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Tag: ai

Report estimates AI energy demands will quadruple in the next few years, with some large planned centres estimated to use the equivalent power of 5,000,000 households

Report estimates AI energy…

One of the biggest concerns people have about AI is energy consumption, and a recent report suggests that things…
Microsoft’s 100% AI-generated Quake 2 made us nauseous but John Carmack, the game’s OG coder, loves it: ‘What? This is impressive research work!’

Microsoft’s 100% AI-generated Quake…

Over the weekend, Microsoft released a technology demonstration from its AI Copilot research labs, showcasing a generative AI creating…
‘They chewed me up pretty good’: A US plaintiff attempted to use an AI avatar to argue their court case and the judges were far from amused

‘They chewed me up…

AI has many uses—or at least that’s what we keep being told—but one area where it might do some…
Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo ‘inspired’ by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make

Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo…

Before the disaster that was Stadia, Google demoed its game streaming tech via a free version of Assassin’s Creed:…
You won’t have to leave the Amazon app even when buying from other retailers thanks to the company’s new ‘Buy for Me’ agentic AI bot

You won’t have to…

If you’re an Amazon die-hard and want to see all your online shopping in one place, you will soon…
OpenAI finalises deal for $40 billion in investments, raising company value up to $300 billion, but there’s a catch to receive it all

OpenAI finalises deal for…

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has been made an offer it can’t refuse, otherwise known as a highly valued round of…
Anthropic has developed an AI ‘brain scanner’ to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought

Anthropic has developed an…

It’s a peculiar truth that we don’t understand how large language models (LLMs) actually work. We designed them. We…
As if your work meetings weren’t already fun enough, now Otter has a new all-hearing AI agent that remembers everything anyone has said and can join in the discussion

As if your work…

Imagine a new work colleague who remembered everything you or anyone else ever said in a meeting. Wouldn’t that…
‘No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense’: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth uses decoy pages to trap web-crawling bots and feed them slop ‘as a defensive weapon’

‘No real human would…

The web is plagued by bots. That’s nothing new of course, but now we’re in the midst of our…
‘Humans still surpass machines’: Roblox has been using a machine learning voice chat moderation system for a year, but in some cases you just can’t beat real people

‘Humans still surpass machines’:…

The rise of voice chat in online videogames has inevitably led to a growth in bad behavior between players—it…