Thursday, December 05, 2024

Nukes For FB

"Meta turns to nuclear energy for its AI ambitions"

Fatal Names For AI

"Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why"

Robots With Facial Expressions

"Honda's 12-inch robot talks to people with facial expressions, speeds up tasks by 900%". (Via H.R.)

Monday, December 02, 2024

Fano And Huffman

A fun historical tidbit on information theory.

More information on Huffman's breakthrough here.


Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Holiday Hiatus

Admin note: Geekpress will take a short holiday break because of the US Thanksgiving Holiday. See you all next week!

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Deep Learning Origins

"How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom". (Via H.R.)

Government AI Initiative

"US government commission pushes Manhattan Project-style AI initiative"

Friday, November 22, 2024

AI Agents

"Move over chatbots, AI agents are the next big thing. What are they?"

The new AI agents include the Interpreter agent that allows for real-time interpretation in up to nine languages in Microsoft Teams meetings. The Interpreter agent, which will be in preview early next year, gives meeting participants the ability to speak and listen to meetings in the language of their choice. The agent can also simulate a participant's voice.

Robot Jailbreak

IEEE: "It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots"

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Musk On AI

Elon Musk predicts upcoming AI developments, per @amitisinvesting on Twitter/X:


 

Long Chile

"Chile: The Ridiculously Long Country with Unique Geography and Natural Beauty"

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Crypto-Friendly Government

Cryptocurrency supporters and traders will have a much friendlier administration to deal with in a couple of months. Per the WSJ, "Exclusive: Trump to Meet Privately With Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong"

School Deepfake Scandal

"Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school"

An AI-generated nude photo scandal has shut down a Pennsylvania private school. On Monday, classes were canceled after parents forced leaders to either resign or face a lawsuit potentially seeking criminal penalties and accusing the school of skipping mandatory reporting of the harmful images.