The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI - An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the... -

The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the use of generative artificial intelligence for any purpose last y...

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Pokemon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI To Navigate the World - Augmented reality gaming company Niantic plans to develop an AI system for navigat... -

Pokemon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI To Navigate the World - Slashdot

Augmented reality gaming company Niantic plans to develop an AI system for navigating physical spaces using data from millions of unsuspecting play...

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The Vecdec Cyberdeck is More than a Pretty Case - A common criticism we hear of cyberdecks is that functionality too often takes a b... -

Hackaday

The Vecdec Cyberdeck Is More Than A Pretty Case

A common criticism we hear of cyberdecks is that functionality too often takes a backseat to aesthetics — in other words, they might look awe...

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Coca-Cola Faces Creative Backlash Over AI Christmas Campaign - Coca-Cola's latest AI-generated Christmas advertisement has sparked criticism from... -

Coca-Cola Faces Creative Backlash Over AI Christmas Campaign - Slashdot

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Perplexity's AI Search Engine Can Now Buy Products For You - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Perplexity is rolling out a ne... -

Perplexity

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Perplexity is rolling out a new feature that will let Pro subscribers purchase a product withou...

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AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says - Last week, actor and director Ben Affleck shared his views on AI's role in... -

Ars Technica

AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says

AI won't replace human artistry, says actor, but it will wildly drive down costs.

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HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors' Work to AI Company - HarperCollins has partnered with an AI technology company to allow limited use of ... -

HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors

HarperCollins has partnered with an AI technology company to allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models, offerin...

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Explicit Deepfake Scandal Shuts Down Pennsylvania School - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An AI-generated nude photo ... -

Explicit Deepfake Scandal Shuts Down Pennsylvania School - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: An AI-generated nude photo scandal has shut down a Pennsylvania private school. On Monday, c...

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ChatGPT-4 Beat Doctors at Diagnosing Illness, Study Finds - Dr. Adam Rodman, a Boston-based internal medicine expert, helped design a study te... -

ChatGPT-4 Beat Doctors at Diagnosing Illness, Study Finds - Slashdot

Dr. Adam Rodman, a Boston-based internal medicine expert, helped design a study testing 50 licensed physicians to see whether ChatGPT improved thei...

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Google AI Gemini Threatens College Student: 'Human... Please Die' - A Michigan college student writing about the elderly received this suggestion from... -

Google AI Gemini Threatens College Student:

A Michigan college student writing about the elderly received this suggestion from Google

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AI Lab PleIAs Releases Fully Open Dataset, as AMD, Ai2 Release Open AI Models - French private AI lab PleIAs "is committed to training LLMs in the open," they wri... -

AI Lab PleIAs Releases Fully Open Dataset, as AMD, Ai2 Release Open AI Models - Slashdot

French private AI lab PleIAs "is committed to training LLMs in the open," they write in a blog post at Mozilla.org. "This means not on...

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Ask Slashdot: Have AI Coding Tools Killed the Joy of Programming? - Longtime Slashdot reader DaPhil writes: I taught myself to code at 12 years old in... -

Ask Slashdot: Have AI Coding Tools Killed the Joy of Programming? - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader DaPhil writes: I taught myself to code at 12 years old in the 90s and I

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Virgin Media O2 Deploys AI Decoy To Waste Scammers' Time - British telecom Virgin Media O2 has deployed an AI tool to combat phone scammers b... -

Virgin Media O2 Deploys AI Decoy To Waste Scammers

British telecom Virgin Media O2 has deployed an AI tool to combat phone scammers by wasting their time with fake conversations, the company said. T...

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ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher - In 2017, eight machine-learning researchers at Google released a groundbre... -

Ars Technica

ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher

A co-author of Attention Is All You Need reflects on ChatGPT's surprise and Google's conservatism.

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OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool To Automate Tasks For Users - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: OpenAI is preparing to launch ... -

OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool To Automate Tasks For Users - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: OpenAI is preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence agent codenamed "Operator" ...

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AI Companies Hit Development Hurdles in Race for Advanced Models - OpenAI's latest large language model, known internally as Orion, has fallen short ... -

AI Companies Hit Development Hurdles in Race for Advanced Models - Slashdot

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Remember the Tri-Format Floppy Disk? - These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on s... -

Hackaday

Remember The Tri-Format Floppy Disk?

These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s an...

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Power Shortage To Hit 40% of AI Data Centres by 2027, Gartner Warns - 40% of AI data centers will face operational constraints due to power shortages by... -

Power Shortage To Hit 40% of AI Data Centres by 2027, Gartner Warns - Slashdot

40% of AI data centers will face operational constraints due to power shortages by 2027 as AI drives unprecedented energy consumption, research fir...

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Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI - In the short-term, the most dangerous thing about AI language models may b... -

Ars Technica

Join us today for Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI

At 4PM ET, join Benj Edwards and Simon Willison's live YouTube chat about the "Great Bing Chat Fiasco of 2023."

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Bitcoin and Crypto, Promoted by Trump, Brace for Election Volatility - Many crypto investors hope that a victory for Donald Trump could propel the price of Bitc... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/technology/crypto-bitcoin-price-trump-election.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #electionshouseofrepresentatives #presidentialelectionof2024 #computersandtheinternet #bitcoin(currency) #virtualcurrency #harriskamalad #trumpdonaldj