Eugene comes from an electronic engineering background and loves all things tech. When he takes a break from consuming AI news, you'll find him at the snooker table.
LinkedIn ↗The AI-generated video impersonating the late comedic great, George Carlin, horrified fans while simultaneously demonstrating the advancement AI has made in voice cloning. Carlin’s estate is…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
If you’re brainstorming new ideas, then AI models like GPT-4 can often come up with some great ideas to add to your list. The problem is…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
AI agents are performing complex goal-oriented tasks with limited supervision. A team of researchers has proposed three measures that could increase visibility into AI agents to…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
A report from the think tank RAND has concluded that current LLMs do not meaningfully increase the risk of a biological attack by a non-state actor.…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Welcome to our roundup of this week’s AI news. If you’re reading this then the robots haven’t taken over yet. This week AI aced a maths…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
Loneliness is a global epidemic with people increasingly relying on AI companions to fill the absence of human friends. Researchers from Stanford University found that students…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Google Research unveiled Lumiere, a text-to-video diffusion model that creates remarkably realistic videos from text or image prompts. The still images generated by tools like Midjourney…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
New York City has become the first in the world to enact a law regulating the use of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs). Researchers from Cornell…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
The FDA has given its approval for DermaSensor’s AI-powered handheld skin cancer detector to be sold in the US. Skin cancer is the most common cancer…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
A disgruntled customer of UK parcel delivery company DPD got its customer service chatbot to misbehave to the point where the company had to take it…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
