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Dec 5, 2023

OpenAI COO thinks AI for business is overhyped

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

AI can’t transform your business overnight, he said.

OpenAI may be chasing after enterprise users, but some of its executives warn people not to expect the technology to change their businesses quickly.


Brad Lightcap warns that AI is still in its infancy and can’t bring back lost revenue yet.

Dec 5, 2023

Gmail is now much better at detecting spam following major upgrade

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

The new spam detector was tested internally for a year.


Gmail is using a new text vectorizer, called RETVec, to significantly improve spam detection while reducing false positives and latency.

Dec 5, 2023

NVIDIA is Supplying Weapons For The Ongoing AI War, Says Meta’s Chief Scientist

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Meta’s chief scientist sees the current state of the AI industry as an “ongoing war”, claiming that NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang is supplying the weapons for it.

Meta’s Chief Scientist Believes NVIDIA is Fueling “AI Developments” However, It is Far From Human-Level Intelligence

This coverage sort of gives a one-sided perspective of what professionals like Yann perceive about the AI industry, and his comments are fairly interesting, considering that he sees the current state of artificial intelligence as far from resembling “human” characteristics.

Dec 5, 2023

Microsoft’s Seeing AI App is Now Available on Android

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The app helps people who are blind or low vision scan documents and currency and can describe their surroundings.

Microsoft is expanding its Seeing AI app to Android, the company said Monday.

Dec 5, 2023

The roboticist who wants to bring AI into contact with the real world

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Artificial intelligence may never reach its full potential without a body to interact with the physical world. Roboticist Josh Bongard says that the push for “embodied AI” is suggesting a rethink of what it means to design intelligent robots.

By Edd Gent

Dec 5, 2023

TikTok owner ByteDance to launch AI chatbot development platform, memo says

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The “bot development platform” will be launched as a public beta by the end of the month, according to an internal memo seen by the Post.

The move aligns with the company’s new strategic vision to “explore new generative AI products and how they can integrate with the existing ones”, the companywide notice said.

The social media giant has already been working on its own text-to-image generator similar to Midjourney, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Dec 5, 2023

Humans Prefer AI-Generated Content, New Research Suggests

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Pundits who confidently state that generative artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT can never replace human writers now have to rethink that position.


An MIT study showed human subjects rated AI-generated content as better than that created by professional writers.

Dec 5, 2023

CelestialSTAR: How Lufthansa and Boeing’s VVIP cabins redefine luxury

Posted by in category: futurism

CelestialSTAR, the new VVIP cabin for BBJ 777–9, combines Middle Eastern grandeur with cutting-edge design to redefine in-flight magnificence.


Dive into the lap of luxury at 40,000 feet! Lufthansa Technik’s CelestialSTAR for BBJ 777–9 combines Middle Eastern flair with state-of-the-art design, elevating in-flight indulgence to new heights.

Dec 5, 2023

Japanese engineers break record, 20x global internet traffic per second

Posted by in category: internet

Japanese engineers have clocked a data transmission rate of 22.9 petabits per second, thanks to a new optical fiber.


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This was more than double their previous world record of 10.66 petabits per second, as per the press release.

Dec 5, 2023

World’s largest cruise vessel, 5-times Titanic-size to set sail in 2024

Posted by in category: futurism

The Icon of the Seas, measuring 365 metres, is also Royal Carribean’s first ship that can be powered by liquefied natural gas.


Royal Caribbean.

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