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Writer Fuel: Scientists Build Supercomputing Network to Foster Artificial Intelligence. What Could Go Wrong?

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Researchers plan to accelerate the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) with a worldwide network of extremely powerful computers — starting with a new supercomputer that came online in September. Artificial intelligence (AI) spans technologies including machine learning and generative AI systems like GPT-4. The latter offer predictive reasoning based on training from a large … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Sending “Touch” Over the Internet Could Soon Be Easy

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The next evolution of the internet could involve digitally transmitting the sense of touch, which may transform remote surgery and usher in a whole new era of online gaming. Researchers have developed a “Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet” (HCTI) standard that allows haptic information to be sent both ways across a network via data … Read more

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WRITER FUEL: Should We Worry That People Are Falling In Love With AI?

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Over the past decade, virtual assistants powered by artificial intelligence, like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, have become integral to technologies such as smartphones and social media. More recently, a new type of human-like chatbots are on the rise: AI romantic companions. Chatbots are AI-powered programs that engage with humans through text, voice and images. … Read more

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The Antikythera Mechanism, the World’s Oldest Computer, Followd the Greek Lunar Calendar

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The Antikythera mechanism — an ancient shoebox-sized device that was used to track the motions of the sun, moon and planets — followed the Greek lunar calendar, not the solar one used by the Egyptians, as was previously thought, new research reveals. The Antikythera mechanism, found by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera … Read more

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Writer Fuel: OpenAI Shuts Down AI Running for Mayor in Wyoming

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An artificial intelligence (AI) model that was running for mayor in Wyoming has been taken offline — to the likely relief of its human rivals. The system, a customized version of the large language model (LLM) GPT-4 that powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT, was running for mayor in Cheyenne, Wyoming under the name “VIC,” which is short … Read more

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Writer Fuel: AI Fighting AI – new Tool Has 98% Accuracy at Detecting Deepfake Videos

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With the release of artificial intelligence (AI) video generation products like Sora and Luma, we’re on the verge of a flood of AI-generated video content, and policymakers, public figures and software engineers are already warning about a deluge of deepfakes. Now it seems that AI itself might be our best defense against AI fakery after … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Will Generative AI Finish Eating the Internet by 2026?

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Artificial intelligence (AI) systems could devour all of the internet’s free knowledge as soon as 2026, a new study has warned. AI models such as GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT, or Claude 3 Opus rely on the many trillions of words shared online to get smarter, but new projections suggest they will exhaust the supply of … Read more

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Writer Fuel: AI Easily Picks Out the Human in a Reverse Turing Test

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Five artificial intelligence (AI) models, one each adopting the role of Aristotle, Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci, Cleopatra and Genghis Khan, are sitting inside the compartment of a moving train. But one is secretly human, and it’s their collective task to guess the imposter. That’s the setup of a viral video that pitted a range of … Read more

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Writer Fuel: GPT-4 Passes the Turing Test

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We are interacting with artificial intelligence (AI) online not only more than ever — but more than we realize — so researchers asked people to converse with four agents, including one human and three different kinds of AI models, to see whether they could tell the difference. The “Turing test,” first proposed as “the imitation … Read more

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Writer Fuel: MIT Gives AI the Power to Reason. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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MIT researchers have developed a new method to help artificial intelligence (AI) systems conduct complex reasoning tasks in three areas including coding, strategic planning and robotics. Large language models (LLMs), which include ChatGPT and Claude 3 Opus, process and generate text based on human input, known as “prompts.” These technologies have improved greatly in the … Read more