The world of Secret Invasion is decidedly sketchy. With thousands of shapeshifting Skrulls on Earth, you can’t trust what you think you’re seeing. One second, you’re looking at Nick Fury or an esteemed world leader; the next, you see their face morph into something (or someone) else entirely. This is Read more…
Meta says its new speech-generating AI model is too dangerous for public release. Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: “There are many exciting use cases for generative speech models, but Read more…
A project using artificial intelligence to track social media abuse aimed at players at the 2022 World Cup identified more than 300 people whose details are being given to law enforcement, FIFA said Sunday. The people made “abusive, discriminatory, or threatening posts [or] comments” on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Read more…
A new Harris Poll shared exclusively with Fast Company found that most Americans would prefer to live “in a simpler era before everyone was obsessed with screens and social media,” reports Fast Company, adding “this sentiment is especially strong among older millennials and Gen Xers.” The Wrap summarizes the poll Read more…
Over the past few years, restaurants from White Castle to Wendy’s have been investing in artificial intelligence tech for drive-thrus… [E]fforts have ramped up recently, with two announcements in May. CKE Restaurants (owner of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.) said it will roll out AI ordering capability more broadly after a Read more…
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham last week took to Twitter to lament those who use AI or other excuses for not learning to code. “A generation ago some people were saying there was no point in learning to program because all the programming jobs would be outsourced to India,” Graham Read more…
Quanta magazine thinks there’s a better alternative to the artificial neural networks (or ANNs) powering AI systems. For one, ANNs are “super power-hungry,” said Cornelia Fermüller, a computer scientist at the University of Maryland. “And the other issue is [their] lack of transparency.” Such systems are so complicated that no Read more…