A Chevrolet dealership in Watsonville, California has had to take its sales chatbot down after it was tricked into offering buyers steep discounts. Some entertaining interactions…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
When Google announced the release of its Gemini models there was a lot of excitement as the company said these were on par with offerings from…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Welcome to this week’s AI news roundup. We’ve heard rumors this is Elon Musk’s favorite AI news source. This week AI pranked presidents while fiddling with…
By Eugene van der Watt · 6 min read
A study conducted by the Stanford Internet Observatory identified more than 3,200 images of suspected child sexual abuse in the LAION database, a large-scale index of…
By Sam Jeans · 5 min read
Researchers from ETH Zurich developed a robotic system that can solve a real-world labyrinth game using reinforcement learning. As detailed in their study “Sample-Efficient Learning to…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
In a milestone decision by the UK Supreme Court, AI can’t be named as an inventor in a patent application. This case stemmed from the efforts…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Material scientists are constantly trying to find new materials with specific properties but the experimental data they have to wade through is overwhelming. Scientists at the…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
An AI company called VERSES made a bold statement with a billboard it posted outside OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco. The billboard read, “Got AGI? Would…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine used AI to design new protein molecules in a way that opens up exciting possibilities for the…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
An AI system developed using comprehensive personal data from Denmark has shown remarkable accuracy in predicting an individual’s risk of death. This AI, documented in a…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read
