The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’
The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers.
A simpler method for learning to control a robot
A new machine-learning technique can efficiently learn to control a robot, leading to better performance with fewer data.
Open-source platform makes it easier to create 3D scenes from images
Just a few years ago, Berkeley engineers showed us how they could easily turn images into a 3D navigable scene using a technology called Neural Radiance Fields, or NeRF. Now, another team of Berkeley researchers has created a development framework to help speed up NeRF projects and make this technology more accessible to others.
ServiceNow partners with Nvidia and Accenture on ‘AI Lighthouse’ for rapid enterprise AI adoption
The program aims to help customers build and deploy custom generative AI large language models (LLMs) and generative AI applications.Read More
Our Top Song of the Summer Picks
If music is a sport, this is the most competitive season of the year. Here are WIRED’s picks for the best tracks out right now. Who deserves the top spot?
Do androids laugh at electric sheep? Study challenges AI models to recognize humor
Large neural networks, a form of artificial intelligence, can generate thousands of jokes along the lines of “Why did the chicken cross the road?” But do they understand why they’re funny?
UBS projects 61% compound annual growth rate for AI demand between 2022 and 2027
The report is an acknowledgment of the huge financial potential of the emerging sector surrounding generative AI and related technology. Read More
AI can ask another AI for a second opinion on medical scans, research shows
Published recently in Nature Machine Intelligence, research addressed the limited availability of human annotated, or labeled, medical images by using an adversarial, or competitive, learning approach against unlabeled data.
What the viral AI-generated ‘Barbenheimer’ trailer says about generative AI hype | The AI Beat
Here are three things a viral AI-generated ‘Barbenheimer’ trailer says about the state of generative AI right now.Read More
Social Media Has Run Out of Fresh Ideas
From corporate rebrands to AI-powered video reels to text threads, social media companies are throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.