‘It’s fundamental’: WPP chief on how AI has revolutionised advertising
Mark Read says artificial intelligence is helping it win clients keen to tap into the technology’s potential
AWS and Hugging Face expand partnership to make AI more accessible
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Hugging Face have announced an expanded collaboration to accelerate the training and deployment of models for generative AI applications.
AI art replicates inequity at scale. We need to learn about its biases – and outsmart the algorithm | Tracey Spicer
An artist used Midjourney to design the cover of Tracey Spicer’s upcoming book. The process, she found, was exciting – and terrifying
China Chases ChatGPT’s Success
A wave of Chinese tech companies are announcing their own A.I.-powered chatbots — but face hurdles imposed by their own government.
‘Political propaganda’: China clamps down on access to ChatGPT
Leading tech firms reportedly ordered to remove workarounds allowing access to US-based service
Surprising Study Finds Infants Outperform AI in “Commonsense Psychology”
New study shows how infants are more adept at spotting motivations that drive human behavior. Infants outperform artificial intelligence in detecting what motivates other people’s actions, finds a new study by a team of psychology and data science researchers.
Opinion | Microsoft Is Sacrificing Its Ethical Principles to Win the A.I. Race
By launching Bing, Microsoft is abandoning the ethical principles it had carefully crafted around A.I.
Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’
Tasks such as shopping likely to have most automation, while caring for young or old least likely to be affected, says report
A survey of over 17,000 people indicates only half of us are willing to trust AI at work
AI is inevitably entering the workplace – some people are more OK with it than others. But do we trust this technology?
Opinion | We’re Unprepared for the A.I. Gold Rush
Should we apply the brakes on this rapidly developing technology — or let it develop and deal with problems as they arise?
Using model-driven deep learning to achieve high-fidelity 4K color holographic display
In 2009, the IMAX 3D film "Avatar" swept the global film market. A few years later, the Hatsune Miku 3D concert attracted all anime fans' attention. And recently AR/VR 3D headwear devices led to a booming development of the metaverse. Each progress in the 3D display field brings essential social concerns and economic benefits.
Diffractive optical networks use object shifts for performance boost
Optical computing has been gaining wide interest for machine learning applications because of the massive parallelism and bandwidth of optics. Diffractive networks provide one such computing paradigm based on the transformation of the input light as it diffracts through a set of spatially-engineered surfaces, performing computation at the speed of light propagation without requiring any external power apart from the input light beam.
Worried about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence? How Qualcomm is trying to humanize tech
For the last five or so years, Qualcomm has bet big on bringing more artificial intelligence to smartphones, laptops, vehicles, smart infrastructure and other devices in the field—or what the company calls the "connected intelligent edge."
AI experts suggest 39% of time currently spent on chores could be automated within the next decade
On average, 39% of time currently spent on unpaid domestic work could be automated within the next decade, suggest AI experts from the UK and Japan. The findings are published in PLOS ONE by a team led by Ekaterina Hertog at the University Oxford, UK, and colleagues in Japan.
Five emerging trends that could change our lives online
The way we live our lives online is rapidly changing. Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality and innovations such as blockchain—a kind of digital record for transactions—are set to transform the online world, affecting everything from social media to how people and businesses make money from their creativity.
Sci-fi magazine bans hundreds of AI chatbot authors
An American science fiction magazine said it had stopped accepting submissions and banned hundreds of authors after being deluged with stories written by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.
Microsoft brings Bing chatbot to phones after curbing quirks
Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream—less than a week after making major fixes to stop the artificially intelligent search engine from going off the rails.
Study shows VR users in the metaverse can be identified using head and hand motion data
A team of computer scientists from UC Berkeley, RWTH Aachen and Unanimous AI, has found that users moving around virtually in the metaverse can be identified using nothing more than data received from head and hand sensors. The group has been studying privacy issues regarding users engaging with virtual reality ecosystems and has found that makers of VR games can easily identify who is involved by analyzing head and hand motion data.