Author: aristotle
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All of Our Gadgets Just Keep Talking
Everybody wants to talk to their pet. Or to try to get them to listen, anyway. So it’s no wonder that some startups think the way to break through the communication barrier between you and your pooch is with a nice big helping of technology. Welcome to a world with AI-enabled dog and cat collars
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In the AI Era, Academic Sciences Future Depends on Real World Research
Universities today face many challenges. With today’s market shifts, universities must adapt. Today’s key issues include economic downtrends hitting endowments, enrollment challenges due to rising tuition, and competition from third-party online education and demographic shifts leading to a shrinking pool of new students. Meanwhile, brain drain sees many top-performing scientists elect to enter the private
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Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI Reasoning Can Be
For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced “reasoning” capabilities as the next big step in their latest artificial intelligence models. Now, though, a new study from six Apple engineers shows that the mathematical “reasoning” displayed by advanced large language models can be extremely brittle and unreliable in the face
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Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. Theres Little You Can Do to Stop Them
Drew Crecente’s daughter died in 2006, killed by an ex-boyfriend in Austin, Texas, when she was just 18. Her murder was highly publicized—so much so that Drew would still occasionally see Google alerts for her name, Jennifer Ann Crecente. The alert Drew received a few weeks ago wasn’t the same as the others. It was
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AI-Driven Personalization: Enhancing Consumer Engagement
We live in a world where personalized consumer experiences are increasingly the norm. To think, a couple of decades ago, the only options at the coffee shop were cream and sugar or black. Nowadays, you assume you’ll be able to order your half-caff, no-foam, almond milk cappuccino with two pumps of sugar-free vanilla—anything less would
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How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED Anything you’ve ever posted online—a cringey tweet, an ancient blog post, an enthusiastic restaurant review, or a blurry Instagram selfie—has almost assuredly been gobbled up and used as
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Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech
As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued a comprehensive report this week with a dire warning about the rapid growth of this criminal ecosystem. Many digital scams have traditionally relied on social engineering, or tricking victims into giving
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How Should We Feel About Ring?
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED Ring cameras have come a long way. Since the security camera brand launched 11 years ago, its video doorbells and cams have become vigilant, constant surveyors of patios
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License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars
While people place signs in their lawns or bumper stickers on their cars to inform people of their views and potentially to influence those around them, the ACLU’s Stanley says it is intended for “human-scale visibility,” not that of machines. “Perhaps they want to express themselves in their communities, to their neighbors, but they don’t
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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Is Leaving the Company
OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati resigned on Wednesday, saying she wants “the time and space to do my own exploration.” Murati had been among the three executives at the very top of the company behind ChatGPT, and she was briefly its leader last year while board members wrestled with the fate of CEO Sam