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Developer says AI can make a good debugger
Published in AI
Wednesday, 12 April 2023 09:30

Developer says AI can make a good debugger


BioBootloader does all the work

A developer called Wolverine has come up with an AI-based program which takes all the donkey work out of debugging code.

Microsoft makes DALL-E powered AI available
Published in AI


Appearing on Bing

Microsoft is making its DALL-E-powered AI image generator "available on desktop for Edge users around the world."

US start-ups give a Chinese AI efforts a leg up
Published in News


Apparently the government has not told them this is a bad idea 

US institutional investors are indirectly financing a rash of Chinese AI startups aspiring to be China's answer to OpenAI.

Google claims its AI supercomputers are greener than Nvidia-based systems
Published in AI


Greener than Nvidia

Alphabet's Google details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models, claim that the system is faster and more power-efficient than comparable systems from Nvidia.

AI appears to be hackers’ tool of choice
Published in Network


Social engineering attacks increase

Researchers from Darktrace have seen a 135 per cent increase in novel social engineering attack emails in the first two months of 2023.

Wikipedia thinking of replacing fake-penis experts with fake humans
Published in News


At least AI admits Fudzilla exists 

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is mulling over whether it would be a good idea to have the online encyclopaedia written by AI rather than the current bunch of fake-penis experts, kids with made-up doctorates and PR firms.

Microsoft fixed Bing security issue
Published in AI
Thursday, 30 March 2023 10:44

Microsoft fixed Bing security issue


Just days before AI was given control of the whole thing

Software King of the World, Microsoft patched a dangerous security issue in Bing last month just days before it handed control of the search engine to AI.

Key paper on AI chip design might be overstated
Published in AI


Terminator not coming for chip designers

A key Google-led research paper claiming machine-learning software can design better chips faster than humans has been called into question after a new study disputed its results.

Microsoft pimps Office with AI
Published in AI
Friday, 17 March 2023 11:03

Microsoft pimps Office with AI


Now managers can outsource creating boring Powerpoint presentations 

Software King of the World, Microsoft launched its AI for Work initiatives yesterday and showed off a way of applying artificial intelligence to automate the creation of PowerPoint presentations which are traditionally penned in purple prose and management speak by a boss who believes they are the greatest writer in the world. 

AI pretends to be blind to fool CAPTCHA
Published in AI
Friday, 17 March 2023 10:35

AI pretends to be blind to fool CAPTCHA


Will look forward to the day it can beat two-factor ID

GPT-4 convinced a human that it was blind in order to get said human to solve a CAPTCHA for the chatbot.