Introduction to Computer Science (CS50) will be encouraged to use AI to help them debug code, give feedback on their designs, and answer individual questions about error messages and unfamiliar lines of code. “Our own hope is that, through AI, we can eventually approximate a 1:1 teacher [to] student ratio Read more…
A significant proportion of people paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new study has found. It takes an incredible amount of data to train AI systems to perform specific tasks accurately and reliably. Many companies pay gig workers on platforms like Mechanical Read more…
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…