I spent the day Wednesday at Massey University campus, an amazing day speaking with faculty and students, many stimulating discussions. They invited me to present on AI and ChatGPT and the opportunities these technologies will create in the near and longer term. After the Q&A, while we were enjoying a pizza lunch, a group of […]
Monthly Archives: March 2023
Free data-center heat is allegedly saving a struggling public pool $24K a year
reader comments 43 with Share this story A public pool in the UK is expected to save £20,000 (about $24,000) and cut carbon emissions by 25.8 tons annually by warming a 25 m and children’s pool with waste heat from a data center from startup Deep Green. Data center owners have long tried to limit […]
Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is like an omniscient version of Clippy
Enlarge / Microsoft 365 Copilot will attempt to automate content generation and analysis in all of the former Microsoft Office apps. reader comments 42 with Share this story Today Microsoft took the wraps off of Microsoft 365 Copilot, its rumored effort to build automated AI-powered content-generation features into all of the Microsoft 365 apps. The […]
Baidu shares fall after Ernie AI chatbot demo disappoints
Enlarge / “Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of Baidu,” chief Robin Li introduces the functions of the company’s AI chatbot Ernie in Beijing on Thursday. Li said there was high market demand as Chinese companies raced to develop an equivalent to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT. Ng Han […]
The Download: flying cars, and not-so-OpenAI
Some companies think it’s time the aviation industry got a makeover, and many are betting it’ll come in the form of eVTOLs: electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles. There are hundreds of companies working to bring the small aircrafts that take off and land like a helicopter and fly like a plane to the skies. […]
These aircraft could change how we fly
So far, no eVTOLs have launched commercially, though several companies have announced plans to enter commercial service in 2025. Right now, companies are testing prototypes and showing off what they can do—a company called Autoflight broke the world record for the longest eVTOL flight just last month. The aircraft covered just over 155 miles (250 […]
Futurists predict a point where humans and machines become one. But will we see it coming?
Most people are familiar with the deluge of artificial intelligence (AI) apps that seem designed to make us more efficient and creative. We’ve got apps that take text prompts and generate art, and the controversial ChatGPT, which raises serious questions about originality, misinformation and plagiarism. Despite these concerns, AI is becoming ever more pervasive and […]
OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world
Ars Technica reader comments 43 with Share this story As part of pre-release safety testing for its new GPT-4 AI model, launched Tuesday, OpenAI allowed an AI testing group to assess the potential risks of the model’s emergent capabilities—including “power-seeking behavior,” self-replication, and self-improvement. While the testing group found that GPT-4 was “ineffective at the […]
Security firm Rubrik is latest to be felled by GoAnywhere vulnerability
Getty Images reader comments 2 with Share this story Rubrik, the Silicon Valley data security company, said that it experienced a network intrusion made possible by a zero-day vulnerability in a product it used called GoAnywhere. In an advisory posted on Tuesday, Rubrik CISO Michael Mestrovich said an investigation into the breach found that the […]
Hilariously sad: My great mobile provider, Mint, will sell to T-Mobile for $1.35B
Enlarge / Hug it out, boys. reader comments 77 with Share this story As every Roman historian and Shakespeare fan knows, a soothsayer once told Caesar to beware the Ides of March, for on that day, dark and terrible things would happen. I like to think the message was intended for me, too, because today, […]