In 2015, Elon Musk and Sam Altman cofounded OpenAI based on a seemingly ethical ethos: to develop AI technology that benefits humanity, rather than systems controlled by big-money corporations. Fast-forward a decade that included a spectacular falling out between Musk and Altman, things look very different. Amid legal battles with …
Read More »This restaurant used ChatGPT to create a pizza for its menu — and it became a hit
In case you missed it, in Dubai, the restaurant and delivery chain Dodo Pizza added a new ChatGPT-created pizza to its menu — and it’s flying off the shelves like hot cakes, according to the BBC. Spartak Arutyunyan, the head of menu development for the pizza franchise, leaned on ChatGPT …
Read More »YouTube to add tools to detect AI-generated faces and voices
YouTube is building tools to detect AI-generated likenesses of artists like actors and musicians, the company’s vice president of creator products Amjad Hanif wrote in a blog post this week. Hanif also repeatedly expressed that YouTube is “committed” to the responsible development of AI tools. The first of the new …
Read More »32 of the best MIT courses you can take online for free
TL;DR: Find a wide range of free online courses from MIT on edX. You can find an enormous bank of free online courses from top educational institutions on edX. And we really do mean the best schools in the world, including the likes of MIT. edX hosts free online courses …
Read More »Microsoft Bing amps up its ability to stop explicit deepfake images from appearing in Search results
Microsoft Bing now has more power to scrub AI-generated or deepfake images, a form of nonconsensual intimate image (NCII) abuse, from appearing on the search engine, as the company announces a new nonprofit partnership. A collaboration with victim advocacy tool StopNCII, Microsoft is supplementing its user-reporting with a more “victim-centered” …
Read More »16 of the best ChatGPT courses you can take online for free
TL;DR: A wide range of free ChatGPT courses can be found on Udemy. ChatGPT is always in the news, but do you really understand this exciting technology? And more importantly, do you know how to make this technology work for you? Fortunately for those not in the know, Udemy offers …
Read More »Could AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election?
A few months ago, everyone was worried about how AI would impact the 2024 election. It seems like some of the angst has dissipated, but political deepfakes—including pornographic images and video—are still everywhere. Today on the show, WIRED reporters Vittoria Elliott and Will Knight talk about what has changed with …
Read More »New AI Model Can Simulate ‘Super Mario Bros.’ After Watching Gameplay Footage
Last month, Google's GameNGen AI model showed that generalized image diffusion techniques can be used to generate a passable, playable version of Doom. Now, researchers are using some similar techniques with a model called MarioVGG to see whether AI can generate plausible video of Super Mario Bros. in response to …
Read More »54 of the best Harvard University courses you can take online for free
TL;DR: A wide range of free online courses from Harvard University are available to take on edX. edX hosts a wide range of free online courses from some of the top educational institutions in the world, including Harvard University. That means you can become a student of this famous school …
Read More »OpenAI clarifies: No, "GPT Next" isn't a new model.
No, “GPT Next” is not OpenAI’s next big thing. Earlier this week, Tadao Nagasaki, the lead executive for OpenAI’s Japanese operations, shared a presentation at Japan’s KDDI Summit that seemed to imply a new model call “GPT Next” was imminent. But an OpenAI spokesperson has confirmed to Mashable that the …
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