There is a new type of online influencer that is gaining popularity – the AI-generated avatar. Dozens of these fictional characters, like Aika Kittie and Alexis Ivyedge, have amassed hundreds of thousands of Instagram and Twitter followers with their flawless yet eerie photos. Behind these AI influencers are real creators collaborating in closed online communities […]
Mark Zuckerberg Boasts Meta’s AI Strategy Banks on Billions of Posts We Handed Over Meta’s plan to beat the competition in artificial intelligence relies heavily on the billions of images, posts, comments and videos that users have freely shared on its platforms over the years. In the company’s recent earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained
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Apple CEO Tim Cook provided a tantalizing tease regarding Apple’s future artificial intelligence plans during the company’s earnings call on Thursday. While light on specifics, Cook’s remarks indicated Apple intends to compete with AI leaders like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and OpenAI. Cook stated, “Let me just say that I think there’s a huge opportunity for
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ChatGPT recently announced a new feature that allows users to bring in custom AI personalities, called “GPTs”, into conversations by using @ mentions. This opens up new possibilities for collaborating with different expert roles within ChatGPT’s platform. Previously, sharing information between GPT profiles required manually copying text between chat windows and re-explaining context. The new
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The Crown Prosecution Service has issued new guidelines instructing prosecutors to consider bringing charges against “deepfake” images, as recent online safety laws come into effect. Deepfakes are digitally manipulated images of people published with malicious intent. The guidelines also cover similar abusive behaviors like “downblousing,” capturing unwanted images down a woman’s top, and “cyberflashing,” sending
AI skills are now mandatory for all job seekers. With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, employers expect candidates to have hands-on experience applying AI, not just theoretical knowledge. As someone working with AI daily, I have advice on how to stand out. Getting Hired in 2024: How to Demonstrate Your AI Skills to
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As dawn broke on Oct. 7, air-raid sirens blasted out across Tel Aviv, alerting residents to take shelter from an apparent attack. Messages on cell phones soon revealed that Hamas gunmen were allegedly waging mass slaughter on Israelis and seizing hundreds of hostages less than an hour away. Over 1,200 Israelis were reported dead, and
Enterprises are moving with breakneck speed to implement generative artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, seeing transformative potential in the nascent technology. However, the rapid pace of deployment is testing the risk tolerance of IT departments more accustomed to cautious adoption curves. According to a new study from Glean and ISG surveying 224 IT executives, budgets
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A first-of-its-kind computer can perform calculations by harnessing the random “noise” inherent in physical systems. Built using standard commercial components, this prototype “thermodynamic computer” could eventually run artificial intelligence programs more efficiently than conventional computers. First “Thermodynamic Computer” Exploits Random Noise for Calculations Rather than representing calculations as sequences of 1s and 0s activated by
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CodiumAI‘s New AI Coding Assistant AlphaCodium Outperforms Google’s AlphaCode Tel Aviv-based startup CodiumAI has developed AlphaCodium, an open source AI coding assistant that helps developers write code faster with zero bugs. AlphaCodium was inspired by Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode but has now surpassed it in performance. AlphaCodium was tested on the CodeContests benchmark containing 10,000 competitive
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