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US stock markets close at record highs as enthusiasm for AI drives gains

01-03-2024 22:56 via theguardian.com

Both the S&P 500 and the tech-dominated Nasdaq set new records, with Nvidia closing above $2tn for the first timeUS stock markets closed at record highs on Friday powered by investors’ continued enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI).Both the S&P 500 and the tech-dominated Nasdaq set records, with the Nasdaq passing its last peak in 2021, driven higher by gains for Facebook owner Meta and Nvidia, the leading AI chipmaker. Continue reading...

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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion

01-03-2024 22:02

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.HRI 2024: 11–15 March 2024, BOULDER, COLORADO, USAEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCEICRA 2024: 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPANRoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDSEnjoy today’s videos! F

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AI Chatbots Are Better at Math When They Pretend to Be Star Trek Characters

01-03-2024 18:20 via gizmodo.com

For chatbots, math is the final frontier. AI language models generate responses using statistics, spitting out an answer that’s mostly likely to be satisfying. That works great when the goal is a passable sentence, but it means chatbots struggle with questions like math where there’s exactly one right answer. Read more...

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If Meta’s intransigence isn’t enough, AI poses an even greater threat to journalism | Margaret Simons

01-03-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com

While Facebook has refused to renew its Australian media deals, robots scraping news sites for content could upend the industry entirelyIt’s hardly a surprise that Meta, owner of Facebook, is refusing to renew its deals with Australia’s media companies. It was always grudging in its negotiations and never really accepted the principle that it should pay for the benefit of using the work of journalists.Facebook and Google were forced to the bargaining table by the news media bargainin

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Elon Musk sues OpenAI accusing it of putting profit before humanity

01-03-2024 13:12 via theguardian.com

Lawsuit says chief executive Sam Altman’s deal with Microsoft has broken organisation’s missionElon Musk has filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, of breaching its foundational mission by putting the pursuit of profit ahead of the benefit of humanity.The world’s richest man, a founding board member of the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, claimed that Altman had “set aflame” the OpenAI’s founding agreement by signin

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Black Box: the collision | Podcast

01-03-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com

The beginning of a new series that explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real name) has met Noah and he has changed her life for the better. So why does she have concerns about him? Continue reading...

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Black Box: the collision

01-03-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com

The beginning of a new series that explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real name) has met Noah and he has changed her life for the better. So why does she have concerns about him? Continue reading...

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Tech bros need to realise deepfake porn ruins lives – and the law has to catch up

01-03-2024 10:18 via theguardian.com

Taylor Swift is just one of countless victims of deepfake videos. Firms feeding off this abuse should pay for the harm they causeImagine finding that someone has taken a picture of you from the internet and superimposed it on a sexually explicit image available online. Or that a video appears showing you having sex with someone you have never met.Imagine worrying that your children, partner, parents or colleagues might see this and believe it is really you. And that your frantic attempts to take

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