Category: Shorts

AiScout: The Soccer Scouting Platform AiSCOUT gives a second chance to young English soccer players by giving them a second chance at the top of the English soccer pyramid. Players perform athletic drills on the app, then are rated via an AI scoring system built by data specialists and scouts from the game. In a…

AI Won’t Wipe Out Humanity – Yet Lauren Goode: That came from the Center for AI Safety, which is a nonprofit. It was signed by leading figures in the development of AI. There’s definitely been this moment where some people, who weren’t remotely worried about existential risk at all, have had this realization. That’s one…

Minecraft GPT-4 AI Potential The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. The language model generates objectives that help the agent explore the game, and code that improves the bot’s skill at the game over time. The most novel part of the project is the code that GPT-4…

The biggest announcements from Meta’s Quest Gaming Showcase Meta has just wrapped its latest Quest Gaming Showcase, which consisted of a bunch of virtual reality games coming to its Quest headsets. Among them are: Stranger Things VR, which will let you play as Vecna the evil character from Stranger Things season 4;Powerwash Simulator, a game…

Editors need to learn how to edit AI boosters Kody Young’s Mona Lisa is basically a fanfic with an AI in it, and the narrator sees it as like a sponge, filling in the places its creator chooses to leave out. He thinks it’s possible to make interesting AI art , but the creators have…

Meta announces Quest 3 VR headset, priced at $499.99 Meta has officially announced its Quest 3 VR headset. It will be available in the fall for $499.99 plus an additional storage option for those who want more space at an unspecified price. That undoes last year’s price hike on the base model and makes the…

The AI revolution is about to take over your browsing experience The narrator believes that browsers will be going to be an important place for AI tools in part just because they’re so popular.” This is all easier said than done, though. You can highlight a name or a phrase, right-click, and select “ask Airis”…

Ring, Amazon’s home security company, agrees to pay $5.8 million to Amazon’s Ring unit has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that its doorbells illegally spy on users. The FTC alleged that Ring failed to restrict employees and contractors from accessing customer videos and used those videos to train algorithms…

Apple might announce several new Macs at WWDC At next week’s conference, Apple will unveil several new Macs, including a redesigned 13-inch Air and a Mac Pro with Apple silicon. Apple may also introduce the world’s largest Mac, the MacBook Pro, and other exciting new features, according to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. More…

PyPI enforces two-factor authentication for project owners The Python Package Index (PyPI) announced last week that all accounts that maintain projects on the official third-party software repository will require to turn on two-factor authentication by the end of the year. This comes nearly a year after PyPI made 2FA mandatory for critical project maintainers. Deception…