Social media ban for under-16s 'on the table' in UK - The tech secretary Peter Kyle also said he wanted an "assertive" approach from the regula... - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9gpdrx829o
Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous - CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes ex... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/data_is_the_new_uranium/
Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system - Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating th... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/niantic-uses-pokemon-go-player-data-to-build-ai-navigation-system/ #visualpositioningsystem #largegeospatialmodel #largelanguagemodel #machinelearning #mobilegames #smartphones #videogames #pokemongo #aiethics #chatgpt #chatgtp #niantic #pokemon #biz #ai
The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI - An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/19/1648219/the-us-patent-and-trademark-office-banned-staff-from-using-generative-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Pokemon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI To Navigate the World - Augmented reality gaming company Niantic plans to develop an AI system for navigat... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/19/175239/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
The Vecdec Cyberdeck is More than a Pretty Case - A common criticism we hear of cyberdecks is that functionality too often takes a b... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/19/the-vecdec-cyberdeck-is-more-than-a-pretty-case/ #ergonomickeyboard #peripheralshacks #gesturesensor #cyberdecks #meshtastic #widescreen #lora
Coca-Cola Faces Creative Backlash Over AI Christmas Campaign - Coca-Cola's latest AI-generated Christmas advertisement has sparked criticism from... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/19/1432250/coca-cola-faces-creative-backlash-over-ai-christmas-campaign?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Perplexity's AI Search Engine Can Now Buy Products For You - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Perplexity is rolling out a ne... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/19/0057238/perplexitys-ai-search-engine-can-now-buy-products-for-you?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says - Last week, actor and director Ben Affleck shared his views on AI's role in... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/ben-affleck-warns-that-visual-effects-industry-faces-ai-disruption/ #ai-generatedvideo #aivisualeffects #machinelearning #specialeffects #videosynthesis #benaffleck #filmmaking #tvshows #biz #movies #ai
HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors' Work to AI Company - HarperCollins has partnered with an AI technology company to allow limited use of ... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/18/2142209/harpercollins-confirms-it-has-a-deal-to-sell-authors-work-to-ai-company?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Explicit Deepfake Scandal Shuts Down Pennsylvania School - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An AI-generated nude photo ... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/18/2122251/explicit-deepfake-scandal-shuts-down-pennsylvania-school?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
ChatGPT-4 Beat Doctors at Diagnosing Illness, Study Finds - Dr. Adam Rodman, a Boston-based internal medicine expert, helped design a study te... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/11/18/058208/chatgpt-4-beat-doctors-at-diagnosing-illness-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Google AI Gemini Threatens College Student: 'Human... Please Die' - A Michigan college student writing about the elderly received this suggestion from... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/16/2258231/google-ai-gemini-threatens-college-student-human-please-die?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
AI Lab PleIAs Releases Fully Open Dataset, as AMD, Ai2 Release Open AI Models - French private AI lab PleIAs "is committed to training LLMs in the open," they wri... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/16/0326222/ai-lab-pleias-releases-fully-open-dataset-as-amd-ai2-release-open-ai-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Ask Slashdot: Have AI Coding Tools Killed the Joy of Programming? - Longtime Slashdot reader DaPhil writes: I taught myself to code at 12 years old in... - https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/11/15/2138239/ask-slashdot-have-ai-coding-tools-killed-the-joy-of-programming?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Virgin Media O2 Deploys AI Decoy To Waste Scammers' Time - British telecom Virgin Media O2 has deployed an AI tool to combat phone scammers b... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/15/1531244/virgin-media-o2-deploys-ai-decoy-to-waste-scammers-time?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher - In 2017, eight machine-learning researchers at Google released a groundbre... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/chatgpts-success-could-have-come-sooner-says-former-google-ai-researcher/ #attentionisallyouneed #largelanguagemodels #jakobuszkoreit #biotechnology #aitechnology #transformers #rnavaccines #inceptive #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz #google #openai #gpt-3 #gpt-4 #rna #ai
OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool To Automate Tasks For Users - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: OpenAI is preparing to launch ... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/13/2123257/openai-nears-launch-of-ai-agent-tool-to-automate-tasks-for-users?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
AI Companies Hit Development Hurdles in Race for Advanced Models - OpenAI's latest large language model, known internally as Orion, has fallen short ... - https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/13/1237220/ai-companies-hit-development-hurdles-in-race-for-advanced-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Remember the Tri-Format Floppy Disk? - These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on s... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/12/remember-the-tri-format-floppy-disk/ #retrocomputing #floppydisk #pcformat #atarist #amiga #disk #pc