Month: July 2024
Forget Sora, Runway is the AI video maker coming to blow your mind
Artificial intelligence-powered video maker Runway has officially launched its new Gen-3 Alpha model after teasing its debut a few weeks ago. The Gen-3 Alpha video creator offers major upgrades in creating hyper-realistic videos from user prompts. It’s a significant advancement over the Gen-2 model released early last year. Runway’s Gen-3…
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Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results
Google adjusted its policies to target AI spam earlier this year, but plagiarizing content still comes up higher in search results months later—and SEO experts aren’t sure why. Source
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A year of Paramount Plus with Showtime is half off ahead of its impending price hike
With a Paramount Plus price hike coming on August 20th, now might be a good time to secure a year’s worth of access to the streaming service. Thankfully, Paramount is offering new and returning subscribers 50 percent off its Paramount Plus with Showtime plan, dropping the price of an annual…
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‘No one knows what makes humans so much more efficient’: small language models based on Homo Sapiens could help explain how we learn and improve AI efficiency — for better or for worse
Tech companies are shifting focus from building the largest language models (LLMs) to developing smaller ones (SLMs) that can match or even outperform them. Meta’s Llama 3 (400 billion parameters), OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 (175 billion parameters), and GPT-4 (an estimated 1.8 trillion parameters) are famously larger models, while Microsoft‘s Phi-3 family…
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The Pixel 9’s ‘Google AI’ is like Microsoft Recall but a little less creepy
The next generation of Pixel phones could come with new “Google AI” features, including one that sounds a little like Microsoft’s controversial Recall tool. As reported by Android Authority, Google is working on a “Pixel Screenshots” feature that can “save and process helpful details” from your screenshots, allowing you to…
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Turns out, people don’t really want console games on iPhone – but I think that misses the point
I am totally unsurprised that demand for triple-A games on iPhones and iPads reportedly isn’t high and could be considered commercial failures, according to data from Appfigures via MobileGamer.biz. Despite Apple having worked on getting Death Standing, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, and Resident Evil 7 ported over from last- and current-generation…
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