In 2022, Jason Allen won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition with an AI-generated work of art using Midjourney, a generative AI system trained on art collected from the internet. However, the use of AI to win the art competition triggered a heated backlash online, with many questions raised about ownership and authorship. As generative
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Google has unveiled its new virtual try-on feature for clothes shopping on Search, making it easier for shoppers to buy clothes online. The feature uses generative AI to create highly detailed portrayals of clothing on real models, with different body shapes and sizes. Unlike many other virtual try-on tools in the market, Google’s new method
In today’s world, intelligent systems and applications have become an integral part of our daily lives. These systems require human-computer interaction technology to function efficiently. This technology enables intelligent hardware to gather physiological and behavioral information from humans and use it to accomplish specific tasks, leading to increased convenience and efficiency in society. The significance
Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the US with over 200 daily outlets, plans to integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) into its publishing system. This move is part of a wider trend in news organizations that are using AI technologies to save money and increase efficiency. However, unlike some other news outlets, Gannett will include
Four days after the blackout protest, Reddit has announced that most of its communities are back to their normal operations. According to the company, 80 percent of its top subreddits are now open. This announcement comes after thousands of online forums shut down in protest over Reddit’s decision to raise its fees. The website Reddark,
Thierry Breton, EU commissioner for internal market, has called for more EU member states to ban Chinese telecommunications firms Huawei and ZTE from their 5G networks due to national security risks. Breton urged countries to remove “high-risk” suppliers from their mobile internet infrastructure upgrades and emphasized the importance of speeding up decisions in his speech
Microsoft shares have soared to an all-time high of $348.10, following analysts at JPMorgan Chase touting the software maker’s growth prospects in artificial intelligence (AI). The stock rose by 3.2%, topping its prior all-time high reached in November 2021, the same month the Nasdaq peaked. The Federal Reserve’s announcement on Wednesday that it would hold
Refuel AI, a company that aims to revolutionize the way enterprises create high-quality datasets for AI models, has raised $5.2 million in seed funding. The company uses large language models (LLMs) to automate the creation and labeling of datasets for every business and use case. Refuel AI plans to use the funding to expand its
Meta has released the first version of I-JEPA, a machine learning model that learns abstract representations of the world through self-supervised learning on images. The model requires little to no human intervention and performs strongly on computer vision tasks, making it much more efficient than other state-of-the-art models that require more computing resources for training.
California has been experiencing an increase in wildfires due to climate change, with record occurrences in areas that were not historically prone to them. The fires have cost billions and taken lives. For the 46 million Americans living next to forests, known as the “wildland-urban interface” (WUI), the risks of wildfire can be especially acute.