Collaborate Disseminate
A new study from researchers at University College London examined 83,000 healthy 50 to 70 year olds who had taken a 15-second ECG “comparable to the kind carried out using smart watches and phone devices.” People whose readings exhibited an extra beat… Continue reading More evidence that smartwatches can detect and predict heart issues
In an interview with Daniel Hambury at London’s Evening Standard newspaper, Wales chews over some of the issues inherent with the technology – particularly its tendency to “hallucinate,” or flat-out make things up – but points out that “using AI to tri… Continue reading Jimmy Wales is considering using GPT to write Wikipedia
Even if the unlikely six-month moratorium on AI development goes ahead, it seems GPT-4 has the capability for huge leaps forward if it just takes a good hard look at itself. Researchers have had GPT critique its own work for a 30% performance boost.Con… Continue reading GPT-4 becomes 30% more accurate when asked to critique itself
While the history of these things gets pretty murky, most folk seem to agree on a few things about gold foils: firstly, they hit the market around the middle of the 20th century, embedded in cheap guitars from Harmony and Teisco. Secondly, they’ve got … Continue reading Foiled again: We’ve been playing Fender’s new gold-foil Telecaster
A new creative AI system called ModelScope is now pumping out short videos in response to text prompts. The early results are wonderfully bizarre and thoroughly memeworthy – but it’s immediately clear how immensely powerful these tools will become.Cont… Continue reading The beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs
This is not the first time humanity has stared down the possibility of extinction due to its technological creations. But the threat of AI is very different from the nuclear weapons we’ve learned to live with. Nukes can’t think. They can’t lie, deceive… Continue reading The case for how and why AI might kill us all
ChatGPT showed the world that conversational AIs are ready for prime time, and capable of performing and chatting in character. It was only a matter of time before this kind of intelligence came to video game NPCs (non-player characters) – and yet I’m … Continue reading You can now talk to video game NPCs, and frankly it’s incredible
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a slow, buggy, boring-looking chat bot that frequently makes things up and cuts off in the middle of answers. But it communicates as well or better than most humans, and writes code as well. It does both in a range of languages, sho… Continue reading Which jobs will AI hit hardest, and which will stay safe the longest?
In a few short months, ChatGPT has convinced a lot of people – particularly the ones closest to it – that we’re standing at the inflection point of the most significant technological leap humanity has ever made. Fire, the wheel, science, money, electri… Continue reading Sam Altman asks: Should OpenAI let ChatGPT-4 off the leash?
Remington Scott’s CV in Hollywood movies is extraordinary, placing him at the bleeding edge of motion capture in some of the most transformative projects in movie history. He supervised and directed motion capture for Gollum/Smeagol in Peter Jackson’s … Continue reading Interview: Hyperreal is working on digital celebrities you can talk to