(Black PR Wire) LOS ANGELES — Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, announced today the six Fellows and their projects selected for its Amplifier Fellowship. The 2023 Film Independen…
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Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Over the past few months, AI chatbots like ChatGPT have captured the world’s attention due to their ability to converse in a human-like way on just about any subject. But they come with a serious drawback: They can present convincing false information easily, making them unreliable sources of...
(BPRW) Tech Giant Microsoft Joins Forces with Atlanta-based Not-For-Profit to Support Aspiring Youth Creatives
(Black PR Wire) WHAT: The Ann Cephus Family Fund (ACFF) and Microsoft Corporation as we officially kick off a city-wide effort to empower students in the Atlanta metro area who are pursuing careers in the Arts. Through this partnership, Microso…
This Historically Black University Created Its Own Tech Intern Pipeline
A new program at Bowie State connects computing students directly with companies, bypassing an often harsh Silicon Valley vetting process.
For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get
Critics say the intern selection process often favors wealthier students, just like the admission process at some elite colleges.
Operation Cookie Monster: Feds seize “notorious hacker marketplace”
Enlarge / Domain seizure message at genesis.market. An international law enforcement operation shut down a “notorious hacker marketplace” that sold access to infected devices and stolen account credentials, the US Department of Justice and Europol announced today. The operation targeting Genesis Market involved 17 countries, seized the platform’s infrastructure, and resulted in “119 arrests, 208...
Meta introduces AI model that can isolate and mask objects within images
Enlarge / An example of SAM selecting the outline of a corgi in a photo. (credit: Meta) On Wednesday, Meta announced an AI model called the Segment Anything Model (SAM) that can identify individual objects in images and videos, even those not encountered during training, reports Reuters. According to a blog post from Meta, SAM...
President Biden delivers remarks on “risks of artificial intelligence”
Enlarge On Tuesday, President Joe Biden delivered brief remarks on artificial intelligence risks at the opening of a meeting with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at the White House. The remarks come in the context of increasing worry about generative AI and its potential threats to society and controversial calls for...
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure face antitrust probe
Enlarge (credit: Bruno Vincent / Getty Images) The UK’s communications watchdog has called for a probe into Microsoft and Amazon’s dominance of the country’s cloud computing market in the latest challenge to the tech giants from global regulators. Ofcom said on Wednesday it was “particularly concerned” by the practices of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft,...
ChatGPT vs Google Bard: Which is better? We put them to the test.
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of two robots fighting in an arena. (credit: Benj Edwards / Midjourney) In today’s world of generative AI chatbots, we’ve witnessed the sudden rise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, introduced in November, followed by Bing Chat in February and Google’s Bard in March. We decided to put these chatbots through their paces...