MIT professors create Humane UXD class merging computer science and anthropology to design chatbots as moral partners, not distractions. Class aims to teach students to integrate human needs into AI programming, funded by MIT Morningside Academy for Design.
New publishing scams prey on authors' dreams, using automated AI to lure in unsuspecting writers like Jon Cocks, who poured years of research and emotion into his debut novel, Angel of Aleppo. The scams, reminiscent of lonely hearts hoaxes, promise literary acclaim but deliver only deception and heartache.
AI success hinges on understanding it as a skill, not a shortcut. Training reveals a professional divide: reliance vs avoidance.
Historian Rutger Bregman urges consumers to boycott OpenAI's ChatGPT due to Pentagon deal. Bregman reveals ChatGPT's ties to Trump administration's authoritarian infrastructure.
Game developers and artists elevate immersive experiences on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs with streamlined AI video generation tools. NVIDIA's updates at GDC include ComfyUI's simplified interface, RTX Video Super Resolution, and NVFP4 and FP8 model variants for FLUX.
Summary: Roach Infestation Optimization (RIO) is a bio-inspired numerical optimization algorithm based on cockroach behavior. The demo program successfully minimizes the Rastrigin function in 8 dimensions, showcasing the algorithm's effectiveness.
Elon Musk's xAI gets approval to double methane gas turbines at 'Colossus 2' in Mississippi, boosting power for AI supercomputers and Grok tool.
The Society of Authors launches scheme to identify human-authored books amidst AI flood at London Book Fair. Authors can register and display "Human Authored" logo on their books.
Cells in cancerous tumors evolve and adapt like Darwin's finches. Matthew G. Jones at MIT uses AI to decode tumor evolution, focusing on extrachromosomal DNA amplifications.
Oumi simplifies LLM fine-tuning on Amazon EC2, integrating data synthesis, training, and evaluation. Amazon Bedrock streamlines managed inference post-fine-tuning, eliminating the need for manual infrastructure management.
Teen's violent plans shared with ChatGPT lead to tragic mass shooting in Canada. OpenAI faces lawsuit for failure to prevent attack.
AI is transforming education, raising concerns for the future of humanities. Stanford professor Lea Pao aims to engage students offline to prevent reliance on AI.
AI accelerates without limits or safety measures, leading to a deadly collision in Bruce Holsinger's novel 'Culpability'. Peter Lewis, from Essential, delves into AI ethics on Per Capita's Burning Platforms podcast.
MIT researchers developed an AI-driven system for long-term visual tasks, outperforming existing methods by 2x. The system combines vision-language models with formal planning for a 70% success rate, adaptable to new challenges.
Meta Platforms acquires Moltbook, a platform for AI agents, bringing co-founders Schlicht and Parr into its AI research unit. The duo will join Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by former Scale AI CEO Wang, on March 16.