Tag: ai

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:…
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…