Category: artificial intelligence
Robotic AI performs successful surgery after watching videos for training
Watching old episodes of ER won’t make you a doctor, but watching videos may be all the training a robotic surgeon’s AI brain needs to sew you up after a procedure. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University have published a new paper showing off a surgical robot as…
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Daisy the AI granny is here to answer calls from scammers and waste their time
O2 has created an AI granny that will trap scammers in meandering conversations to waste as much of their time as possible Daisy is trained on real anonymized scammer data in partnership with well-known scambaiter Jim Browning of the YouTube channel Tech Support Scams New survey reveals that 7 in…
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The Washington Post has an AI newsboy to answer all your questions
The Washington Post has unveiled a new AI chatbot called “Ask The Post AI,” which aims to answer user questions accurately by relying on the newspaper’s content. The new AI chatbot follows the Climate Answers chatbot, which the publication released earlier this year. Unlike the climate journalism-focused Climate Answers, Ask…
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Might be time to ‘Twist and Shout’ – The Beatles’ AI-restored song ‘Now and Then’ lands Grammy nominations
The Beatles have scored Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance for their song “Now and Then,” a ‘lost’ track recovered and restored using AI. This is the first time a song produced with AI assistance has earned such recognition and could portend plenty of arguments…
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OpenAI’s next-gen Orion model is hitting a serious bottleneck, according to a new report – here’s why
OpenAI is reportedly having trouble with Orion in certain areas like coding Progress is slower than expected due to quality issues with training data The next-gen model could also be more expensive OpenAI is running into difficulties with Orion, the next-gen model powering its AI. The company is struggling in…
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How to delete a character from Character AI
Character AI has a huge catalog of virtual personalities derived from history, fiction, and the imaginations of users. But, sometimes, you might make a character and later decide you don’t want to have it on the platform anymore. And while you can’t actually outright delete third-party AI-generated characters, in this…
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