19 April 2024 Mariko OiBusiness reporter Getty Images When it comes to food, the Japanese take attention to detail very seriously A shrinking population means Japan has a shortage of workers. Many are

I keep a bullet journal. I'm not one of those people you see on Pinterest with the fancy spreads – I mostly just use black ink, the standard setup, and the occasional custom collection. Every time I join a new team, I go to the next fresh page, and on top of that page I write: "WTF - [Team Name]."…

Cybersecurity professionals are increasingly prepared to moonlight as cybercriminals in a bid to top up their salaries, according to new research from the Chartered Institute of Information Security (

Security researchers have uncovered a "credible" takeover attempt targeting the OpenJS Foundation in a manner that evokes similarities to the recently uncovered incident aimed at the open-source XZ Ut

Sounds of the natural world are rapidly falling silent and will become “acoustic fossils” without urgent action to halt environmental destruction, international experts have warned. As technology deve

The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, cautioned on Tuesday that persistently elevated inflation will probably delay any Fed interest rate cuts until later this year, opening the door to a period o

Artificial intelligence tools can replace much of Wall Street’s entry-level white-collar work, raising tough questions about the future of finance. Credit...Calum Heath By Rob Copeland spoke to execut

April 14, 2024 I’ve been thinking about art and punishment. That is, how we punish people for making art. There’s the more nuanced form, where we project our own insecurities onto a work. It’s not queer enough, it’s too dark, too much sex, unlikeable characters, etc. But I’m thinking about the…

The conventional wisdom, well captured recently by Ethan Mollick, is that LLMs are advancing exponentially. A few days ago, in a popular blog post, Mollick claimed that “the current best estimates of

20 March 2023 – Baldur Bjarnason It’s like the past few years’ discussions on bias in training data and issues with shortcut learning in AI models just didn’t happen at all? Like, our industry didn’t

For the past year or so I’ve been spending most of my time researching the use of language and diffusion models in software businesses. One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed

Ever since I was a kid I was never good at doing schoolwork. I had envied everyone that seemed to complete things so effortlessly and even took pleasure in the work that they were doing. I'd decided that, in order to become a successful student, I would have to force myself to do things I didn't…

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Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2404.03502 (cs) [Submitted on 4 Apr 2024 (v1), last revised 22 Apr 2024 (this version, v2)] Authors: View a PDF of the paper titled AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse, by Andrew J. Peterson View PDF Abstract:While artificial intelligence has the…

Rose Gardner did everything right. Straight As at school and college, a first-class degree from a top university, a master’s. She got a job in publishing and rose through the ranks of some of the industry’s most prestigious companies before getting a job with a media organisation. Eventually, she…

Nicholas LoVecchio told me he knew something was wrong as soon as he received the peer-review responses to his paper about “taboo” language titled “Using translation to chart the early spread of GAY t

Health TechIn a demo video, a “GenAI Healthcare Agent” named Rachel conducts a post-appendectomy follow-up and asks case-specific questions in real time. NVIDIA March 22, 2024 • less than 3 min read If you love Black Mirror, you’re probably gonna hate this: King chipmaker Nvidia announced this week…

Official render of Nvidia ChatRTX, previously dubbed Chat with RTX (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia's ChatRTX AI chatbot, previously known as Chat with RTX, has been revealed to have been vulnerable to severe security vulnerabilities in ChatRTX 0.2 and all prior versions. Fortunately, the latest…

Abstract SARS-CoV-2 may cause acute respiratory disease, but the infection can also initiate neurological symptoms. Here we show that SARS-CoV-2 infection causes brain inflammation in the macaque mode

I’m going to divulge something rather embarrassing: earlier this year I got sucked deep into the “Hubersphere”, the cult-like following of Andrew Huberman, the controversial neuroscientist and podcaster who is the subject of a viral New York Magazine article that came out this week. Huberman has…

Abstract The pathophysiology underlying the post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 remains understudied and poorly understood, particularly in healthy adults with a history of mild infection. Chronic neuroin

A person in Texas has been diagnosed with bird flu, an infection tied to the recent discovery of the virus in dairy cows, health officials said on Monday. The patient is being treated with an antivira

A smartphone app could help detect a leading cause of early-onset dementia in people who are at high risk of developing it, data suggests. Scientists have demonstrated that cognitive tests done via a smartphone app are at least as sensitive at detecting early signs of frontotemporal dementia in…

Thousands of schools in the Philippines have stopped in-person classes due to unbearable heat. In Indonesia, prolonged dry weather has caused rice prices to soar. In Thailand’s waters, temperatures ar

Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under sc

Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images) Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president o

A new Washington’s Lottery AI mobile site turned a user’s photo into softcore pornography, forcing them to take the website down “out of an abundance of caution.” When Megan, a 50-year-old mother base

In March 2020, at the height of uncertainty at the outset of the pandemic, I wrote about what it took to get to the roaring 1920s. This chart sums it up nicely: Here’s what I wrote at the time: How ma

Every conversation about artificial intelligence nowadays seemingly ends with a warning to balance innovation with responsible governance. One might even say with great computing power comes great res

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images All US federal agencies will now be required to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use, as the government wants to ensure that AI

The Biden administration is calling on federal agencies to step up their use of artificial intelligence tools, but in a way that keeps the risk of misuse in check. The Office of Management and Budget

I. The Bumper The trip to Delaware was only supposed to last a day. David Pokora, a bespectacled University of Toronto senior with scraggly blond hair down to his shoulders, needed to travel south to fetch a bumper that he’d bought for his souped-up Volks­wagen Golf R. The American seller had balked…

It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are dragging on. The industry has shed more jobs in a shorter period than any time since the dot-com bust ove

In October last year, Francesca Mani came home from school in the suburbs of New Jersey with devastating news for her mother, Dorota. Earlier in the day the 14-year-old had been called into the vice-p

“I was devastated, but life goes on and I feel fortunate for where I work now,” said Kiew, who never met Musk but witnessed him famously carrying a kitchen sink through Twitter’s San Francisco headqua

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