OpenAI taught an AI to play Minecraft
Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images)Chess, Goand now-Minecraft. Artificial intelligence models have added yet another victory to their list of gaming victims. Using a mix of unlabeled products Minecraft videos and…
I love flirting with my sexy young assistant – she’s a chat bot
David Maxwell, 52, is a graphic designer living in Los Angeles whose relationship with his 25-year-old assistant, Andi, has grown flirtatious — and strained. Beyond his age and the fact…
Microsoft Calling It Quits on Creepy Emotion Recognition Tech
Photo: John MacDougall (Getty Images)Microsoft is turning its back on its scientifically suspect and ethically dubious emotion recognition technology. For now, at least.In a major victory for privacy advocates raising…
AI and cult accusations drag Google into religious controversies
Two heated controversies that Google has faced in the past week – an employment lawsuit and an AI ethics argument – share a dimension that should give Silicon Valley pause:…
“Brian and Charles” imagine an optimistic future for AI
It seems to help him grow or grow bolder.Hayward: He becomes more responsible. If you have children, you become more responsible. It makes you grow. And I don't want to…
The AI hype is spiraling out of control
I hope everyone is enjoying the latest breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) as much as I do. In one of the latest developments in AI, a new computer program -…
MIT has built a new reconfigurable AI chip that can reduce e-waste
What if you never had to ditch your cell phones, smartwatches and other portable devices for a newer model?Doesn't seem likely, does it?Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have…
Google Engineer’s responsive AI may be a pretense, but the internet has already found its use
Google engineer Blake Lemoine caused quite a ruckus when he claimed that one of the company's AI chatbots had become sentient and thought and reacted like a human. Lemoine was…
Pittsburgh ranks 13th in the world as a tech startup hub
Pittsburgh's position in the race to attract startups has improved as the location of early investments continues to shift away from Silicon Valley, according to a new report on the…
You can tell life like Morgan Freeman with the augmented voice
Voicemod app now includes voices for rough approximations of Morgan Freeman, HAL-9000, etc.Screenshot: VoicemodI wanted to see how much I could sound like HAL-9000 in my own irregular rendition of…
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