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Google AI Overviews Says It’s Still 2024

I’ve covered Google’s AI Overviews since its messy rollout last year, when screenshots of absurdly wrong answers started popping up at the top...

A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley

An academic lab in the United Arab Emirates today launched an artificial intelligence world model and agent, two large language models (LLMs), and...

‘Going to apply to McDonald’s’: Doctor with 20-year experience ‘fears’ losing job after AI detects pneumonia in seconds

Dr. Mohammad Fawzi Katranji has joked on Instagram that he may soon lose his job to AI and apply at McDonald’s. The pulmonologist,...

Google DeepMind’s AI Agent Dreams Up Algorithms Beyond Human Expertise

A key question in artificial intelligence is how often models go beyond just regurgitating and remixing what they have learned and produce truly...

Amazon Has Made a Robot With a Sense of Touch

“Amazon stores many different products in bins, so rummaging is necessary to pull out a specific object to fill an order,” says Ken...

The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive

It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new car, the only way the automaker could check...

A Judge Says Meta’s AI Copyright Case Is About ‘the Next Taylor Swift’

Meta’s copyright battle with a group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, will turn on the question of whether the company’s...

Think Twice Before Creating That ChatGPT Action Figure

Any data, prompts, or requests you share helps teach the algorithm—and personalized information helps fine tune it further, says Jake Moore, global cybersecurity...

2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of...

AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head

What is the future of the like button in the age of artificial intelligence? Max Levchin—the PayPal cofounder and Affirm CEO—sees a new...

Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don’t Have to

On the morning of Christmas Eve 2016, residents of a house in Fraser, Michigan, heard a curious pop, pop, popping sound coming from...

AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures

So, there's the training data. Then, there's the fine-tuning and evaluation. The training data might contain all kinds of really problematic stereotypes across...