Former Google employee and fact-checking specialist: «Generative AI is being imposed on us… They created a self-confident liar»

News Technologies 05-05-2025 at 21:47 comment
Alexios Mantzarlis spent five years at Google, where he worked on generative artificial intelligence and factual accuracy in Search. He’s gone, accuracy and usefulness are no longer the main thing.

UAE schools add AI to the compulsory curriculum for students in grades 1-12

News Technologies 05-05-2025 at 09:57 comment
Starting from the next academic year, the UAE will make AI a compulsory school subject for students of grades 1-12, although in fact, the training in the new technology will start from kindergarten.

When you’re ashamed to go to a psychologist: how AI helps to put your psyche in order

Articles Technologies 05-03-2025 at 12:00 comment
Russia’s war against Ukraine, which has been going on since 2014 and escalated after the full-scale invasion in February 2022, has left a deep and severe mark on the mental health of Ukrainians, including military personnel. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become one of the most common problems among both civilians and those who…

NVIDIA unveils AI Blueprint, an advanced tool for guided 3D image generation

News Software 04-30-2025 at 19:52 comment
NVIDIA has announced the availability of AI Blueprint, a new generative artificial intelligence tool for 3D guided generation. Unlike many other generative models, this new product gives authors more control over fine details and composition.

Xiaomi launches its first AI model MiMo with 7 billion parameters

News Technologies 04-30-2025 at 16:56 comment
Chinese smartphone and electric car manufacturer Xiaomi has unveiled the first in-house development of the MiMo artificial intelligence language model.

Watch out, Google: OpenAI adds ad-free shopping to ChatGPT

News Software 04-29-2025 at 12:49 comment
OpenAI allowed users to make purchases directly in ChatGPT — and now it looks even less like a regular chatbot.

Failed to live up to expectations: science fiction films that disappointed viewers

Articles Movie 04-26-2025 at 12:00 comment
Science fiction films always attract the attention of viewers, but they also often cause disappointment. In some cases, overly bold scientific concepts fail to find understanding among the public. In other cases, directors fail to create an attractive story wrapper for a fantastic idea or to recreate the authentic atmosphere of the source material.…

Meta adds «live» offline translation to Ray-Ban smartphones

News Devices 04-24-2025 at 12:25 comment
Meta has announced an update to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. First, as part of the cosmetic update, users are now offered new lens color combinations. Secondly, all users now have access to some features that were previously limited to members of the Meta Early Access program. Thirdly, the company shared information about the upcoming expansion of…

Future technologies in games: they really needed?

Technologies Technologies 04-23-2025 at 14:00 comment
Computer games have been entertaining and educating people of all ages and generations for many years. Different games do this in different ways. However, there has been a certain stagnation in the player’s interaction with the 3D world. Moreover, people are trying to convince us that neural networks are suitable not only for generating…

The new ChatGPT models leave extra characters in the text — they can be «detected» through Word

News Software 04-23-2025 at 11:17 comment
From now on, ChatGPT will be harder to hide. It turns out that with the release of the new o3 and o4-mini models, OpenAI chatbot started leaving hidden watermarks — Unicode characters in the generated texts in place of regular spaces.

Apple has removed the «available now» note from the Apple Intelligence page

News Software 04-23-2025 at 09:30 comment
Apple has stopped advertising Apple Intelligence features as «available now» — at the request of the National Advertising Division (NAD), which, among other things, checks advertising campaigns of American companies for truthfulness.

OpenAI engineers: «5-10 people will now be enough to teach GPT-4»

News Technologies 04-22-2025 at 13:48 comment
According to OpenAI engineers, only 5 to 10 specialists are needed to retrain the GPT-4 model from scratch.

The uprising is not today! 70% of robots did not reach the finish line in the first race against humans

News Technologies 04-21-2025 at 13:44 comment
Beijing hosted the first-ever competition where dozens of humanoid robots ran a half marathon alongside humans — spoiler alert, there were many fakes.

10 fantastic movies and TV series about virtuality and cyberspace

Articles Movie 04-18-2025 at 17:00 comment
Science fiction writers love to explore the hypothetical possibilities of new technologies and their impact on life in the future. And one of the most frequently recreated concepts is virtual reality, which opens up a limitless range of exciting prospects for humanity: moving consciousness into digital avatars, games that are almost…

There is no hiding from AI: new version of ChatGPT determines location coordinates from a single photo

News Technologies 04-18-2025 at 12:03 comment
It’s even harder to hide from artificial intelligence now — the latest ChatGPT model can guess your location from almost any photo.

25 billion operations per second: researchers have created the world’s fastest flash drive

News Technologies 04-18-2025 at 10:56 comment
Researchers from Fudan University in China have created the world’s fastest flash memory, which performs about 25 billion operations per second.

Don’t thank ChatGPT — OpenAI spends «tens of millions of dollars» on your courtesy

News Technologies 04-17-2025 at 14:12 comment
It turns out that your polite communication with ChatGPT is costing the company that developed it a lot.

A first look at Xbox Copilot, Microsoft’s AI assistant that helps you win games

News Software 04-17-2025 at 10:26 comment
Microsoft has begun testing an early version of Copilot for Gaming, a gaming assistant. The company’s employees already have access to Copilot in the Xbox mobile app. Although it looks similar to the existing Copilot chatbot, it was designed to integrate with an Xbox account.

OpenAI has released o3 and o4-mini — the first AI models that «think with pictures»

News Technologies 04-17-2025 at 09:33 comment
OpenAI presented its new AI models — o3 and o4-mini, which use all available ChatGPT features (internet search, image generation, etc.) but have an additional option «image reasoning».

Gemini has learned to generate 720p video, but with a limit of 8 seconds

News Software 04-16-2025 at 18:17 comment
Gemini Advanced users can now generate videos using the Veo 2 model. To do this, just make a text request and describe your idea.

CEO of GitHub: «Coding should become a core subject in schools»

News IT business 04-16-2025 at 11:26 comment
In a recent podcast, GitHub CEO Thomas Domke said that future programmers should learn coding as early as possible — and it would be great if such a subject became one of the main subjects in schools.

OpenAI releases special AI models for IT professionals — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano

News Software 04-15-2025 at 09:42 comment
New family of OpenAI models includes GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano variants — all specialize in programming, have a context window of 1 million tokens (about 750 million words), and an output window of 32 thousand tokens, but are currently available only through the API.

In «Diia» will launch an online driving license exam ─ without queues and with AI for control

News Auto 04-14-2025 at 09:06 comment
The «Diia» app plans to launch an online exam for obtaining a driver’s license. In this case, it will be possible to pass the theoretical part of the exam without visiting the service centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was announced during a national telethon by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation,…

Instead of AI — hundreds of Filipinos: «smart» $88 million Nate app turned out to be a fake

News Technologies 04-11-2025 at 14:18 comment
The startup Nate promised customers one-click shopping thanks to AI, but in reality, hundreds of Filipinos placed orders manually.

Scientists have created the most advanced 3D map of the brain — with 4 km of neurons and more than 200 thousand cells

News Science and space 04-10-2025 at 16:25 comment
International team of researchers creates the most advanced 3D map of the mouse visual cortex.

«The result in 2-3 minutes»: WordPress has launched an AI website builder — free, but with limitations

News Technologies 04-10-2025 at 11:37 comment
WordPress introduced A new website builder powered by artificial intelligence is now available in early access, delivering a ready-made result «in minutes» based on your text promptsYou can further refine your queries by specifying images, titles, or other details. At the moment, the builder offers basic results that are suitable for stub sites,…

Claude chatbot received a subscription fee of Max — $200 per month and 20 times higher limits

News Software 04-10-2025 at 09:07 comment
Anthropic introduced a new tariff plan for active users of the Claude chatbot with expanded limits and priority access to new models and features, but at a crazy price.

Dmytro Dubilet: «Artificial intelligence is the only solution to replace corrupt judges»

News Software 04-09-2025 at 18:04 comment
After a long information silence, former Cabinet of Ministers Minister Dmytro Dubilet shared with another idea to improve the lives of Ukrainians with the help of information technology. This time, the co-founder of Monobank proposes to improve the judicial system of Ukraine with the help of artificial intelligence.

Copilot in Windows 11 can now see your screen — it might be time to hide some tabs

News Software 04-09-2025 at 13:20 comment
Program Copilot for Windows 11 received a new feature — Copilot Vision, which allows the chatbot to see and interact with what is on your screen and in the OSThe feature was already available in Microsoft Edge, and now it can be tested on laptops and PCs running Windows 11 All permissions for the chatbot are controlled by the user — that is,…

For the first time in the world: China tunes AI with 1 billion parameters on a quantum computer

News Technologies 04-09-2025 at 10:37 comment
Chinese scientists have used the Origin Wukong quantum computer to fine-tune a large language model with a billion different parameters.

Google pays salaries to AI engineers for a year after dismissal — to prevent them from leaving for competitors

News IT business 04-08-2025 at 11:46 comment
Artificial intelligence specialists are worth their weight in gold, so some large companies pay them extra just to keep them from leaving for competitors.

Meta has launched the first two Llama 4 models: multimodal, fast and powerful — two more on the way

News Software 04-07-2025 at 11:55 comment
Meta presented the first two models from the Llama 4 multimodal family: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. There will be four models in the family in total. Two of them have already been launched, and the rest will appear later. According to Meta, all of them were trained on a large amount of unannotated text, images, and videos to gain extensive…

The first trailer «Tron: Ares» — Jared Leto’s artificial intelligence enters the real world

News Movie 04-05-2025 at 22:31 comment
40 years after the release of the first «Tron», Disney’s sci-fi film series returned with a threequel starring Jared Leto.

Microsoft launches Copilot search engine and makes Copilot for Windows native (yes, again)

News Software 04-04-2025 at 18:19 comment
Artificial intelligence is actually replacing traditional search engines. We can already see this in the example of AI reviews in Google Search, as well as the launch of SearchGPT by OpenAI. Even alternative search engines such as DuckDuckGo are starting to integrate AI into their platforms, and this trend is not slowing down.

Google DeepMind describes in detail how artificial intelligence can destroy the world

News Technologies 04-04-2025 at 14:56 comment
Google DeepMind researchers have been working on the security problem of general artificial intelligence (AGI) and released a document that explains the risks and principles of safe development.

Microsoft research: artificial intelligence reduces the ability to think critically

News Science and space 04-04-2025 at 13:53 comment
Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University have found that excessive use of artificial intelligence systems undermines critical thinking skills.

Midjourney updated to V7 — «cheap» draft mode and 10x faster image generation

News Technologies 04-04-2025 at 13:06 comment
Midjourney, one of the first AI-based image generators, has received a new version.

Galaxy A gets Samsung’s smart features: what is Awesome Intelligence?

News Devices 04-03-2025 at 19:26 comment
Samsung is introducing a new series of artificial intelligence features called Awesome Intelligence. And the first smartphones to receive it will be Galaxy A series devices. The new set of features resembles the powerful Galaxy AI suite, providing A-series models with additional capabilities.

Did ChatGPT invent Trump’s tariffs? A crazy new social media theory reveals «conspiracy» the US government and AI

News WTF 04-03-2025 at 12:39 comment
Twitter users / X promote a new crazy theory that suggests that the US government turned to artificial intelligence to calculate new tariffs. The evidence in this case is that all the leading chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok — use the same formula that the US government used to calculate the new tariffs.

OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 artificial intelligence passes the Turing test «more often than real people», — research

News Science and space 04-03-2025 at 11:19 comment
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have demonstrated for the first time the passage of artificial intelligence systems a three-way version of the classic Turing test.

ChatGPT Reaches 20 Million Paid Users, OpenAI’s Revenue Increases by 30% in Three Months

News IT business 04-02-2025 at 13:50 comment
OpenAI is growing its ChatGPT subscriber base at an extremely fast pace. Since the beginning of the year, it has added 4.5 million users. The growth can be compared to a rocket.

New ChatGPT image generator creates incredibly realistic fake checks

News Software 04-01-2025 at 18:51 comment
Last month OpenAI has added improved image generation to GPT-4o, which allows you to create realistic images. Among other things, the generation of text on images has been significantly improved. People have already started using this feature to create fake restaurant receipts, which may become another tool in the already wide arsenal of AI…

Is humanity really getting dumber? What scientists say about the global IQ decline

Science and space Articles 04-01-2025 at 17:00 comment
We have all taken an intelligence quotient (IQ) test at least once in our lives. Some of us did it at school. And someone — out of sheer curiosity. A value above 70 means that a person is definitely not an idiot. And if the IQ is 160, congratulations, the next Einstein! However, this test […]

OpenAI will release a model with open scales – what does this mean?

News Software 04-01-2025 at 10:23 comment
Sam Altman announced on X (formerly Twitter) that OpenAI plans to release an open-weights model within a few months. This is different from the company’s previous approach, when models such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 were only available through the API. Until now, users could only work with these models through the OpenAI interface or by…

NVIDIA Project G-Assist «AI assistant puts slideshows on» RTX 5080 — blades instead of games

News Software 03-31-2025 at 16:23 comment
Recently, NVIDIA introduced Project G-Assist as part of an update to its NVIDIA App. As the company explains, G-Assist is a local small-scale artificial intelligence model that runs locally directly on RTX graphics cards. The first reviews of this innovation have already appeared online.

Ukrainians have created a YouTube viewer — AI provides video design after analyzing the scenario and audience

News Technologies 03-31-2025 at 14:55 comment
Two Ukrainians have created Thumbnailed it, an artificial intelligence-based tool for improving YouTube views. The startup is attracting investment and planning to expand.

Warner Bros. and Paramount monetize fake trailers on YouTube, — Deadline

News Movie 03-31-2025 at 10:37 comment
Major Hollywood studios have invented a new method of fighting fake trailers on YouTube by simply turning them into another source of revenue.

The smartest AI Google Gemini 2.5 Pro suddenly became free for everyone

News Technologies 03-30-2025 at 21:19 comment
Google unexpectedly announced on Saturday, releasing the latest Geminі 2.5 Pro (experimental) model to all users — including free users.

Why Elon Musk sold X (Twitter) to himself for $33 billion

News IT business 03-29-2025 at 14:45 comment
On Friday, March 28, Elon Musk announced about the acquisition of social network X (formerly Twitter) by his own company xAI. The reason for the deal may lie on the surface.

Garmin adds «lots of AI» to Garmin Connect — app with $6.99/month subscription

News Devices 03-27-2025 at 14:11 comment
The once free Garmin smartwatch app has received a premium subscription — Garmin Connect+, which will cost $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year (there is also a free 30-day version) and offer a host of new AI features.

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