reader comments 10 with The summer patch cycle shows no signs of slowing down, with tech giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft releasing multiple updates to fix flaws being used in real-life attacks. July also saw serious bugs squashed by enterprise software firms SAP, Citrix, and Oracle. Here’s everything you need to know about the major… Read More »
Enlarge / A Google robot controlled by RT-2. reader comments 17 with On Friday, Google DeepMind announced Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a “first-of-its-kind” vision-language-action (VLA) model that uses data scraped from the Internet to enable better robotic control through plain language commands. The ultimate goal is to create general-purpose robots that can navigate human environments,… Read More »
Enlarge / The four companies say they launched the Frontier Model Forum to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.” Financial Times reader comments 16 with Four of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence companies have formed a group to research increasingly powerful AI and establish best practices for controlling it, as… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “robot journalist.” Midjourney reader comments 66 with Google has been developing tools aimed at helping journalists write news articles, reports The New York Times and Reuters. It has demonstrated one tool, dubbed “Genesis,” to the Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Reportedly, Google is positioning… Read More »
Enlarge / These Corporate Memphis folks are going to have to look elsewhere soon to get their own domain, unless they’re good with Squarespace. reader comments 54 with Eight years after Google Domains launched, and a little more than a year after it graduated out of beta, Google is “winding down following a transition period,”… Read More »
Photo Illustration by Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images reader comments 43 with No wonder Google is having trouble keeping up with policing its app store. Since Monday, researchers have reported that hundreds of Android apps and Chrome extensions with millions of installs from the company’s official marketplaces have included functions for snooping on user… Read More »
Enlarge / On May 22, Benj Edwards (left) moderated a panel featuring Paige Bailey (center), Haiyan Zhang (right) for the Ars Frontiers 2023 session titled, “The Lightning Onset of AI — What Suddenly Changed?” Ars Technica reader comments 28 with On Monday, Ars Technica hosted our Ars Frontiers virtual conference. In our fifth panel, we… Read More »
Enlarge / Photorealistic AI-generated images like this one may distort our sense of history. Google wants to fix that. Midjourney reader comments 70 with On Wednesday at Google I/O 2023, Google announced three new features designed to help people spot AI-generated fake images in search results, reports Bloomberg. The features will identify the known origins… Read More »
reader comments 41 with On Wednesday, Google introduced PaLM 2, a family of foundational language models comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-4. At its Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, Google revealed that it already uses PaLM 2 to power 25 products, including its Bard conversational AI assistant. As a family of large language models (LLMs),… Read More »
reader comments 47 with At Wednesday’s Google I/O conference, Google announced wide availability of its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, Bard, in over 180 countries with no waitlist. It also announced updates such as support for Japanese and Korean, visual responses to queries, integration with Google services, and add-ons that will extend Bard’s capabilities. Similar to how… Read More »