Sahil Dua’s journey into software and computer science began with a robotics competition. In his first year of college in Delhi, where he studied electronics engineering, he started building some robots with friends. He soon realized he was more passionate about software than hardware, which led him to learn outside the classroom. “Everything I learned …
I attended attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. I had more than 20 conversations about AI over the span of four days. Here are my takeaways on task automation, workforce reskilling, human augmentation, and more. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download …
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A cookieless future for Chrome looks set to be a big change for Internet publishers. Photo / Getty Images OPINION In theory, Internet advertising could be amazingly efficient for everyone: customers get relevant, up-to-date ads, with merchants reaching their intended target audiences easily, and in large numbers unconstrained by geographies. However, in reality Internet advertising …
Once an AI model learns the tricks of deception it might be hard to retrain it. Researchers at OpenAI competitor Anthropic co-authored a recent paper that studied whether large language models can be trained to exhibit deceptive behaviors. They concluded that not only can a model learn to exhibit deceptive behavior, but once it does, …
The AX Visio are a pair of AI-powered bird-watching binoculars that were unveiled at CES 2024. The binoculars can identify more than 9,000 types of birds and other wildlife. They come with price tag of around $5,000 and were designed by former Apple designer Marc Newson. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in …
The mornings when I’m on vacation in India usually mean several cups of chai and chatting with my mom and grandmother before I scroll through social media — except for that one day in early July. I woke up to dozens of notifications pouring in from friends and sources back home in the US asking …
Let us be thankful for the AI industry. Its leaders may be nudging humans closer to extinction, but this year, they provided us with a gloriously messy spectacle of progress. When I say “year,” I mean the long year that began late last November, when OpenAI released ChatGPT and, in doing so, launched generative AI …
I’ve downloaded a lot of apps this year. There are two reasons I am fast to download any new social-media app. First, like many people, I am bored of the platforms I’ve been on for over a decade and I’ve even stopped posting on some — period. I wrote an entire story about this phenomenon …
A single page of fiction can cover 1,000 years of in-story time; 1,000 pages of story can take place in an instant. That’s a neat bit of magic, and it profoundly bothers the kind of people who study literature. Experts have spent years — decades, even — trying to gauge how fast most in-story clocks …