2023 was a labor-heavy year for the entertainment industry thanks to the Hollywood strikes. While actors, writers, and directors now have new deals, other parts of the industry are still working to ensure better conditions and AI safeguards. Were There Any Scenes Cut Connecting Ghostbusters: Afterlife to Frozen Empire? Late Friday night, it was revealed … Read more
The Big Picture HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey” is a complex A.I. with impact, reflecting today’s concerns about artificial intelligence. The film’s portrayal of HAL as a menacing force plays on the blurred lines between morality and technology. HAL’s actions in the film leave viewers questioning his motives and the implications of human-created … Read more
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. What Could the Future of Medical AI Look Like? Last year, after Buzzfeed laid off its entire newsroom and made a pronounced pivot to AI-generated content, I made the argument that journalists should treat the technology as an existential … Read more
Microsoft CEO Brad Smith participates in a meeting at The Westin Palace Hotel, on 20 May, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. Cezaro De Luca | Europa Press | Getty Images Microsoft President Brad Smith met with China’s Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao on Wednesday to discuss topics ranging from artificial intelligence to trade relations between Washington … Read more
Job postings mentioning artificial intelligence are surging as the technology is booming. Gorodenkoff | Istock | Getty Images Since artificial intelligence began booming late last year, a steady stream of questions and concerns have come up. Will my job be impacted, will I be laid off, will my day-to-day change because of generative AI? There … Read more
In an unmarked workplace constructing in Austin, Texas, two small rooms include a handful of Amazon workers designing two varieties of microchips for coaching and accelerating generative AI. These customized chips, Inferentia and Trainium, supply AWS prospects a substitute for coaching their giant language fashions on Nvidia GPUs, which have been getting troublesome and costly … Read more
An AI (Synthetic Intelligence) signal is seen on the World Synthetic Intelligence Convention (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023. Aly Music | Reuters Market members are “overconfident” about their capacity to foretell the long-term results of synthetic intelligence, in accordance with Mike Coop, chief funding officer at Morningstar Funding Administration. Regardless of a pullback … Read more
Sebastien Bozon | AFP | Getty Photos Shortly after ChatGPT hit the market final yr and immediately captured headlines for its capacity to look human in answering consumer queries, digital advertising veteran Shane Rasnak started experimenting. As somebody who had constructed a profession in creating on-line advert campaigns for shoppers, Rasnak noticed how generative synthetic … Read more
Jensen Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, speaks in the course of the Computex Present in Taipei on Might 30, 2017. SAM YEH | AFP | Getty Pictures Nvidia’s highly effective semiconductors have taken on specific significance as their capability to gas synthetic intelligence has turn into more and more wanted. However their distinctive capability … Read more
French President Emmanuel Macron attended the nation’s premier expertise occasion Viva Tech. Macron instructed CNBC France will “make investments like loopy” into A.I. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Photographs PARIS — France is making a serious push to place itself as Europe’s hub for synthetic intelligence, throwing its weight behind the fast-growing and much-hyped … Read more