AI/ML News

The breakthrough that makes robot faces feel less creepy

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed…

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Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against…

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Thinking Machines Cofounder’s Office Relationship Preceded His Termination

Leaders at Mira Murati’s startup believe Barret Zoph engaged in an incident of “serious misconduct.” The details are now coming…

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OpenAI introducing ads to ChatGPT

OpenAI announced Friday it will begin testing advertisements on ChatGPT in the coming weeks, as the wildly popular artificial intelligence…

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Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning

Users of the VR fitness service are distraught that Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more…

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AIs behaving badly: An AI trained to deliberately make bad code will become bad at unrelated tasks, too

Artificial intelligence models that are trained to behave badly on a narrow task may generalize this behavior across unrelated tasks,…

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Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI

The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened.

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Generative AI tool helps 3D print personalized items that withstand daily use

Generative artificial intelligence models have left such an indelible impact on digital content creation that it's getting harder to recall…

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Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification…

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The Fight on Capitol Hill to Make It Easier to Fix Your Car

As vehicles grow more software-dependent, repairing them has become harder than ever. A bill in the US House called the…

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