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AI Act - approved. So what will change (and what won't) the first full-fledged AI Act in the EU?

Last week, the EU Parliament voted to adopt the Artificial Intelligence Act, first introduced three years ago—essentially completing the final bureaucratic hurdle, and now approaching official implementation. The law will come into force somewhere in...

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Google's search direction has been led by Liz Reid - she previously led artificial intelligence search products

Google Search has a new leader. This business is headed by Liz Reid, who has been working at Google for over 20 years. Recently, she led the search direction based on artificial intelligence, known as Search Generative Experience (SGE). Reid's promo...

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OpenAI boss Sam Altman says the world "doesn't need another copy of Google" because it's "boring"

Instead, developers should focus on creating new ways to search and analyze information for people. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he is not interested in beating Google in the search business. "I think it's boring. I mean, if the question is whether we ...

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NVIDIA has unveiled the Blackwell architecture, the B200 GPU based on it, the NVLINK 7.2T interface, and servers and supercomputers based on it.

During the GTC March 2024 Keynote, NVIDIA introduced the Blackwell chip architecture and the B200 graphics processors based on it. The new GPUs with AI capabilities will replace the H100 and H200 data processing centers. The Blackwell Blackwell GB200...

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Ilon Musk has "declassified" the source code of his chatbot Grok - no training data yet

Now developers and researchers will be able to use the architecture that Grok runs on in their own projects. xAI, an artificial intelligence company owned by Elon Musk, has released the source code of its chatbot on GitHub. The announcement states th...

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GPT-4's artificial intelligence is capable of playing Doom and does not hesitate while shooting at virtual objects shaped like humans

A Microsoft scientist and researcher at the University of York, Adrian de Winter, recently decided to test GPT-4 by running Doom without prior training. The results of this experiment led to the conclusion that GPT-4 can play Doom with a certain degr...

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Viral photo of "Hollywood Mountain" in California turned out to be a fake generated by a neural network

Possibly, you have come across the stunning photo of the "Hollywood Mountain" in California on Facebook or BlueSky, taken from a bird's eye view? It turns out that it is completely generated by artificial intelligence - moreover, such a place does no...

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Google DeepMind has created SIMA, an AI model that plays games. Why - they don't know yet.

Google DeepMind Laboratory presented SIMA - an artificial intelligence model that will play games for you. It is designed to play more like a human, rather than a superhuman artificial intelligence. SIMA, which stands for Scalable Instructable Multiw...

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Midjourney is testing a feature that will allow you to "save" a character's image to generate future images

Now users can provide the neural network with reference images of a person and adjust the generation in such a way that the appearance on the subsequent images looks the same. Midjourney is testing the Character Reference feature, which will allow ge...

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Large language models (LLMs) of artificial intelligence become "more implicitly racist" after human intervention

From the very beginning, it was clear that large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, absorb racist theses from millions of pages on the Internet where they are trained. Developers have reacted to this by trying to make them less toxic. But new r...

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Large language models (LLMs) of artificial intelligence become "more implicitly racist" after human intervention

From the very beginning, it was clear that large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, absorb racist theses from millions of pages on the Internet where they are trained. Developers responded to this by trying to make them less toxic. But new researc...

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Midjourney banned Stability AI employees after attempted data theft

At the beginning of the month, the service faced a 24-hour outage allegedly due to "botnet activity" of two accounts linked to the competitor company Stability AI. On March 2nd, Midjourney reported a prolonged outage on its Discord server, supposedly...

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OpenAI says Ilon Musk wanted to merge it with Tesla for "absolute control"

The developer of ChatGPT has rejected the claims of the billionaire outlined in the lawsuit last week. Musk claimed that OpenAI allegedly focused on making money and forgot about its primary goal of developing "artificial intelligence for the benefit...

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Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over 'AI threat'

The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI allegedly abandoned its initial mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity, instead focusing on profit. Lawyers representing Musk note that OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, and co-founder Greg Bro...

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A scientific journal has withdrawn a paper with an AI-generated illustration of a rat "with a disproportionately large genitalia"

The article that contained quirky, AI-generated images of rat genitals, obscure graphics, and captions, was retracted by the publisher, who stated that the authors of the research had violated the journal's rules. The research paper, published in th...

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