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 Investors are growing increasingly wary of AI.

Investors are growing increasingly wary of AI.

2024-04-29 Techcrunch
The artificial intelligence environment has been seen over and over again as a way to make easy money, specifically for those who already possess substantial amounts of cash. Whether it is the implementation of this technology to replace human operators or the massive amount of investment it has seen during its rise, A...
 Is Google's AI Actually Discovering 'Millions of New Materials?'

Is Google's AI Actually Discovering 'Millions of New Materials?'

2024-04-26 404 Media
During the month of November 2023, the artificial intelligence GNoME was the protagonist of a research within the world of Deep Learning - the result of this analysis led to the publication of a white paper concerning the millions of new materials that the AI claimed to have supposedly discovered - all managed by Googl...
 OpenAI Training Bot Crawls 'World's Lamest Content Farm' 3 Million Times in One Day.

OpenAI Training Bot Crawls 'World's Lamest Content Farm' 3 Million Times in One Day.

2024-04-25 404 Media
OpenAI's spider seems to have got stuck in a web that is too big for its capabilities. The artificial intelligence giant seems, in fact, to have a crawler whose programming has recently been found to be inefficient. John Levine, besides being the author of 'The Internet for Dummies', is also the owner of web.sp.am/., ...
 TechScape: Could AI-generated content be dangerous for our health?

TechScape: Could AI-generated content be dangerous for our health?

2024-04-24 The Guardian
The impact that artificial intelligence has on those who use it on a daily basis is fundamentally unquestionable: whether it be emotional influences dictated by the misuse of ipperrealistic deepfakes or difficulties in maintaining attention as a result of the profound change in online content, it can now be said that t...
 New bill would force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art.

New bill would force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art.

2024-04-23 The Guardian
As is evident from the incessant news reports on a daily basis, major companies in the artificial intelligence sector disproportionately use any kind of photograph, work or image that can be found on the Internet to train their AI systems. This means that huge amounts of copyright-protected content is included within t...
 OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, adds GPT-4 model optimized for Japanese.

OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, adds GPT-4 model optimized for Japanese.

2024-04-22 Techcrunch
The beginning of the week marked OpenAI's arrival in Japan with the recent opening of a new office in Tokyo. To expand their business within Japanese land,a GPT-4 model specifically optimised for the Japanese language was announced. For the first time since the release of the artificial intelligence in question, OpenA...
Rent your idle GPU to generate pornographic AI content

Rent your idle GPU to generate pornographic AI content

2024-04-19 404 Media
Why lend your computing power to scientific projects such as SETI or other initiatives, when you can 'sell' your unused GPU for the creation of AI-generated pornographic content and potentially violate someone's privacy or commit acts of violence? After the hype around virtual currencies and cryptocurrencies, here is ...
 The first Apple-approved emulator for the iPhone has arrived... and been pulled.

The first Apple-approved emulator for the iPhone has arrived... and been pulled.

2024-04-18 The Verge
Recently, the App Store has allowed the presence of applications intended to function as emulators for the system used by Apple's product line. iGBA, the first Game Boy Advance system emulator available for the iPhone, was released recently. Its presence in the App Store, however, did not last long. Shortly after its ...
 Teachers are using AI to grade essays. But some experts are raising ethical concerns.

Teachers are using AI to grade essays. But some experts are raising ethical concerns.

2024-04-17 CNN
During the first few months of the spread of artificial intelligence, the worrying possibility of its misuse by young students was repeatedly rumoured - more than a year after its rise, this technology seems to have become the hero of anyone acting in an academic capacity, whether student or teacher. A professor of st...
 US farms are making an urgent push into AI. It could help feed the world.

US farms are making an urgent push into AI. It could help feed the world.

2024-04-16 BBC
Not all artificial intelligence comes to harm, as already seen in the past. Used carefully and judiciously, this technology proves to be of fundamental importance for the development of various sectors: whether scientific, medical or agricultural. In fact, many US farms have recently started to push towards the use of ...
 Samsung-Backed AI Image Generator Produces Nonconsensual Porn.

Samsung-Backed AI Image Generator Produces Nonconsensual Porn.

2024-04-15 404 Media
Leonardo AI, one of the most widely used artificial intelligences in the Internet world, has recently come under the spotlight thanks to a successful fundraising effort, reaching the impressive sum of 31 million dollars. Another reason for the sudden attention towards this image generator lies behind the ease it offers...
 Insomniac: Spider-Man 2 PlayStation studio victim of huge hack.

Insomniac: Spider-Man 2 PlayStation studio victim of huge hack.

2024-04-13 BBC
The 20th of October 2023 saw the release of the long-awaited 'Spider-Man 2', the recent piece de resistance from Insomniac Games, a video game development company that rose to fame thanks to titles such as 'Spyro' and 'Ratchet & Clank'. The game of the friendly neighbourhood spider has enjoyed considerable success from...
 Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal.

Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal.

2024-04-12 Techcrunch
Back in 2016, Facebook launched a secret operation called 'Project Ghostbusters', aimed at intercepting and deciphering network traffic between users of the Snapchat app and its servers. The ultimate goal was to understand the reasons behind the behaviour of those using the app, so as to be able to compete with Snapcha...
 Meta and Google accused of restricting reproductive health information.

Meta and Google accused of restricting reproductive health information.

2024-04-11 The Guardian
The accessibility to culture and information is a right of any human being, and it should be easier to convey education through the billions of networks and technological supports available today. Nevertheless, two giants of the vast internet world, Meta and Google, have recently been accused of hindering the diffusion...
 Data centre power use 'to surge six-fold in 10 years'.

Data centre power use 'to surge six-fold in 10 years'.

2024-04-10 BBC
Every innovation in the technological environment is bound to permanently change global energy consumption. Due to the 'recent' rise in popularity of artificial intelligence (and quantum computing), it is inevitable that energy consumption will experience significant spikes. According to National Grid, a British multi...
 FTC investigating TikTok over privacy and security.

FTC investigating TikTok over privacy and security.

2024-04-09 CNN
The Tiktok saga continues: in recent months, the Chinese platform has been subjected to a series of investigations and accusations, but the situation seems to be getting worse and worse. Officially regarded as a threat to US citizens by the House of Representatives, there has recently been a proposal to ban the applica...