Category: Shorts

How Memory Ends and Generative AI Begins In late March, an artificial intelligence startup called Runway hosted what it said was the first ever AI film festival at the Alamo Drafthouse theater in San Francisco. The startup, known for its Stable Diffusion, is best known for cocreating Stable diffusion, the standout text-to-image AI tool that…

How to Regulate AI: Everyone Wants to, but No One Can Agree In October 2022, just a month before the scheduled release of ChatGPT, the Trump administration issued a paper called the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. This document lays out in detail what AI regulation might look like and what kinds of…

The FDA will apparently let Elon Musk put a computer in a human brain to help treat Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink gets FDA approval to launch its first human clinical study. This means actual humans could soon be getting implants in their heads. The company previously received approval for a European trial in…

Negative Prompts and Stable Diffusion for unveiling image potential This paper describes a new type of artificial intelligence algorithm called Perp-Neg. It uses the geometry of the score space to address the shortcomings of the current negative prompts algorithm. The name comes from the concept of using the perpendicular score estimated by the denoiser for…

Elon Musk’s Twitter Space Fiasco Costs Ron DeSantis the Election The DeSantis campaign formally files for the 2024 presidential race Wednesday afternoon, teeing up an increasingly crowded GOP primary election currently led by former President Donald Trump. Florida Governor Ron DeSantam announced his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday in a Twitter Space with Elon Musk.…

Delta is the third installment in the Metal Gear Solid series, not the third installment in A new Metal Gear Solid 3 remake is coming out, and it has a weird logo. Konami describes it as Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater. Until now, we’ve assumed that the symbol on the game’s front was a triangle,…

An Android app that was listed on Google Play almost a year ago started secretly recording users An Android recording app called iRecorder Screen Recorder turned evil nearly a year after its release. The whole thing is documented in a blog post from Essential Security against Evolving Threats (ESET) researcher Lukas Stefanko. In the post,…

Sam Altman’s World Tour Hopes to Reassure AI Doomers Hundreds of students and admirers of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT have gathered to watch Sam Altman speak at the opening of his UK leg of his world tour. Altman seems unconcerned about the protests outside, but he does admit to concerns over how generative AI could be…

A Google AI language model is now making descriptions for YouTube Shorts This week, DeepMind officially combined its artificial intelligence team into one big AI team, and on Wednesday, the new Google DeepMind shared details on how one of its visual language models, Flamingo, is being used to generate descriptions for YouTube shorts. Shorts are…

Israeli Logistics Industry Targeted by Iranian Tortoiseshell Hackers At least eight websites, including those of shipping companies, were targeted by an Iranian threat actor known as Tortoiseshell. The company believes the malware to be originating from an Indian watering hole. This is not the first time Iranian activity clusters have set their sights on the…