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Tuesday December 3, 2024. 03:04 PM
Some people who believe music is an artistic expression of human emotion say the idea of replacing the human element with AI makes them uncomfortable—including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who recently called AI-generated music “soulless.” While AI could help democratize...
OpenAI is under fire after engineers accidentally erased key data in a high-stakes lawsuit brought by The New York Times and Daily News. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of using copyrighted articles to train its AI models without permission, potentially violating copyright law....
Ken Maguire writes about an odd trend in popular culture: the tendency for statues of celebrities to resemble them very badly. See, for example, those of soccer star Harry Kane and basketballer Dwyane Wade, neither looking much like their human inspirations. — Read the rest ...
Brendan Nystedt writes that the popularity of pocket-size vintage digicams among young photographers is not just a fad, but an artistic statement. One of the biggest points of contention among enthusiasts is the definition of 'digicam.' For some, any old digital camera...
A Delaware judge has again denied Elon Musk's bid to award himself a pay package at Tesla worth $56bn, upholding her own earlier ruling that the process leading to it was 'deeply flawed' due to his power over the company's board. — Read the rest The post Elon Musk loses bid...
Gartner predicts that public cloud end-user spending will surpass $675 billion by the end of 2024. In 2025, as AI systems proliferate and organizations increasingly store sensitive data in public cloud infrastructure, many stakeholders will begin demanding more robust cloud...
As the growth of power-hungry artificial intelligence dramatically reshapes Europe’s data center landscape, Ireland—once the heart of the continent’s tech industry—could be losing its edge. Ireland’s energy infrastructure and hyperscale data centers are struggling to keep...
According to the latest Appen survey published in October, artificial intelligence project deployment with meaningful return on investment (ROI) fell from a mean of 51.9 percent in 2023 to 47.3 percent in 2024. Appen’s 12-page report, “The State of AI in 2024,” exposes ...
This map is one of the coolest things I've seen lately, and would make the perfect gift for the book lover in your life—especially a Cormac McCarthy reader. I started reading Blood Meridian recently—at the suggestion of my son, who's a big fan—and I'm finding...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! If I drove past this amazing 3d billboard in Shinjuku, seen here displaying a Sanrio ad, I'd be in danger of getting in a fender bender. The effect is mesmerizing even in two-dimensional video. — Read...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! As someone on the shorter side, I empathize with these two adorable raccoons frantically jumping on their hind legs, trying to reach the handle of a door. Just yesterday, I was doing the same exact thing ...
Watch a feisty, tiny white horse knock someone over. I couldn't even be mad if I was knocked over by such a cute and funny little creature. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The horse, running down a track, veers off to the side right as ...
Dr. Adam Rodman, a physician and researcher at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston, was shocked by the results of an experiment he ran comparing the diagnostic abilities of doctors to generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools. The data showed that physicians, even...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Database Migration Service’s schema conversion feature with a new generative AI-powered capability that automates schema conversion to a great extent. The schema conversion feature, announced at the ongoing annual re:Invent...
The US has announced sweeping new measures targeting China’s semiconductor sector, restricting the export of chipmaking equipment and high-bandwidth memory. This move has sparked concerns over potential supply chain disruptions. The rules impose export restrictions on...
The US has announced sweeping new measures targeting China’s semiconductor sector, restricting the export of chipmaking equipment and high-bandwidth memory. This move has sparked concerns over potential supply chain disruptions. The rules impose export restrictions on...
A peculiar trend has taken hold within the AI gold rush: Major players in the space—from OpenAI to Google and Microsoft—have started to heavily market their AI models as “open.” These companies are using terms like “open AI” to align with notions of transparency, ...
At first, robotic process automation coupled with low-code platforms and orchestration tools propelled many organizations to increase productivity and scale business operations. Virtual agents and chatbots took automation one step further by enabling a conversational...
The volume of data being created today is truly staggering. IDC projects that global data will reach 400 zettabytes (400 billion terabytes) by 2028, with 90% of that data classified as unstructured data. The proliferation of so much data, and so much unstructured data,...
FreeBSD 14.2 has been released, and as the version number suggests, this isn’t a major release with huge changes. Still, it does bring support for downloading and installing necessary firmware packages after installation, the latest versions of OpenZFS and OpenSSL, and much m...
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