The Sony World Photography Awards is the leading international photo contest. The contest has four competition levels (Pro, Open, Student, and Youth). Each competition level is free to enter and the top prize is $25,000. Boris Eldagsen was (is?) this year’s top winner in the Creative Open category showing a photo depicting two women stylized...
Just as YoungGuru started warning music consumers the danger AI poses to their favorite music artists, a script kiddie named @ghostwriter877 goes viral with a generated Drake and TheWeeknd track. What Had Happened Was Last weekend, Drake took to the Gram and proclaimed, “this is the final straw, AI!” He was upset a song used...
Kuwait News, an affiliate of the Kuwait Times, introduced the world to Fedha, an AI news anchor who speaks fluent Arabic and wants to know the kind of news you’re interested in. أول مذيعة في #الكويت تعمل بالذكاء الاصطناعي • #فضة.. مذيعة #كويت_نيوز الافتراضية • ما هي نوعية الأخبار التي تفضلونها بتقديم #فضة زميلتنا الجديدة؟...
Large language models like GPT-4 still need humans to tell it the kind of content it’s being trained on. This process is called labeling. Human beings read content, and give it labels like news article, medical report, jokes, etc. These labels give GPT-4 the ability to understand the type of text someone like you prompts...
The FBI’s Denver Field office tweeted a warning to travelers encouraging them to avoid public smartphone charging ports. Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels or shopping centers. Bad actors have figured out ways to use public USB ports to introduce malware and monitoring software onto devices. Carry your own charger and USB cord...
I know theSync’s head honcho, Will Mapp, is a big booster of AI technology, but Elon Musk might be right for once. I’m no luddite, but AI-abuse could lead to a breakdown in society. Only because humans are lazy and are quick to accept shortcuts. We already accept things the computer says as final without...
In one of the most stunning turns of events, the Electronic Entertainment Expo; E, won’t return for 2023. E3 hasn’t held an in-person event since the pandemic. E3 was supposed to be, ‘full speed ahead’, as recently as February. Nintendo, Microsoft, and UbiSoft have all stated they won’t be participating this year and that simply...
That’s the headline. It’s been a wild week after Elon Musk and other tech figureheads asked for a pause on AI innovation, and we reported on Young Guru raising the alarm on audio deepfakes. This week, the Italian Data Privacy and Security regulator has banned ChatGPT from use in its country. Italy’s regulator says it...
Days after Elon Musk completed his latest layoff spree; Twitter, asked online source code host GitHub to remove the Twitter’s source code from its servers. What Is GitHub? GitHub.com is an online service used to share software source code between different software developers. GitHub is used by companies, open source organizations, and individuals to share...
A really great article on Ars Technica highlights the struggle AI assistants like Alexa and Siri are having making money. Amazon is expected to lose an eye popping $10 billion from last year’s purchases of Amazon Alexa and other devices. $3 billion of that is tied to Alexa Assistants Struggle to Make Money Since 2014,...