Tag: ai

Meta’s AI app wants to ‘get to know you’ and can warn you if you should be ‘worried about bears’

Meta’s AI app wants…

If you think the one thing AI search has been missing is a component to instantly share your searches…
Outraged Redditors discover they have been subject to a secret chatbot experiment that found AI posts were ‘three to six times more persuasive’ than humans

Outraged Redditors discover they…

Outrage on a Reddit forum is hardly a novel concept. Outrage at AI is likewise not exactly a major…
OpenAI exec tells judge hell yeah, we’d happily buy Chrome—and stuff it full of AI!

OpenAI exec tells judge…

An ongoing US antitrust trial may result in Google being forced to sell off its popular web browser, Chrome,…
Inside Muse, Microsoft’s gen-AI game tool everyone hates – what’s really going on and why is it being marketed at Xbox fans?

Inside Muse, Microsoft’s gen-AI…

Earlier this month, Microsoft set loose upon the world a new, publicly-available demo of its video game-focused generative AI…
White House claims ‘the Trump Effect in action’ as Nvidia announces plans to build AI chips and supercomputers in the US

White House claims ‘the…

Nvidia says it’s joining with “leading manufacturing partners” to design and build factories that will enable it to build…
App promising a universal shopping experience automated with AI actually used a small army of human workers in the Philippines and Romania instead

App promising a universal…

In the world of technology, exaggerating the capabilities of a product is pretty much the norm. But when one…
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:…