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Tag: AI

OpenAI opens doors to ChatGPT, another AI to fill the world with kinda-true stuff

2022-12-052022-12-05 Danie
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The model is based on the company’s latest text-generation GPT-3.5 system released earlier this year. ChatGPT is more conversational than previous versions. It can ask users follow-up questions and refrain from responding to inappropriate inputs […]

Blog#openai, AI, artificialintelligence, chatgpt, technology

MyBroadband journalist reviews this article that was written by artificial intelligence

2022-12-042022-12-04 Danie
Man with hand hovering over a keyboard, with a robot watching from the opposite side

Certainly, no reader would have otherwise realised this article was written by AI. But it is also clear that, whilst the form and structure is excellent, the content is of a generic nature. Where it […]

BlogAI, artificialintelligence, journalism, technology

AI eye-scanner can tell whether you’ll croak it from a heart attack – maybe soon blood tests may not be required and testing much quicker

2022-10-062022-10-06 Danie
retina scans

AI algorithms can predict whether a patient is at risk of suffering a stroke, heart attack, or dying from heart disease just by studying images of their retinas, according to research out of England. The […]

Blog#pathology, #retina, AI, health, technology

Scientists make AI laser turret for killing cockroaches – What could possibly go wrong?

2022-10-042022-10-04 Danie
laser turret cockroach

Scientists have developed a laser with artificial intelligence (AI) designed to neutralise cockroaches as a new form of pest control. The team’s experiments showed that its laser system “enables the immediate and selective neutralisation of […]

Blog#cockroaches, #pestcontrol, AI, technology

Whisper is an open source automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web

2022-09-232022-09-23 Danie
whisper

Should you wish to try high-quality voice recognition without buying something, good luck. Sure, you can borrow the speech recognition on your phone or coerce some virtual assistants on a Raspberry Pi to handle the […]

Blog#speechrecognition, AI, opensource, technology

Artists, have AI image generators assimilated your art? New tool lets you check

2022-09-172022-09-17 Danie
haveibeentrained search results

In response to controversy over image synthesis models learning from artists’ images scraped from the Internet without consent—and potentially replicating their artistic styles—a group of artists has released a new website that allows anyone to […]

BlogAI, art, artists, licensing, technology

Walmart now lets you virtually model over 270,000 items of apparel clothing on your own body

2022-09-152022-09-15 Danie
Walmart AI

The new Be Your Own Model experience requires customers to upload a full-body photo of themselves to create a realistic simulation of what an item of clothing would look like on their own bodies. The […]

Blog#clothing, #virtualclothing, AI, technology, walmart

Stable Diffusion: Anyone can use this AI art generator — that’s the risk

2022-09-152022-09-15 Danie
StableDiffusion

Type and ye shall receive. That’s the basic premise of AI text-to-image programs. Users type out descriptions of whatever they like — a cyborg Joe Biden wielding a samurai sword; a medieval tapestry of frogs […]

Blog#aiart, #stablediffusion, AI, technology

A.I. use by students is not actually plagiarism, but is it ethical or acceptable?

2022-09-062022-09-06 Danie
AI Students

The modern world! Such complications did not exist a few decades back. Some study aids are generally considered acceptable. When writing papers, it is perfectly fine to use grammar- and syntax-checking products standard on Microsoft […]

Blog#assignments, #ethics, academia, AI, technology

Google’s Project Nimbus, with Amazon and the Israeli Government, is the future of evil

2022-09-042022-09-04 Danie
ProjectNimbus

Google does a lot of stupid things. All giant corporations are the same in that regard. But it takes special effort to do something truly terrible. That’s where Google’s Project Nimbus comes in on the […]

Blog#projectnimbus, AI, amazon, google, technology

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