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.
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 computing, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have made a new interface-type memristive device, which their results suggest can be used to build artificial synapses for next-generation neuromorphic computing.
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 industry…Read More
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 pledge to get greener.
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, scraped from websites and social media, and pulled from news reports and speech transcripts from across the world. There are 250 billion such words behind GPT-3.5, the model fueling ChatGPT, for instance, and GPT-4 is …
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
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 or a pandemic.
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 segments more flexible, the robot changes from walking straight to moving in a curved path. This work can lead to more energy-efficient and reliable robotic navigation of terrain.
Research team designs brain-inspired device for optoelectronic computing
Perfect recall, computational wizardry and rapier wit: That’s the brain we all want, but how does one design such a brain? The real thing is comprised of ~80 billion neurons that coordinate with one another through tens of thousands of connections in the form of synapses. The human brain has no centralized processor, the way …
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MediaTek taps Nvidia GPU and AI for connected car chipsets
Today at Computex, MediaTek and Nvidia announced a partnership to develop a unique platform for AI-powered connected cars.Read More