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School of Engineering welcomes Songyee Yoon PhD ’00 as visiting innovation scholar

A visionary entrepreneur and innovator, Yoon will focus on entrepreneurship, supporting female engineers, and fostering inclusive innovation.

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Alpha3D wants to accelerate digital asset and AI-powered generation through cheaper, hyper-scaling technology

In the artificial intelligence world, there’s no shortage of image or text generators that allow users to spur up content with the push of a button. Alpha3D, a generative AI-powered platform, is participating in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 a participant of the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort in hopes of showcasing a technology that can hyper-scale […]

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Alpha3D wants to accelerate digital asset and AI-powered generation through cheaper, hyperscaling technology

Alpha3D, a generative AI–powered platform, is a participant of the Startup Battlefield 200 cohort to showcase a technology that can hyperscale digital assets.

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What an AI-Generated Medieval Village Means for the Future of Art

Spiral Town, which has jumped from Reddit to X to everywhere, is helping to usher in a hopeful but increasingly dangerous era of artificiality.

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OpenAI’s Dall-E 3 Is an Art Generator Powered by ChatGPT

OpenAI has launched Dall-E 3, which uses ChatGPT to take the pain out of prompting. Now you can modify artwork by simply talking to the chatbot.

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Amazon Upgrades Alexa for the ChatGPT Era

A sweeping upgrade to Amazon’s Alexa taps AI technology like that behind ChatGPT and also allows the virtual assistant to attempt to read body language.

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‘Haywire’ Australian IT Skills Market Prompts Logicalis to Add Talent as a Service

IT solutions and managed services provider Logicalis is planning to help skills-deprived Australian CIOs and IT managers get projects done with a new plug-and-play Talent Services offering.

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Meet the 2023-24 Accenture Fellows

The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology announces the 2023-24 graduate fellows.

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2023-2024 Accenture Fellows advance technology at the crossroads of business and society

The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology announces new graduate fellows.

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Four Lincoln Laboratory technologies win five 2023 R&D 100 awards

Inventions in medical imaging, aircrew scheduling, data security, and quantum networking are named among the year’s most innovative new products.

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Assessing unintended consequences in AI-based neurosurgical training

A new study shows that human instruction is still necessary to detect and compensate for unintended, and sometimes negative, changes in neurosurgeon behavior after virtual reality AI training. This finding has implications for other fields of training.

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Australia Is Adapting Fast to a Generative AI World

Australia’s private and public sectors have been embracing aspects of generative AI throughout 2023 while trying to stay ahead of the risks. IT professionals are helping to triage and deliver future use cases.

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DeepMind’s New AI Can Predict Genetic Diseases

AlphaMissense, a new model from Google’s artificial intelligence team, analyzes the effects of DNA mutations and will accelerate research into rare diseases.

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Get Ready for ChatGPT-Style AI Chatbots That Do Your Boring Chores

Move over, Siri. Startups are using the technology behind ChatGPT to build more capable AI agents that can control your computer and access the web to get things done—with sometimes chaotic results.

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The Fall of Babylon Is a Warning for AI Unicorns

When it went public in 2021, Babylon Health was valued at over $4 billion. Now it has declared bankruptcy. Insiders say it could never live up to its hype.

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Google’s Bard chatbot can now tap into your Google apps, double check answers and more

Google today is releasing a more capable version of Bard, its generative AI chatbot and ChatGPT rival, which now lets you double-check its answers, collaborate with others, and, notably, integrate with Google’s own apps and services, including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights and hotels. The latter is available through new Bard Extensions […]

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Google’s Bard chatbot can now tap into your Google apps, double-check answers and more

Google today is releasing a more capable version of Bard, its generative AI chatbot and ChatGPT rival, which now lets you double-check its answers, collaborate with others and, notably, integrate with Google’s own apps and services, including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, YouTube and Google Flights and hotels. The latter is available through new Bard Extensions […]

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TikTok debuts new tools and technology to label AI content

As more creators turn to AI for their artistic expression, there’s also a broader push for transparency around when AI was involved in content creation. To address this concern, TikTok announced today it will launch a new tool that will allow creators to label their AI-generated content and will begin testing other ways to label […]

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Universal Music Declares War on Streaming Noise

The world’s largest record label has struck a deal in France to demonetize “functional music” like AI sludge and noise tracks and give more money to artists.

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White Hat Hackers Discover Microsoft Leak of 38TB of Internal Data Via Azure Storage

The Microsoft leak, which stemmed from AI researchers sharing open-source training data on GitHub, has been mitigated.

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