Tag: computing
I’m way worse at Taskmaster and hiding a corpse than I thought I’d be – my favorite Meta Quest 3 games and apps for July 2024
This month of VR gaming has been a wonderfully weird one as I venture through the Meta Quest 3‘s latest wacky puzzle games – and then work my frustration out in a high-octane VR battle royale. I finally got to experience what it’s like to be in Taskmaster (it’s harder…
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The world’s first Miss AI has been crowned
Artificial intelligence-powered influencer Kenza Layli has been crowned the first Miss AI by the World AI Creator Awards (WAICA). Layli, built by Moroccan company Phoenix AI marketing agency, beat out more than 1,500 other virtual models in the inaugural virtual beauty pageant. “I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity to…
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OpenAI has a new scale for measuring how smart their AI models are becoming – which is not as comforting as it should be
OpenAI has developed an internal scale for charting the progress of its large language models moving toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to a report from Bloomberg. AGI usually means AI with human-like intelligence and is considered the broad goal for AI developers. In earlier references, OpenAI defined AGI as…
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Intel Arrow Lake may not arrive until December – and that could seal AMD’s Ryzen 9000 victory in next-gen CPU war
Intel’s Arrow Lake processors may not arrive until the very end of 2024, if a new rumor is right. This one comes from regular hardware leaker HXL as shared on X in a very brief statement that informs us that Arrow Lake sales won’t kick off until December. In case…
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Survey finds most people would rather switch companies than deal with AI customer service
You may have noticed that some standard automated customer service systems have been replaced with more sophisticated AI assistants in the last couple of years. The more conversational interactions and other advances aren’t very popular, though, according to a new Gartner survey. In fact, 64% of customers would prefer companies…
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Windows 11 is getting useful widget tweaks, but not the change we really want – Microsoft should learn from macOS
Windows 11 has a new preview build and it applies some useful changes to widgets on the lock screen – although not the addition to the mix that we really want – and other tweaks besides. This is preview build 26252 in the Canary channel (the earliest test versions of…
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