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China’s Answer to ChatGPT Gets an Artificial Debut and Disappoints
The promised “live” demonstration of the bot had, in fact, been recorded. Shares of Baidu, the company behind the technology, tumbled in Hong Kong.
U.K. Bans TikTok on Government Devices
The move reflects fears in Britain and elsewhere in the West that the popular app’s Chinese ownership could share user information with Beijing.
AI imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands
Enlarge / An example of lighting and skin effects in the AI image generator Midjourney v5. (credit: Julie W. Design) On Wednesday, Midjourney announced version 5 of its commercial AI image synthesis service, which can produce photorealistic images at a quality level that some AI art fans are calling creepy and “too perfect.” Midjourney v5...
Federal agency hacked by 2 groups thanks to flaw that went unpatched for 4 years
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Multiple threat actors—one working on behalf of a nation-state—gained access to the network of a US federal agency by exploiting a four-year-old vulnerability that remained unpatched, the US government warned. Exploit activities by one group likely began in August 2021 and last August by the other, according to an advisory jointly...
Free data-center heat is allegedly saving a struggling public pool $24K a year
Enlarge (credit: Getty) 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 the impact of heat...
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. (credit: Microsoft) 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 capabilities Microsoft demonstrated make Copilot...
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. (credit: Ng...
(BPRW) Girls Who Code Celebrates 10th Anniversary With “CodeFair,” A Three-Day Public Event
(Black PR Wire) New York, NY – Girls Who Code, a nonprofit working to close the gender gap in tech, announced CodeFair, a three-day event from Friday, March 24th – Sunday, March 26th at The Altman Building in New York City. The …
GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary
Today, the new language model from OpenAI may not seem all that dangerous. But the worst risks are the ones we cannot anticipate.