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AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
With a new technique, a robot can reason efficiently about moving objects using more than just its fingertips.
SMART launches research group to advance AI, automation, and the future of work
Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S) will design technology, training programs, and institutions for successful human-machine collaboration.
Wand.app raises $4.2M to scale its AI-powered creative tool for artists
Wand.app, an AI-powered creative tool that gives artists the ability to manually customize and visualize their ideas, has raised $4.2 million in seed funding led by O’Shaughnessy Ventures. Unlike AI-powered creative tools that provide limited control over the content they generate, which can be alienating to artists who have specific visions for what they want […]
Kids Are Going Back to School. So Is ChatGPT
Teachers are caught between cracking down on cheating with generative AI and using it to help empower students. It’s going to be a challenging year.
Microsoft Copilot Cheat Sheet: Complete Guide for 2023
This comprehensive guide about Microsoft Copilot includes details about the AI product's benefits, pricing, functional integrations and alternatives.
Generative AI: Cybersecurity Weapon, But Not Without Adaptable, Creative (Human) Thinkers
Cybersecurity expert Kayne McGladrey speaks about why AI cannot do what creative people can, and the important role of generative AI in SOCs.
Upwork Reveals Top 10 Generative AI-Related Skills and Hires in 2023
Generative AI job posts on Upwork were up more than 1,000% in Q2 2023, and hiring managers are seeking freelance and full-time employees.
Machine-learning system based on light could yield more powerful, efficient large language models
MIT system demonstrates greater than 100-fold improvement in energy efficiency and a 25-fold improvement in compute density compared with current systems.
VMware Explore 2023: Keynote Highlights
Explore enterprise applications and infrastructure, AI, tools for the remote workforce, machine learning, and more from VMware Explore 2023.
Watsonx Code Assistant Adds COBOL-to-Java Translations on IBM Z
Generative AI comes to mainframe application modernization with a model trained on more than 80 code languages and 1.5 trillion tokens of data.
Snapchat is expanding further into generative AI with ‘Dreams’
Snapchat is preparing to further expand into generative AI features, after earlier launching its AI-powered chatbot My AI which can now respond with a Snap back, not just text. With the company’s forthcoming generative AI feature called “Dreams,” Snap will again experiment with AI images — but soon, those images may contain you and your […]
YouTube is working on a plan to compensate artists and rightsholders for AI music
YouTube announced today how it plans to approach the impact AI technology is having on the music industry with regard to its video hosting platform and its existing partnerships across the music industry, including with artists, labels and other rightsholders. While the company is bullish on AI’s potential to “enhance music’s unique creative expression,” it […]
Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living
AI technologies promise more chatbots and replicas of people who have passed. But giving voice to the dead comes at a human cost.
Scammers Used ChatGPT to Unleash a Crypto Botnet on X
A botnet apparently connected to ChatGPT shows how easily, and effectively, artificial intelligence can be harnessed for disinformation.
How Index Ventures jumped to the front of the AI GPU line
Earlier this week, the New York Times shone a light on some of the desperation that founders are experiencing as they try and fail to secure compute power for their nascent artificial intelligence startups, thanks to the big companies (and even rich nations) racing to snatch them up. One founder reportedly said of the graphics […]
Study: Reskilling Is Inevitable As AI Changes How We Work
Learning new skills is part of the fabric of today's technological advancement. Leaders need to make sure workers can adjust and know the reasoning behind it.
Artificial intelligence for augmentation and productivity
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing awards seed grants to seven interdisciplinary projects exploring AI-augmented management.
Pitch Deck Teardown: DeckMatch’s $1M seed deck
Given that DeckMatch is a tool that evaluates pitch decks, we decided to tear down the deck it used to raise a $1 million seed round.
How an Iowa School District Used ChatGPT to Ban Books
Under a new law, schools in Iowa have to remove titles with specific sexual content from libraries. Asking an AI chatbot proved to be the easiest way. It flagged The Handmaid’s Tale and Beloved.
How old are you, biologically? AI can tell your 'true' age by looking at your chest
Scientists have developed an AI model that accurately estimates a patient's age, using chest radiographs of healthy individuals collected from multiple facilities. Furthermore, they found a positive relationship between differences in the AI-estimated and chronological ages and a variety of chronic diseases, such as hypertension, hyperuricemia, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In the future, it is expected that AI biomarkers will be developed to predict life expectancy, estimate the severity of chronic diseases, and forecast surgery-related risks.
