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Power Shortage To Hit 40% of AI Data Centres by 2027, Gartner Warns - 40% of AI data centers will face operational constraints due to power shortages by... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/12/1758224/power-shortage-to-hit-40-of-ai-data-centres-by-2027-gartner-warns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI - In the short-term, the most dangerous thing about AI language models may b... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/join-ars-live-nov-19-to-dissect-microsofts-rogue-ai-experiment/ #arsliveconversations #largelanguagemodels #microsoftcopilot #promptinjections #machinelearning #promptinjection #manipulativeai #simonwillison #benjedwards #microsoft #aiethics #bingchat #arslive #biz⁢ #openai #gpt-4 #ai

Generative AI Doesn't Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find - Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/10/1911204/generative-ai-doesnt-have-a-coherent-understanding-of-the-world-mit-researchers-find?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Salesforce to Hire 1,000 People for Big AI Product Sales Push - Salesforce "plans to hire more than 1,000 workers to sell its new generative AI ag... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/10/1819213/salesforce-to-hire-1000-people-for-big-ai-product-sales-push?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Here’s Code for that AI-Generated Minecraft Clone - A little while ago Oasis was showcased on social media, billing itself as the worl... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/09/heres-code-for-that-ai-generated-minecraft-clone/ #artificialintelligence #diffusionmodel #imagegenerator #gameengine #games #ai

How Samsung Fell Behind in the AI Boom - and Lost $126 Billion in Market Value - After missing a chance to capitalize on the AI boom, "Samsung's profit has plunged... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/11/09/1853256/how-samsung-fell-behind-in-the-ai-boom---and-lost-126-billion-in-market-value?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Even Microsoft Notepad Is Getting AI Text Editing Now - Microsoft is introducing a feature to Notepad called Rewrite that will let you use... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/07/224248/even-microsoft-notepad-is-getting-ai-text-editing-now?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

The Other Election Night Winner: Perplexity - AI startup Perplexity demonstrated strong performance in real-time during Tuesday ... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/07/0330223/the-other-election-night-winner-perplexity?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

OpenAI Acquires Chat.com - OpenAI has acquired the chat.com domain name, likely for well over $10 million. Op... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/06/224243/openai-acquires-chatcom?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

AI Workers Seek Whistleblower Cover To Expose Emerging Threats - Workers at AI companies want Congress to grant them specific whistleblower protect... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/06/1513225/ai-workers-seek-whistleblower-cover-to-expose-emerging-threats?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

AI's Huge Power Needs Give Oil Majors Incentive To Invest in Renewables, Says Adnoc Boss - Surging AI demand could push major oil companies to reinvest in renewable energy [... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/06/1352230/ais-huge-power-needs-give-oil-majors-incentive-to-invest-in-renewables-says-adnoc-boss?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Meta Permits Its AI Models To Be Used For US Military Purposes - An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta will allow U.S. ... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/05/043209/meta-permits-its-ai-models-to-be-used-for-us-military-purposes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Bitcoin and Crypto, Promoted by Trump, Brace for Election Volatility - Many crypto investors hope that a victory for Donald Trump could propel the price of Bitc... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/technology/crypto-bitcoin-price-trump-election.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #electionshouseofrepresentatives #presidentialelectionof2024 #computersandtheinternet #bitcoin(currency) #virtualcurrency #harriskamalad #trumpdonaldj

Prime Video Will Let You Summon AI To Recap What You're Watching - Amazon's Prime Video has introduced "X-Ray Recaps," a generative AI feature that w... - https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/11/04/2148215/prime-video-will-let-you-summon-ai-to-recap-what-youre-watching?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Perplexity Will Show Live US Election Results Despite AI Accuracy Warnings - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Friday, Perplexity launc... - https://politics.slashdot.org/story/24/11/04/2130256/perplexity-will-show-live-us-election-results-despite-ai-accuracy-warnings?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright - On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-d... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/new-zemeckis-film-used-ai-to-de-age-tom-hanks-and-robin-wright/ #aiimagegenerator #facereplacement #machinelearning #imagesynthesis #robertzemeckis #specialeffects #videosynthesis #generativeai #robinwright #metaphysic #deepfakes #de-aging #herefilm #tomhanks #biz⁢ #runway #films #ai

Leaked Training Shows Doctors In New York's Biggest Hospital System Using AI - Slashdot reader samleecole shared this report from 404 Media:

Northwell Health, N... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/11/03/2145204/leaked-training-shows-doctors-in-new-yorks-biggest-hospital-system-using-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

The Broken Promise of USB-C - Can we talk about the cables in our lives? I’ll start: I have a circa-2020 iPhone, which ... - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/usb-c-is-not-universal/680502/?utm_source=feed

AI Bug Bounty Program Finds 34 Flaws in Open-Source Tools - Slashdot reader spatwei shared this report from SC World:

Nearly three dozen fla... - https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/03/0123205/ai-bug-bounty-program-finds-34-flaws-in-open-source-tools?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Waymo Explores Using Google's Gemini To Train Its Robotaxis - Waymo is advancing autonomous driving with a new training model for its robotaxis ... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/01/2150228/waymo-explores-using-googles-gemini-to-train-its-robotaxis?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai