
DoD wants to use AI to create fake people
As if reality was not fake enough
The US Department of Defense wants technology to fabricate online personas indistinguishable from real people.

AI really does create new jobs
Positions involve spotting deep fakes created by AI
It appears that AI is starting to create work after all – working out how to spot AI deep fakes.

AI code developers work longer hours and don’t produce better code
Still think Copilot helps them
Code developers using Copilot work longer hours and produce less quality code despite thinking that AI helps.

Nvidia wants to employ 50,000 Workers
100 million AI Assistants
The leather-coated balloon waiting to burst, Nvidia's Jensen Huang wants his company to have 50,000 employees with 100 million, AI assistants.

A.I. is dumber than a cat, claims Meta man
Cat says Meta Man is dumber than AI
Meta senior researcher Yann LeCun told the Wall Street Journal that humanity has nothing to fear from A.I. and that it is “dumber than a cat.”

Adobe releases video AI model
Firefly builds video content from text prompts
Adobe has started publicly distributing an AI model to generate video from text prompts.

AI is pants, claims Apple
If we can’t invent it no one can
While Apple is unable to get a decent AI product on the market, it has decided to invest in scientific research which claims the whole thing is pants anyway.

AMD launches Instinct MI325X Accelerator for AI workloads
With 256GB HBM3E memory and 2.6 PFLOPs of FP8 compute performance
At its Advancing AI event, AMD announced its newest Instinct MI300X series accelerator, the Instinct MI325X. The new AI accelerator is based on CDNA 3 architecture, packs 153 billion transistors, comes with 256GB of HBM3E memory on 16-Hi stacks with up to 6TB/s of memory bandwidth, and offering 2.6 PFLOPs or FP8 and 1.3 PFLOPs of FP16 performance.

Software engineers have two years to upskill
Or collect their P45s and pink slips
More than 80 per cent of the software engineering workforce will need to upskill by 2027, to keep pace with the growing demands of generative AI.

Google forcing better Gemini integration in WhatsApp
Part of its cunning plan to replace Google Assistant
Search engine outfit Google is working on making its Gemini AI project more tightly integrated with WhatsApp.