To the average person, it must seem as if the field of artificial intelligence is making immense progress. According to the press releases, and some of the more gushing media accounts, OpenAI’s DALL-E...
Python has been steadily rising to become a top programming language. There are many reasons for this, including its extremely high efficiency when compared to other mainstream languages. It also feat...
An elevator that always seems to be there when you need it. A dentist who rarely, if ever, misses scarcely noticeable cavities. A travel website that books an entire ideal vacation with minimal effort...
A new program developed by Rochester researchers uses machine learning to allow users to improvise duets with an artificial intelligence partner. To play a duet with German composer Johann Sebastian B...
La DGSI rappelle, à l’occasion du Forum International de la Cybersécurité (FIC), l’importance de la « culture d’hygiène et de sécurité informatique ». Des recommandations de bon ton, mais ...
You’ve probably heard for years that the workforce would be supplanted by robots. AI has changed several roles, such as using self-checkouts, ATMs, and customer support chatbots. The goal is not...
The FinTech industry is one of the most dynamic in the entire UK economy. Thanks to its success in delivering the smart, intuitive tools and personalised experiences that consumers want, FinTechs have...
In the video record of the Ukraine war, a clumsy attempt to “deepfake” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky coexists alongside critical on-the-ground video evidence of abuses, pervasive misinformati...
The last 10 years have brought tremendous growth in artificial intelligence. Consumer internet companies have gathered vast amounts of data, which has been used to train powerful machine learning prog...
Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we examine the transformative potential of a new, emerging type of machine intelligence—foundation models. Could they become as important, as fundamen...
A Columbia University team has created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that effectively confuses eavesdropping tools that also use AI. The new system used machine learning in a lab setting, but...
The Briefing For the 12th year in a row, Hong Kong is the world’s least affordable housing market, according to Demographia’s ranking of 92 cities in select countries Sydney, Australia moves up one sp...
AI researcher and YouTuber Yannic Kilcher trained an AI using 3.3 million threads from 4chan’s infamously toxic Politically Incorrect /pol/ board. He then unleashed the bot back onto 4chan with predic...
IN BRIEF AI text-to-image generation models are all the rage right now. You give them a simple description of a scene, such as « a vulture typing on a laptop, » and they come up with an illustration t...
Cryptocurrencies are a “threat to the safety of our payment schemes,” Anne Boden, CEO of U.K. digital bank Starling, warned Tuesday. Regulators are concerned about the financial system becoming more e...