AI/ML News

New method improves efficiency of ‘vision transformer’ AI systems

Vision transformers (ViTs) are powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that can identify or categorize objects in images -- however, there…

3 years ago

OpenAI executive appears to have Twitter account hacked to promote cryptocurrency scam

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati appeared to have her Twitter account hacked on Thursday evening to promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.Read…

3 years ago

Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own

On the same day, Russia’s FSB intelligence service launched wild claims of NSA and Apple hacking thousands of Russians.

3 years ago

Scientists design artificial synapses for neuromorphic computing

The human brain has been called the most complicated object in the universe. Trying to replicate that still-unmatched capability for…

3 years ago

FTC fines Amazon $25M for violating children’s privacy with Alexa

FTC Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya also took the opportunity to tweet out a direct cautionary note to the fast-growing AI…

3 years ago

Amazon Workers Walk Out Over Layoffs and Broken Climate Promises

Malaise swept through the company after massive job cuts, mandatory return to the office, and surging emissions despite the company's…

3 years ago

Assessing political bias in language models

The language models behind ChatGPT and other generative AI are trained on written words that have been culled from libraries,…

3 years ago

Vectara aims to ground generative AI conversational search without hallucinations

AI powered conversational search platform Vectara has new capabilities aiming to improve generative AI for business data.Read More

3 years ago

Runaway AI Is an Extinction Risk, Experts Warn

A new statement from industry leaders cautions that artificial intelligence poses a threat to humanity on par with nuclear war…

3 years ago

Robot centipedes go for a walk

Researchers show how their multilegged walking robot can be steered by inducing a dynamic instability. By making the couplings between…

3 years ago