Expect more "AI" functions on phones next year
Flagship features to midrange devices
Next year should see Qualcomm’s next generation of mobile processors help bring flagship features to more midrange devices.
Smarter appliances could save world from Russia
At least if you believe the Daily Mail
With its favourite political party in trouble over rising power bills, the Daily Wail, has followed the party line in suggesting that poor people would have no power problems if they bought smarter appliances.
AI used to monitor cat poo
Ironically uses a Rasberry Pi
A woman created an artificially intelligent (AI) infrared camera using a Rasberry Pi to monitor her cat’s poop after she discovered it was eating plastic.
Nvidia told it can't export AI chips to China
We don't want them cleverer than us
US officials have told Nvidia to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China.
OBS Studio gets Nvidia's AI powered virtual background
Does not need a green screen
OBS Studio is getting an AI-powered virtual backgrounds from Nvidia Broadcast that allow you to change your virtual environment without using a green screen.
Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics create AI Institute
Smart robots only a matter of time
Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics recently announced the launch of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute and according to Marc Raibert who will run it, it will create "future generations of advanced robots and the world’s smartest and most capable intelligent machines.”
Google's AI insists against all evidence that bloke is paedophile
Refuses his appeal
Google's AI appears to have gotten a bit out of control after it closed a man's account insisting he was a paedophile.
Wikipedia could replace editors with AI
A simple one should do it
Working with the Wikimedia Foundation, Meta AI has developed what it claims is the first machine learning model able to automatically scan hundreds of thousands of citations at once to check if they support the corresponding claims.
Two NHS hospitals lose millions over AI start-up crash
Sensyne Health delisted
Two NHS hospitals in the UK have lost nearly $18 million after an AI startup they poured cash into delisted from the AIM sharemarket.
Meta's AI starts spewing fake news
Blenderbot 3 insists that Donald Trump is president and will remain so after 2024
Last week we reported how Facebook's new Blenderbot 3 AI was sexist and racist, but now it has turned into a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist with the intelligence of plankton.