Enlarge / An AI-generated image of the White House in front of a cybernetic background. Midjourney reader comments 22 with On Thursday, the White House announced a surprising collaboration between top AI developers, including OpenAI, Google, Antrhopic, Hugging Face, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Stability AI, to participate in a public evaluation of their generative AI systems… Read More »
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet the ‘Investing in America Cabinet’ to discuss the Investing in America agenda in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 5. reader comments 46 with On Thursday, President Joe Biden held a meeting at the White House with… Read More »
Enlarge / Geoffrey Hinton, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute, speaks during The International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) Toronto Global Forum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. Getty Images / Benj Edwards reader comments 6 with According to the New York Times, AI pioneer Dr. Geoffrey Hinton has resigned… Read More »
Enlarge / The integration of its latest generative AI, which also powers its Bard chatbot, means Google will be able to produce far more sophisticated campaigns. reader comments 13 with Share this story Google plans to introduce generative artificial intelligence into its advertising business over the coming months, as Big Tech groups rush to incorporate… Read More »
Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 80% of browser share, says that something has “not enough interest from the entire ecosystem,” what does that mean, exactly? Aurich Lawson reader comments 70 with Share this story Chrome developers’ decision to remove support for a compressed image format that Google helped develop is just… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI generated image of a “colorful data center.” Midjourney reader comments 15 with Share this story On Thursday, Amazon released a new suite of AI technologies, including foundational large language models (LLMs) called Titan and a cloud computing service called Bedrock, reports Reuters. The move comes as competitors Microsoft and Google integrate… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of two robots fighting in an arena. Benj Edwards / Midjourney reader comments 188 with Share this story In today’s world of generative AI chatbots, we’ve witnessed the sudden rise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, introduced in November, followed by Bing Chat in February and Google’s Bard in March. We decided to… Read More »
Enlarge / Stills from an AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti that has been heating up the Internet. reader comments 82 with Share this story Amid this past week’s controversies in AI over regulation, fears of world-ending doom, and job disruption, the clouds have briefly parted. For a brief and shining moment, we can… Read More »
reader comments 23 with Share this story On Tuesday, Google made client-side encryption available to a limited set of Gmail and Calendar users in a move designed to give them more control over who sees sensitive communications and schedules. Client-side encryption is a generic term for any sort of encryption that’s applied to data before… Read More »
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 49 with Share this story On Friday, Meta announced a new AI-powered large language model (LLM) called LLaMA-13B that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 model despite being “10x smaller.” Smaller-sized AI models could lead to running ChatGPT-style language assistants locally on devices such as PCs and smartphones.… Read More »