Proton, the secure email suite, transitions to a nonprofit foundation led by CEO Andy Yen. Foundation includes Sir Tim Berners-Lee, aims to prioritize people over profits.
Tech evangelists advocate for AI education amid global school closures, but author Alex Beard warns of growing risks. 850 million children affected.
SoftBank is developing AI-powered "emotion-canceling" tech to alter angry customer voices for calmer calls with customer service. The project aims to reduce operator stress, with plans for launch by March 2026, sparking mixed reactions online.
IMF report recommends fiscal policies to address AI carbon emissions. Generative AI advances at breakneck speed.
Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, leads the fight against surveillance and data sharing. Organized Google walkouts in 2018 to protest state surveillance and sexual misconduct.
Businesses can modernize document handling with intelligent automation on AWS, optimizing workflows and enhancing accuracy. AI can revolutionize financial processes by automatically extracting data from emails, reducing costs and improving efficiency.
MIT researchers found that large language models can understand the visual world and generate complex scenes. By querying LLMs to self-correct code for images, they improved simple drawings and trained a vision system without using visual data.
Nvidia surpasses Microsoft and Apple to become world's most valuable company with $3.34tn market cap, driven by AI chip dominance. Shares soar as chipmaker overtakes Apple, solidifying position in tech market.
McDonald’s ends AI chatbot drive-thru test after wrong order viral videos raise concerns. Over 100 US locations to remove automated order systems.
Implementing k-means data clustering from scratch using JavaScript led to a simpler, more understandable version. The demo showcases encoding and normalizing data for the k-means algorithm in an engaging way.
Name entity recognition (NER) extracts entities from text, traditionally requiring fine-tuning. New large language models enable zero-shot NER, like Amazon Bedrock's LLMs, revolutionizing entity extraction.
AI is becoming companions for humans, offering therapy and even love. But is it a solution to loneliness or just a profit-making tool for big tech? Spike Jonze's 'Her' foreshadowed this trend, now seen in AI assistants like Amazon's Alexa and ChatGPT with Scarlett Johansson's voice.
Summary: The "Communicative Agents for Software Development" paper introduces ChatDev, an AI-powered virtual software development company using large language models to streamline coding processes through natural language communication. ChatDev aims to automate software creation, addressing the challenge of skill and capital limitations in software development, with promising success leveraging...
Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence book sparked debates on the potential dangers of superintelligent machines, prompting calls for enhanced military defense. Despite criticism, the book successfully brought the concept of AI takeover from academia to mainstream consciousness.
Pope Francis urges G7 leaders to ban autonomous weapons in war, emphasizing humans should make life-and-death decisions, not machines. Historic address highlights the power to shape AI as a tool for creativity or terror.