News and explainers about artificial intelligence, machine learning, humanoid robots, automation, and the real-world impact of rapidly developing AI systems.
A man and his digital copy Most debate about AI focuses on jobs, especially the idea that copywriters, accountants and call-centre operators are about to be replaced. Some of the...
Google has opened its SynthID Detector to the public. Anyone can now upload an image, video or audio file and check it for an invisible watermark that some AI generators...
ChatGPT has no hidden slash commands, but short cues typed at the start of a message, such as /truth, /devil or /nofluff, can still change how it answers. According to...
If ChatGPT keeps changing your face when it places you in a new scene, the author of the original article suggests starting the prompt with /face preserve. This is not...
A Reddit user says they connected a digital simulation of a fruit fly (Drosophila) brain to the card game Balatro and, after reward-and-penalty training, got it to win roughly 20%...
Souchastnik (Russian for “Accomplice”) is an open-source Android keyboard that runs a small AI model entirely on the phone and warns Russian users, before they hit send, when a message...
Russia is undertaking a large-scale effort to digitize vast archives of Soviet scientific and technical documentation — accumulated over decades and never before available in digital form — with the...
This question pops up in the comments with enviable regularity: build a neural network setup on a Mac or rent a machine with a GPU? Some insist that Apple Silicon...
A year ago, any conversation about a smart Siri only brought a sad smirk, but now the voice assistant can finally do what it was designed for. Apple released a...
The State Duma has passed an AI regulation law in its third reading. The document introduces the very concept of AI into Russian law for the first time and requires...
