Tag: ai

Intel’s fancy new AI tool measures image quality in games in real time, so upscaling artifacts and visual nasties have nowhere to hide

Intel’s fancy new AI…

Image quality perception, I’ve often found, varies massively from person to person. Some can’t tell the difference between a…
EU-commissioned study on generative AI and copyright suggests overturning the current opt-out approach that ‘effectively treats silence as consent’

EU-commissioned study on generative…

The world of AI is moving incredibly fast, not only for tech companies and Wall Street investors but also,…
Fresh from telling laid-off employees to console themselves with AI, Microsoft doubles down by advertising Xbox jobs with pathetic AI image: ‘So tone deaf I hope it is satire’

Fresh from telling laid-off…

The rollicking clown car that is Microsoft corporate leadership has outdone itself once again. Earlier this month Phil Spencer…
Xbox graphics department lead puts out cringe-worthy hiring post..

Xbox graphics department lead…

Xbox’s principle development lead for its graphics department has put out a LinkedIn post announcing some new job opportunities.…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘we don’t have to worry’ about the Chinese military using US chips to improve their capabilities because ‘they simply can’t rely on it’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sat down with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday to discuss a variety of issues, including…
McDonalds serves up super size AI botch with a ‘McHire’ platform that allowed admin access to 64 million candidate chats with the username and password ‘123456’

McDonalds serves up super…

Like many large corporations McDonalds now uses an AI hiring platform, McHire.com, to screen candidates for jobs. The process…
Elon Musk claims Grok was ‘manipulated’ into praising Hitler, then makes wild claims about it discovering ‘new technologies’ and ‘new physics’ within the next year: ‘Just let that sink in’

Elon Musk claims Grok…

Elon Musk has addressed the latest controversy around Grok, xAI’s public-facing chatbot, after the technology had a very normal…
After conquering ChatGPT, Atari 2600 Video Chess destroys Microsoft Copilot: ‘The vintage silicon mastermind bested me fair and square’

After conquering ChatGPT, Atari…

Last month we reported on the somewhat-surprising news that an emulated Atari 2600 running the 1979 software Video Chess…
‘The transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is unlawful’: Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI app from their stores

‘The transfer of user…

ChatGPT rival DeepSeek may be in deep trouble in the European Union after the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection…
Psych-rock band The Velvet Sundown racks up well over 400,000 Spotify listens within a month, but very quickly turns out to be AI-generated

Psych-rock band The Velvet…

A psych-rock musical project has racked up 400,000 listens since it started dropping music on Spotify a little under…