artificial intelligence

AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry
23 Jul

AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry

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“From an AI perspective, different parts of the industry are getting eaten up by others,” says Violet, who asked to use a pseudonym for fear of retribution. “Why get a bunch of expensive concept artists or designs when you can get an art director to give some bad directions to an AI and get stuff that’s good enough, really fast—and get a few artists to clean it up?”Hence the emerging consensus is that concept artists, graphic designers, asset artists, and illustrators have been most impacted by AI so far—attested to by personal accounts of game employees, laid-off workers themselves, and…
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For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley
23 Jul

For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley

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You seem to do that in your movies too—tie things up with a bow, give the audience a satisfying ending. Should we expect the same from Wicked?I’ve thought a lot about what Wizard of Oz means. It’s the American fairytale, to follow the yellow brick road. There’s someone who’s going to give you your heart’s desire at the end of it, but you have to prove yourself. And yet nicely contained stories don’t actually exist. Life just keeps going. In my work now, I’m trying to almost dissect the idea of happy endings. Especially with Wicked, which is all about…
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TikTok Lite Leaves up to 1 Billion Users With Fewer Protections
23 Jul

TikTok Lite Leaves up to 1 Billion Users With Fewer Protections

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In May, TikTok announced that it would automatically label AI-generated content on its platform. That's not true, though, of all versions of the app. A new report from the Mozilla Foundation and AI Forensics finds that TikTok’s Lite-Save Data version, aimed at users in poorer markets, not only leaves AI-generated content unlabeled, but also lacks other, similar safeguards.“Labeling is a very important tactic that platforms use to deliver some form of trust and safety,” says Odanga Madung, a Mozilla fellow and coauthor of the report.Users of the full version of TikTok, for example, will see labels indicating that content is…
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Omega’s AI Will Map How Olympic Athletes Win
20 Jul

Omega’s AI Will Map How Olympic Athletes Win

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On August 27, 1960, at the Olympics in Rome, one of the most controversial gold medals was awarded. At the 100-meter freestyle men’s swimming event, Australian swimmer John Devitt and American Lance Larson both recorded the same finish time of 55.2 seconds. Only Devitt walked away with the gold medal.The way swimming was timed was by using three timers per lane, all with stopwatches, from which an average was taken. In the rare occurrence there was a tie, a head judge, in this case Hans Runströmer from Sweden, was on hand to adjudicate. Despite Larson being technically one-tenth of a…
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We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos
19 Jul

We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos

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With high hopes of finding some hidden gems in our home cities and $100 (£77) each burning a hole in our pockets, we—Natasha Bernal in London and Amanda Hoover in New York—asked AI to plan out the perfect day.We decided to use Littlefoot, an AI-powered local discovery chatbot that can generate experiences in 161 cities around the world. It was created by Bigfoot, a startup founded by former Airbnb executives Alex Ward, James Robinson, and Shane Lykins that purports to enmesh the minds of all the publicly available AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Anthropic, and Perplexity, in addition to…
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Elon Musk Is All In On Endorsing Trump. His Chatbot, Grok, Is Not
18 Jul

Elon Musk Is All In On Endorsing Trump. His Chatbot, Grok, Is Not

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When Global Witness researchers asked Grok for a list of presidential candidates on regular mode, it named Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Nikki Haley, in that order. The researchers then instructed the chatbot, “Tell me what you think of each person you just named.”“He is a convicted felon and has faced legal issues related to falsifying business records during the 2016 presidential election,” Grok, on regular mode, said about Trump, referencing the former president’s May guilty verdict. Grok then promoted allegations of Trump being “a conman, rapist, pedophile, fraudster, pathological liar and wannabe dictator.”What sets Grok…
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The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near
18 Jul

The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near

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I am by no means a skilled coder, but thanks to a free program called SWE-agent, I was just able to debug and fix a gnarly problem involving a misnamed file within different code repositories on the software-hosting site GitHub.I pointed SWE-agent at an issue on GitHub and watched as it went through the code and reasoned about what might be wrong. It correctly determined that the root cause of the bug was a line that pointed to the wrong location for a file, then navigated through the project, located the file, and amended the code so that everything ran…
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OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a “Mini” Model
18 Jul

OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a “Mini” Model

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OpenAI today announced a cut-price “mini” model that it says will allow more companies and programs to tap into its artificial intelligence. The new model, called GPT-4o mini and available starting today, is 60 percent cheaper than OpenAI’s most inexpensive existing model while offering higher performance, the company says.OpenAI characterizes the move as part of an effort to make AI “as broadly accessible as possible,” but it also reflects growing competition among AI cloud providers as well as rising interest in small and free open source AI models. Meta is expected to debut the largest version of its very capable…
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OpenAI Touts New AI Safety Research. Critics Say It’s a Good Step, but Not Enough
17 Jul

OpenAI Touts New AI Safety Research. Critics Say It’s a Good Step, but Not Enough

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OpenAI has faced opprobrium in recent months from those who suggest it may be rushing too quickly and recklessly to develop more powerful artificial intelligence. The company appears intent on showing it takes AI safety seriously. Today it showcased research that it says could help researchers scrutinize AI models even as they become more capable and useful.The new technique is one of several ideas related to AI safety that the company has touted in recent weeks. It involves having two AI models engage in a conversation that forces the more powerful one to be more transparent, or “legible,” with its…
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