + ML15 Sep 2022 | 2
Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race
USA told to sort itself out in 5G, AI, and microelectronics by 2025 – or things could get mighty grim
AI + ML14 Sep 2022 | 39
US throws millions at AI to diagnose diseases by the sound of your voice
Speech can be impacted by cancer, Parkinson's, depression, and more
AI + ML13 Sep 2022 | 7
Academic publishers turn to AI software to catch bad scientists doctoring data
Analysis High level of image duplication in a single paper is a sign of cheating
AI + ML12 Sep 2022 | 17
Brain-inspired chips promise ultra-efficient AI, so why aren’t they everywhere?
Interview It's not because our AI overlords aren't keen on the idea
AI + ML12 Sep 2022 | 25
Draft EU AI Act regulations could have a chilling effect on open source software
In brief Plus: New MLPerf inference results, and artists finds terrifying AI-generated face haunting images
AI + ML11 Sep 2022 | 38
Hype versus reality: What you can't do with DeepMind's AlphaFold in drug discovery
Analysis Protein prediction it can do, the next steps not so much – not that it was trained for this
AI + ML08 Sep 2022 | 7
Man wins competition with AI-generated artwork – and some people aren't happy
In brief Plus: Use machine learning to understand your cat ... possibly
AI + ML03 Sep 2022 | 63
One man's battle to get patent rights for AI inventors in America may be over
Analysis Stephen Thaler is fighting the law, and the law is winning
AI + ML01 Sep 2022 | 46
Goodbye, humans: Call centers 'could save $80b' switching to AI
You'll just have to learn to code instead – oh wait, computers can do that, too
AI + ML01 Sep 2022 | 77
Biting the hand that feeds IT
