Tag: artificial intelligence

The AI Friend necklace is the worst parts of Fight Club and Beautiful Mind put together

Recently I was watching a TV series in which the main character was, as I like to call it, “Beautiful Minded”. For multiple episodes, he was talking to an old friend, one who did not always have his best interests at heart. It turned out the guy was in his…

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Meta’s new AI model tags and tracks every object in your videos

Meta has a new AI model that can label and follow any object in a video as it moves around. The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) extends the capabilities of its predecessor, SAM, which was limited to images, opening up new opportunities for video editing and analysis.  SAM 2’s…

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Google wants Gemini AI to be the star of every part of your life

Google has made it clear it wants to make its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant as much a part of your life as possible. Unfinished code newly discovered by Android Authority shows how upcoming Gemini extensions will serve that goal. The extensions integrate Gemini with various Google services, and there are…

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Google Gemini will soon let you edit those AI-generated images to fix the 3-eyed dogs and impossible buildings

Artificial intelligence can produce impressive images, but it isn’t uncommon for these images to have weird problems, such as people with too many teeth or cityscapes with Escher-style street layouts. Google Gemini is working on upgrading its AI image creation feature to fix those sorts of problems, as first spotted…

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HP may have plenty of AI software and hardware to show off, but accessibility is AI’s best and only future

Recently I attended an HP Imagine AI event, which covered the full scope of the tech giant’s plans for AI in both its software and hardware. This was one of many recent events, showcases, and hands-on from numerous manufacturers who are clamoring to show media and buyers what it can…

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X is now using your posts (and more) to train its Grok AI, but there’s something you can do about it

X (formerly Twitter) thinks it’s circumvented some of the issues other social media companies such as Meta have bumped up against in regard to training its AI, Grok, on user data and information – but there’s something you can do about it.  X quietly added a setting that allows your…

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