Enlarge / MineDojo’s AI can perform complex tasks in Minecraft. reader comments 12 with 0 posters participating Share this story A paper describing MineDojo, Nvidia’s generalist AI agent that can perform actions from written prompts in Minecraft, won an Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Paper Award at the 2022 NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference, Nvidia… Read More »
Enlarge / A screenshot of an online game of Diplomacy, including a running chat dialog, provided by a Cicero researcher. reader comments 38 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, Meta AI announced the development of Cicero, which it clams is the first AI to achieve human-level performance in the strategic board game… Read More »
Enlarge / An on-air capture of Weatherscan in 2020. Weatherscan shows 24/7 weather forecasts controlled by computer. reader comments 24 with 20 posters participating Share this story In the early 2000s, Americans who wanted to catch the local weather forecast at any time might turn on their TV and switch over to Weatherscan, a 24-hour… Read More »
Enlarge / “Sarah” from Virtua Fighter gets an AI makeover thanks to Stable Diffusion and a fan named Colin Williamson. reader comments 36 with 32 posters participating Share this story In 1993, Sega’s Virtual Fighter arcade game broke new ground with fully 3D polygonal graphics, a first for a fighting game. Thanks to a Twitter… Read More »
Enlarge / As James Earl Jones retires, Darth Vader’s voice will come courtesy of voice-cloning software called Respeecher. Lucasfilm / Benj Edwards reader comments 162 with 70 posters participating Share this story During the creation of the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series, James Earl Jones signed off on allowing Disney to replicate his vocal performance as… Read More »
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nvidia doesn’t officially announce its second-quarter financial results until the end of the month, but the company is trying to soften the blow by announcing preliminary results today. And as with so many other tech companies in the last month, the results are mixed at best. With $6.7 billion in revenue,… Read More »
Enlarge / Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to modelllllllll! (credit: FMWC) If you watched ESPN2 during its stint last weekend as “ESPN8: The Ocho,” you may have seen some odd, meme-friendly competitions, including corgi racing, precision paper airplane tossing, and slippery stair climbing. Or you might have seen “Excel Esports: All-Star Battle,” a tournament in… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 83 with 54 posters participating, including story author Share this story Nvidia has agreed to pay $5.5 million in fines to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges that it failed to disclose how many of its GPUs were being sold for cryptocurrency mining, the agency announced today.… Read More »
Enlarge / Sam Zeloof completed this homemade computer chip with 1,200 transistors, seen under a magnifying glass, in August 2021. reader comments 65 with 43 posters participating Share this story In August, chipmaker Intel revealed new details about its plan to build a “mega-fab” on US soil, a $100 billion factory where 10,000 workers will… Read More »