• New Security System Uses AI to Shoot Criminals With Paintballs

    New Security System Uses AI to Shoot Criminals With Paintballs
    A new home security system that uses AI-driven smart tracking to shoot potential intruders with paintballs might sound like something out of a Home Alone reboot set in the future. But it could be a reality soon if folks on Kickstarter get their way. The big question that’s still unanswered is whether it’s legal.
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  • Perplexity Is Reportedly Letting Its AI Break a Basic Rule of the Internet

    Perplexity Is Reportedly Letting Its AI Break a Basic Rule of the Internet
    Perplexity wants to change how we use the internet, but the AI search startup backed by Jeff Bezos might be breaking its rules to do so. The company appears to be ignoring a widely accepted web standard, the Robots Exclusion Protocol, to scrape parts of the web that operators don’t want to be accessed by bots,…Read more...
  • Anthropic Says New Claude 3.5 AI Model Outperforms GPT-4 Omni

    Anthropic Says New Claude 3.5 AI Model Outperforms GPT-4 Omni
    Anthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Thursday, which the AI startup says outperforms its previous AI models and OpenAI’s recently launched GPT-4 Omni on several metrics. The company also released Artifacts, a new dynamic workspace within Claude where users can edit and build upon Claude’s AI projects, such as a…Read more...
  • London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash

    London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash
    Plans to show The Last Screenwriter, whose script is credited to ‘ChatGPT 4.0’, prompted complaints although the film-makers insist the feature is ‘a contribution to the cause’A cinema in London has cancelled the world premiere of a film with a script generated by AI after a backlash.The Prince Charles cinema, located in London’s West End and which traditionally screens cult and art films, was due to host a showing of a new production called The Last Screenwriter on
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  • The Atomic Human by Neil Lawrence review – return of the Terminator

    The Atomic Human by Neil Lawrence review – return of the Terminator
    Tales of great men dominate this otherwise sensible study of intelligence versus AIThere is, it seems, an unwritten law in the world of artificial intelligence, which I will attempt to distil here: “Any discussion of AI must include an early and robust reference to the Terminator”. Though the 1984 James Cameron film and its 1991 sequel are quite good, here are two equally made-up but probably mostly true facts: no one under the age of 30 has seen either film and, in any case, ne