Associated Press: Research: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, and Claude had instances of promoting harmful, inaccurate, race-based content when responding to nine medical questions — As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors’ notes and analyze health records …
Read MoreAlleged censorship of social media and disruptions to electricity and internet access have meant people under fire in Gaza can’t get the information they need to survive.
Read MoreThe good thing about listening in on satellites is that they tend to beam down all kinds of juicy information from their lofty perches. The bad thing about satellites is that to stay in those orbits, they’ve got to be moving really fast, and that means that you’ve got to track them if you want
Read MoreThe 2013 Moto X, Nexus 4, and iPhone 13 Mini. I pine for the days this size was normal. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Ever Googled for “Best Small Phones”? I’ll save you the click: the guides you’ll find feature phones that are old, underpowered, or simply not small to begin with.
Read MoreAssociated Press: Research: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, and Claude had instances of promoting harmful, inaccurate, race-based content when responding to nine medical questions — As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors’ notes and analyze health records …
Read MoreThe good thing about listening in on satellites is that they tend to beam down all kinds of juicy information from their lofty perches. The bad thing about satellites is that to stay in those orbits, they’ve got to be moving really fast, and that means that you’ve got to track them if you want
Read MoreApple Watch Ultra 2 may have a new chip, but it’ll need more than that to make me upgrade from my Ultra 1.
Read MoreChris Stokel-Walker / Nature: London-based Samaya AI unveils an AI tool that suggests better Wikipedia references for citations the tool identifies as unlikely to support associated claims — – Chris Stokel-Walker 0 — Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance journalist in Newcastle, UK. — You can also search for this author in
Read MoreSanjay Gupta / The Keyword India: Google expands consumer and merchant credit features on Google Pay in India, launches new generative AI-based visual and local capabilities in Search, and more — Country Head & Vice President, Google India — With India looking at a billion connected people in the near future …
Read MoreBenj Edwards / Ars Technica: Bugs in the ChatGPT app reveal internal natural language prompts shared between DALL-E 3 and ChatGPT, including some commands written in all-caps for emphasis — Politeness and emphasis play a surprising role in AI-model communications. — Not long after OpenAI first unveiled …
Read MoreAdam Liptak / New York Times: SCOTUS pauses a ruling banning Biden administration officials from contacting social media platforms about misinformation and agrees to hear the DOJ’s appeal — The court agreed to hear the administration’s appeal, setting the stage for a major ruling on what the government may do to encourage sites to delete
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Read MoreThese days, it’s possible to buy a number of different Polaroid instant cameras new off the shelf. That’s largely thanks to the retro resurgence that has buoyed interest in everything from vinyl records to analog synthesizers. However, if you’re truly old-school, you might still be rocking a vintage Polaroid SX-70 camera. Thankfully, there’s a way
Read MoreLouise Matsakis / Semafor: Hugging Face confirms “regrettable accessibility issues in China”, after a report says the country fully blocked access to the AI model platform on September 12 — AI startup Hugging Face told Semafor it was aware of the “regrettable accessibility issues in China” …
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch will now let its creators simultaneously stream across any live streaming service, the company announced on Friday as part of a big batch of news from TwitchCon. Previously, streamers could simulcast on mobile platforms like TikTok and Instagram, but as of Friday, Twitch is significantly broadening where
Read MoreJay Peters / The Verge: Twitch now lets creators simulcast across any live streaming service, with caveats, and adds doxxing and swatting to its Off-Service Conduct enforcement list — Previously, streamers could simulcast on mobile platforms like TikTok and Instagram, but as of Friday, Twitch is significantly broadening …
Read MoreThe Intel 8088 is an interesting chip, being a variant of the more well-known 8086. Given the latter went on to lend its designation to one of the world’s favorite architectures, you can tell which of the two was higher status. Regardless, it was the 8088 that lived in the first IBM PC, and now,
Read MoreIllustration: Beatrice Sala Here’s where we’ll keep track of late-in-the-week news companies really wish you wouldn’t read. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration: Beatrice Sala Here’s where we’ll keep track of late-in-the-week news companies really wish you wouldn’t read. Continue reading…
Read MoreThese days, it’s possible to buy a number of different Polaroid instant cameras new off the shelf. That’s largely thanks to the retro resurgence that has buoyed interest in everything from vinyl records to analog synthesizers. However, if you’re truly old-school, you might still be rocking a vintage Polaroid SX-70 camera. Thankfully, there’s a way
Read MoreHow many motors have you got? | Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla’s Cybertruck is finally nearing its first delivery event on November 30th, and yet we still don’t have key details on configurations, prices, and other specifications of the unconventionally designed pickup truck. But today, we got some insight for the launch,
Read MoreImage: iFixit via YouTube We’ve already seen a teardown of the standard Pixel 8 model, but now iFixit has taken apart the $999 Pixel 8 Pro, offering a close look at the new temperature sensing tech that lives beneath the phone’s display. iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari starts by removing the Pixel 8 Pro’s screen using a
Read MoreGary Marcus / Marcus on AI: Why LLMs, which don’t induce an algorithm that computes multiplication, still don’t truly understand multiplication no matter how much data they are trained on — Some Reply Guy on X assured me yesteday that “transformers can multiply”. Even pointed me to a paper, allegedly offering proof.
Read MoreOn the heels of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the new Mario game sets up Nintendo’s future as more than a video game company.
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