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Five MIT faculty members take on Cancer Grand Challenges
Joining three teams backed by a total of $75 million, MIT researchers will tackle some of cancer’s toughest challenges.
VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it
Arjun Sethi speaks with the confidence of someone who knows more than other people, or at least knows that sounding highly confident can shape perception. Either way, when he tells me over Zoom that “in five years, I’ll have 50% of the world’s private data” at his fingertips, and that it will be “impossible to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Shaped like information
Hey look, it's a guide to basic shapes!Prompt: "Please generate a colorful guide to basic geometric shapes, as an aid to children learning to identify basic shapes."Not only does it have the basic shapes like circle, tringle, hectanbie, and sqale, it also has some
Bonus: More shape shaped shapes
The image I shared in my main post isn't one of the more incorrect examples of DALL-E3 generated guides - it's actually one of the more correct ones.Here's another generated image from the same prompt.Prompt: "Please generate a colorful guide to
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions.
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions.
3 Questions: What you need to know about audio deepfakes
MIT CSAIL postdoc Nauman Dawalatabad explores ethical considerations, challenges in spear-phishing defense, and the optimistic future of AI-created voices across various sectors.
Price Drop: This AI-powered Productivity Tool is Only $20
Taskio can help you get your life in order, no matter what you do. Right now, a lifetime subscription is on sale for just $19.99 at TechRepublic Academy.
Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future
Startups and tech giants are trying to move from chatbots that offer help via text, to AI agents that can get stuff done. Recent demos include an AI coder called Devin and agents that play videogames.
Microsoft Copilot Cheat Sheet: Price, Versions & Benefits
On March 12, Microsoft added OpenAI's powerful GPT-4 Turbo generative model to the free tier of the Copilot AI assistant.
Regulators Need AI Expertise. They Can't Afford It
The European AI Office and the UK government are trying to hire experts to study and regulate the AI boom—but are offering salaries far short of industry compensation.
Budget, Robodebt Failures Making Australian Government Hesitant About Citizen-Facing AI
According to Gartner, the Australian government is enthusiastic about AI; however, Robodebt and other mistakes of the past, as well as small budgets, are forcing them to be selective.
New AI technology enables 3D capture and editing of real-life objects
Imagine performing a sweep around an object with your smartphone and getting a realistic, fully editable 3D model that you can view from any angle -- this is fast becoming reality, thanks to advances in AI. Researchers have unveiled new AI technology for doing exactly this. Soon, rather than merely taking 2D photos, everyday consumers will be able to take 3D captures of real-life objects and edit their shapes and appearance as they wish, just as easily as they would with regular 2D photos today.
Microsoft’s Security Copilot Enters General Availability
Microsoft’s AI chatbot and data aggregator is open for security business on April 1, with a new per-unit pricing model.
EU’s AI Act: Europe’s New Rules for Artificial Intelligence
Europe's AI legislation, adopted March 13, attempts to strike a tricky balance between promoting innovation and protecting citizens' rights.
Leveraging an AI-powered Salesforce CRM Will Require Better Data Management
APAC IT leaders will need to be pragmatic about data management, budgets and roadmaps to deliver AI-powered CRM, says Rimini Street.
Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play 'Goat Simulator 3'
These AI agents can adapt to games they haven't played before. Google made them by feeding data on how humans play different video games to a language model like those behind the latest chatbots.
Volley’s AI-enabled ball machine for racquet sports can simulate gameplay
A new sports tech startup, Volley, aims to revolutionize the way racquet sports players (platform tennis, tennis, padel and pickleball) train with its AI-enabled sports training machine. Unlike traditional tennis ball machines that simply launch balls at varying speeds and heights, Volley’s trainer robot leverages AI and vision software to collect data as you play, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Anti-AI sentiment gets big applause at SXSW 2024 as moviemaker dubs AI cheerleading as ‘terrifying bullsh**’
A whiff of anti-AI sentiment got big applause at the SXSW conference in Austin on Tuesday afternoon. Award-winning writers and directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as “DANIELS,” originally premiered their film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” at SXSW in 2022. The movie later went on to win seven Oscars, including Best Picture, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
