• Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

    Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody
    Meta has some big AI ambitions, even as it seems like it’s long been playing catch up to OpenAI, Microsoft, and even Google. To make a bit of a splash, on Wednesday the company showed off its new AI-based Segment Anything Model that’s surprisingly capable of identifying and separating specific objects in images and…Read more...
  • Were the Guardian’s readers April fooled? | Letter

    Were the Guardian’s readers April fooled? | Letter
    April Fools’ Day | Wellbeing woes | High on fry | Cow cover | Helping out on CasualtyI searched Saturday’s Guardian in vain for your customary April fool gag. Maybe this year I’m excessively gullible or perhaps you made April fools of us all by there simply being no April fool. If so, it’s an excellent ruse to get us all to scour every inch of your columns.Sylvia EdwardsSale, Greater Manchester• Robert Jenrick says that “we must not elevate the wellbeing of ill
  • Australian Mayor Threatens to Sue OpenAI for Defamation by Chatbot

    Australian Mayor Threatens to Sue OpenAI for Defamation by Chatbot
    Producing airtight, accurate facts isn’t ChatGPT’s strong suit. The OpenAI-created large language model is known to fabricate information for its own ends—outright lying in service of generating fluid text, quickly or completing tasks. But is ChatGPT legally responsible for its falsehoods? Can the inventions of an…Read more...
  • Dry EEG Sensors Control Army Robots

    Dry EEG Sensors Control Army Robots
    Brain-machine interface (BMI) technology, for all its decades of development, still awaits widespread use. Reasons include hardware and software that’s not yet up to the task in noninvasive approaches that use electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors placed on the scalp, and that surgery is required in approaches relying on brain implants.Now, researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, in collaboration with the Australian Army, have developed portable, prototype dry sen
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  • Privacy Executive Rob Leathern Is Out At Google. Now He Wants to Talk About AI.

    Privacy Executive Rob Leathern Is Out At Google. Now He Wants to Talk About AI.
    When people start complaining that your tech company is ruining the world, you hire a guy like Rob Leathern. He joined Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, just as the Cambridge Analytica scandal convinced the public that Facebook was an existential threat to democracy. During the 2020 election and coronavirus…Read more...