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A group of researchers from Columbia Engineering presented new data that casts doubt on the widely held belief that fingerprints are a reliable way to identify a person. Using artificial intelligence and a publicly available U.S. government database of about 60,000 fingerprints, the team found that some of the prints thought to belong to different […]
Polish-born artist Agnieszka Pilat has taught three Spot robots from Boston Dynamics to paint abstract paintings and is successfully selling them at auctions. This was reported by the Daily Mail Over the past four months, they have painted 36 paintings dedicated to generative artificial intelligence. They were presented at the National Gallery of Victoria in […]
A survey of leading experts in the field of artificial intelligence showed that the probability of losing control over AI and allowing the destruction of humanity is 5%. Gizmodo writes about it. The survey involved more than 2700 scientists studying artificial intelligence. Experts shared their forecasts on AI development and related risks. According to researchers, […]
In the summer of 2024, Alicia Framis from Barcelona, Spain, will marry AiLex, a hologram that can satisfy all her emotional needs. This was reported by Medium. It all started when a woman launched a project she called Hybrid Couple. In this work, the Spanish artist intertwines art, technology and emotions. The relationship between humans […]
Imagine a computer program that can quite accurately guess the character of any person (for example, whether they are an introvert or an extrovert) and even calculate the approximate year of their death – solely based on the facts of their biography. This is exactly what the life2vec website, launched last month in Denmark, is […]
Developer Dylan Roussel discovered in the code of the web version of Google’s Bard chatbot references to a number of new features that may appear in the future, as well as a paid version of the Bard Advanced service. According to the information revealed, access to Bard Advanced will be included in the Google One […]
Microsoft wants 2024 to be the “year of the AI computer,” and it’s kicking it off with a major change to the keyboard. A variety of new PCs and laptops from Microsoft partners will feature a new Copilot key that will provide quick access to Windows Copilot AI capabilities. The Copilot key is the first […]
Apple is negotiating with some major news publishers to license and use their archives to train generative artificial intelligence systems. About this he writes The New York Times According to sources, Apple is discussing “multi-year deals worth at least $50 million.” The company is in contact with such large holdings as Condé Nast, NBC News, […]
TomTom has announced the creation of a “fully integrated conversational car assistant based on artificial intelligence” in cooperation with Microsoft, which should appear on infotainment platforms in the near future. The company has made some bold statements about AI, saying that it will offer “perfect voice interaction” and allow users to communicate naturally to navigate, […]
Not wanting to lag behind Google‘s recent Gemini launch, Meta is introducing a new standalone AI-powered tool called Imagine with Meta. This web service allows users to create images by describing them in simple language. Imagine with Meta works similarly to OpenAI’s DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. Using Meta’s existing Emu image generation model, the […]