Month: April 2024
Alaska is gonna try and use a robot to scare wildlife from around an airport
The Alaskan government has a new four-legged friend keeping migratory birds and other animals away from the runways at Fairbanks International Airport: a dog-like Boston Dynamics robot dubbed “Aurora.” The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities posted its “new hire” on Instagram last month, saying that the robot will…
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Hallucinated packages could be the next big security risk hitting AI developers
The risks of Generative AI tools being able to “hallucinate” – or suggest sources, or tools, that don’t exist – has long been a concern for developers. Now, experts have warned that if a threat actor discovers a Generative AI hallucination of a, let’s say, software package, they can actually…
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ChatGPT just took a big step towards becoming the next Google with its new account-free version
The most widely available (and free) version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT-3.5, is being made available to use without having to create and log into a personal account. That means you can have conversations with the AI chatbot without it being tied to personal details like your email. However, OpenAI, the tech…
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Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders
Instagram’s co-founders built a powerful and useful tool for recommending news to readers — but could never quite get it to scale. Yahoo has hundreds of millions of readers — but could use a dose of tech-forward cool to separate it from all the internet’s other news aggregators. And so, the two…
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Immortals of Aveum is getting HDR and FSR 3 support on console “in just a few short weeks”
Magical first-person shooter Immortals of Aveum is set to get some pretty meaningful updates to its console versions on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in the coming weeks thanks to the addition of high dynamic range (HDR) and AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) frame generation support. As reported…
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Microsoft is working on an Xbox AI chatbot
Microsoft is currently testing a new AI-powered Xbox chatbot that can be used to automate support tasks. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the software giant has been testing an “embodied AI character” that animates when responding to Xbox support queries. I understand this Xbox AI chatbot…
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