«Policy changes»: Glassdoor, an anonymous employer review site, has started de-anonymizing employees
Glassdoor, a platform for publishing anonymous reviews of employers, has started adding real names to users’ profiles without their consent.
AI Act — is done. So what will (and what will not) change the first full-fledged Law on Artificial Intelligence in the EU?
Last week, the EU Parliament voted for the approval of the Law on Artificial Intelligence, which was first presented three years ago — in fact, the document has passed the last bureaucratic round and is now approaching official implementation.
OpenAI is likely to release «significantly better» GPT-5 in summer 2024
According to the sources of the publication Business Insider (two people close to the company), OpenAI is preparing to release the next version of its GPT-5 language model in the coming months (probably mid-year).
NVIDIA and Ubisoft are working on NEO NPCs - AI characters that can react to the actions of players and the environment
NVIDIA has been working on adding generative AI to non-player characters (NPCs) for some time now. During the Game Developers Conference, it showedhow developers can use its artificial intelligence «digital human» tools to voice, animate, and create dialogues for video game characters.
The world of mobile technology before the Apple iPhone: the best phones of 2002-2003
We continue our series of articles «The World of Mobile Technology before the Apple iPhone», where we talk about the best mobile devices that came out before the first Apple iPhone in 2007. Today, we’ll take a look at popular, technologically advanced, unique, and surprising phones and smartphones released in 2002 and 2003. In general,…
Google Deepmind and FC «Liverpool» have created a football coach based on artificial intelligence
Google DeepMind and Premier League club «Liverpool» have created a prototype of the TacticAI artificial intelligence model for football training. The DeepMind lab, which has previously used AI for complex board games such as Go, notes that AI can be trained on patterns that can be seen on sports fields.
Nvidia AI can turn game characters into chatbots - NPCs with «unique» interaction
During the Game Developers Conference, Nvidia showed how developers can use its artificial intelligence tools «digital human» to voice, animate, and create dialogues for video game characters.
Nvidia launches «digital twin» Omniverse technology on Apple Vision Pro
Omniverse — is Nvidia’s enterprise platform that allows programmers to create digital copies of objects and places and analyze how they would look or behave in the real world.
Vodafone has launched a mobile tariff comparison service — for all Ukrainian operators
All you need to do is go to the Vodafone website, open page Tariff selection and enter the amount you are willing to spend on a monthly basis for mobile services.
Forced to leave «voluntarily»? Dell denied career development to employees on the repair site
The American tech company Dell warns all employees on a remount that they will not be eligible for a promotion without attending the office.
OpenAI boss Sam Altman says the world «doesn't need another copy of Google» because it's «boring»
Instead, developers should focus on creating new ways for people to search and analyze information.
C++ creator criticizes US government for calling to abandon «dangerous programming language»
C++ author Bjarne Straustrup criticized the US government, which urged developers to use «memory-safe» programming languages and avoid using vulnerable ones such as C++ and C.
Nvidia launches platform with generative AI to create humanoid robots
Generative AI will help robots perform actions based on input — a combination of text and speech, video, «human demonstrations» and previous experience.
Cyberpunk is over, solarpunk is done. Figma CEO says the world is moving to new design trends
It’s time for a friendlier, softer, more people-oriented style.
OpenAI to launch prepaid billing API on March 25
Instead of monthly billing, the company will provide a certain number of credits for using its API or Playground.
PSSR technology is designed to provide 4K 120 fps and 8K 60 fps output on PlayStation consoles
The next version of the PlayStation 5 Pro game console will support the new PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) technology. It is designed to enable the console to display games at 4K 120 fps and 8K 60 fps. This is a kind of analog of DLSS.
The sale of lifecell to the French NJJ Capital should take place by September 2024, and then — a possible merger with «Datagroup» and Volia
In December, Turkcell (the parent company of lifecell) announced the sale of Ukrainian assets to French NJJ Capital — the deal is valued at $525 million, but cannot be closed within three months due to seizure of 19.8% of corporate rights in lifecell (the reason is that Turkcell’s indirect shareholders include sanctioned Russian businessman…
Employee and company competitions: games will appear on LinkedIn
LinkedIn, a social network for searching and establishing business contacts, is planning to add games to its functionality.
Mark Gurman: Apple is in talks with Google to integrate Gemini AI model into iPhone
Apple has also recently discussed the prospects of cooperation with ChatGPT developer OpenAI.
Elon Musk «declassified» the source code of his chatbot Grok — without training data yet
From now on, developers and researchers will be able to use the architecture on which Grok operates in their own projects.
Google I/O 2024 conference will be held on May 14
Google has announced the date of this year’s I/O conference. The event is scheduled for May 14 in Mountain View.
Larry Ellison and Elon Musk team up to apply artificial intelligence to agriculture
Musk’s SpaceX and Ellison’s Oracle will create a new mapping program that will display the types and volumes of agricultural products in the United States, reports Business Insider
Italian IronLev has tested «passive» maglev levitation on conventional railroad tracks
A maglev is a train on magnetic suspension, driven and controlled by magnetic forces, and unlike traditional rail transport, it does not touch the rail surface.
Microsoft adds GPT-4 Turbo to the free version of Copilot Pro: you can create chatbots
Microsoft has extended its subscription to Copilot Pro and provided an opportunity for all users to test LLM GPT-4 Turbo from OpenAI.
The century-old blue giant: the history of IBM
February 2024 marks two anniversaries related to one of the world’s largest information technology corporations: February 14 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the day when the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changed its name to IBM (International Business Machines), and February 17 marks the one and a half centenary of the birth…
US border guards to use X-rays and artificial intelligence to detect drugs
Currently, «high-tech machines» (which are essentially very powerful X-rays) for detecting drugs are being installed at the borders, and their work should be accelerated by artificial intelligence in the future.
Lithuanian startup Broswarm receives $100 thousand to mine Ukraine with drones
A startup in the field of defense technology Broswarm, which specializes in demining processes, has raised $100,000 in funding from a Lithuanian venture capital fund ScaleWolf.
GPT-4 artificial intelligence is able to play Doom and does not hesitate when shooting at virtual objects in the form of people
Microsoft scientist and York University researcher Adrian de Winter recently decided to test GPT-4 by running Doom without prior training. The results of this experiment concluded that GPT-4 can play Doom with a certain degree of efficiency without prior training. Although this requires the GPT-4V interface to see the AI and the addition of…
Tesla Optimus can't do that. The Figure AI robot received voice, hearing and vision thanks to OpenAI technologies
It seems that Musk has a one more reason to hate OpenAI.
The incident with the Saudi humanoid robot shows that machines will not be able to take over the world yet
Saudi Arabia’s first «male» humanoid robot has caused a stir after touching a female reporter inappropriately at an artificial intelligence conference last week.
No compensation. ChatGPT's expansion forces Chegg.com's education platform to layoffs in Ukraine
The American educational platform Chegg.com is conducting massive layoffs. In particular, Ukrainian specialists have been laid off. About it reported DOU-related telegram channel «Overheard in IT».
Amazon offers sellers to generate a product page based on its website using artificial intelligence
Sellers on Amazon will soon be able to create product pages automatically using artificial intelligence. The marketplace is releasing a new AI generative feature that takes information from a seller’s external website and then generates a product page on Amazon with a written description and images.
The EU Parliament has approved the AI Act — «the world's strictest» law on artificial intelligence regulation. What's next?
After reaching political consensus in December, EU lawmakers approved by a majority vote (523 — «for») a landmark document that will regulate AI and require transparency from suppliers, reports The Verge.
Arm unveils new processors and technologies for self-driving cars — deliveries to manufacturers from 2025
On March 13, 2024, Arm announced Arm Automotive Enhanced (AE), processors for self-driving cars, and Arm Compute Subsystem for Automotive, a new development system for automakers and their suppliers. Arm claims that this initiative can «reduce the development cycle of AI-enabled vehicles by up to two years».
Sign language interpreter, anti-cyberbullying, educational applications: Ukrainian schoolchildren presented their artificial intelligence projects
This year, Ukraine is participating for the first time in the international Teens in AI hackathon, which takes place in more than 40 countries. Last weekend, the national stage of the competition took place, where 10 teams of schoolchildren presented their ideas on how to use AI to solve global problems.
Midjourney is testing a function that will allow «to save» the image of a given character to generate future images
From now on, users can provide the neural network with a reference image of a person and set up the generation so that the next image looks the same.
«Wild disappointment»: tech manager says the internet is stagnating», just like space exploration after the 1970s
Tuesday marked the 35th anniversary of the moment when renowned computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee presented his vision of what would become known as the «World Wide Web». At the same time, Akamai’s Chief Technology Officer Robert Blumoff believes that after a breakthrough and years of development, the Internet is now stagnating.
AI large language models (LLMs) become «more covertly racist» after human intervention
From the very beginning, it was clear that large-scale language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT absorb racist messages from the millions of Internet pages they are trained on. Developers have responded to this by trying to make them less toxic. But new research shows that these efforts, especially as the models get bigger, only serve to stifle racist…
Hypersonic aircraft Stratolaunch TA-1 conducted a test flight and reached a speed of about Mach 5
California-based startup Stratolaunch has completed the first flight of its Talon-A hypersonic aircraft with an active engine. The startup’s ultimate goal is to develop a reusable version of the aircraft capable of flying at 5 times the speed of sound.
A giant «sand battery» can provide heat to an entire city in Finland for a week
A pilot plant developed by Polar Night Energy has been operating since 2022, and now an industrial (10 times larger) «sand battery» is to be launched in Finland for use during cold polar nights.
Researchers can «repair» Internet connections using 3D chips for Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi networks slow down when more people or devices use them. The same thing happens with large systems. If too many people gather in one place, cell towers cannot handle the influx. As the number of connected devices grows exponentially, and the coming wave of artificial intelligence could further exacerbate the problem, big «data congestion»…
Midjourney bans Stability AI employees after data theft attempt
At the beginning of the month, the service faced a 24-hour outage — allegedly due to «botnet activity» two accounts associated with a competitor company, Stability AI.
NKEC amends MNP: prohibits restrictions and introduces an audible alarm instead of a voice warning
The National Commission for the State Regulation of Electronic Communications, Radio Frequency Spectrum and Postal Services (NCCS) proposes to introduce some changes to the Procedure for the provision of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) services.
How do you like this, OpenAI? Elon Musk to open source his Grok chatbot
Last week, Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI with accusations of abandoning the original mission «to develop AI for the benefit of humanity» in favor of making money.
Breakthrough in matrix multiplication should lead to faster and more efficient AI models
Computer scientists have discovered a new way to multiply large matrices faster by eliminating a previously unknown inefficiency, leading to the largest improvement in matrix multiplication efficiency in a decade. This could eventually speed up artificial intelligence models that rely heavily on matrix multiplication.
YouTube stopped showing recommendations after logging out of Google account and in incognito mode
Instead, users are shown a homepage without videos and viewing tips.
Three writers to sue Nvidia for illegal use of their books for AI training
The class action lawsuit, filed Friday night in a San Francisco federal court, says Nvidia used the copyrighted books to train its new NeMo platform, created by the chipmaker as a «fast and affordable way to implement generative AI».
Marilyn Monroe joins the list of dead celebrities who were «resurrected» without consent using artificial intelligence
In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about the practice of using digital images of celebrities without their consent, both after their death and during their lifetime. For example, Zelda Williams, filmmaker and daughter of Robin Williams — last year criticized the «disturbing» the trend of people trying to recreate the voices and…
The Ministry of Digital Transformation presented a vision of open data development in Ukraine
During the Open Data Day 2024 event, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov presented a vision of open data development in Ukraine.
GPT4 is recognized as the best AI model in the chatbot arena
The LMSYS Chatbot Arena service has updated the rating of large language models of artificial intelligence. It allows you to evaluate which models are currently doing the best job.
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