• Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

    Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
    Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black peopleMeta is deleting Facebook and Instagram profiles of AI characters the company created over a year ago after users rediscovered some of the profiles and engaged them in conversations, screenshots of which went viral.The company had first introduced these AI-powered profiles in September 2023 but killed off most of them by summer 2024. However, a few characters remained an
  • Anthropic Agrees to Stop Claude Chatbot’s Ability to Spit Out Lyrics From Copyrighted Songs

    Anthropic Agrees to Stop Claude Chatbot’s Ability to Spit Out Lyrics From Copyrighted Songs
    The AI company still argues that training Claude on copyrighted material constitutes fair use.
  • Video Friday: Sleepy Robot Baby

    Video Friday: Sleepy Robot Baby
    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.RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANYGerman Robotics Conference: 13–15 March 2025, NUREMBERG, GERMANYICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, NCICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA, GAIEEE RCAR 2025: 1–6 June 2
  • ‘Godfather’ of artificial intelligence has a surprising blindspot | Letters

    ‘Godfather’ of artificial intelligence has a surprising blindspot | Letters
    Rachel Withers says people need to get real about their non-mastery of all they survey, and George Burt discusses slavery, political oppression and AI Prof Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather  of artificial intelligence”, states that he struggles to find examples of “more intelligent thing[s] being controlled by … less intelligent thing[s]”; the mother-baby relationship is the only example he can cite (‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology
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