Web infrastructure provider Cloudflare unveiled “AI Labyrinth” this week, a feature designed to thwart unauthorized AI data scraping by feeding bots realistic but irrelevant content instead of blocking them outright. The system lures crawlers into a “maze” of AI-generated pages containing neutral scientific information, deliberately wasting computing resources of those Read more…
Computer programming jobs in the US have declined by more than a quarter over the past two years, placing the profession among the 10 hardest-hit occupations of 420-plus jobs tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and potentially signaling the first concrete evidence of artificial intelligence replacing workers. The timing Read more…
Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of AI is an international scientific society. Recently 25 of its AI researchers surveyed 475 respondents in the AAAI community about “the trajectory of AI research” — and their results were surprising. Futurism calls the results “a resounding rebuff to the tech Read more…
Besides administering standardized pre-college tests, America’s nonprofit College Board designs college-level classes that high school students can take. But now they’re also crafting courses “not just with higher education at the table, but industry partners such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the technology giant IBM,” reports Education Week. Read more…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday walked back comments he made in January, when he cast doubt on whether useful quantum computers would hit the market in the next 15 years. At Nvidia’s “Quantum Day” event, part of the company’s annual GTC Conference, Huang admitted that his comments came out Read more…
Apple is undergoing a rare shake-up of its executive ranks, aiming to get its artificial intelligence efforts back on track after months of delays and stumbles. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has lost confidence in the ability of AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development, so he’s moving Read more…
The credit-card market has quietly split in two: one offering generous benefits to wealthy Americans, the other offering expensive debt to the poor. Credit-card balances have reached an all-time high of $1.2 trillion, with serious delinquency rates climbing to their highest point since the Great Recession. “Transactors” pay off balances Read more…