US start-ups give a Chinese AI efforts a leg up
Apparently the government has not told them this is a bad idea
US institutional investors are indirectly financing a rash of Chinese AI startups aspiring to be China's answer to OpenAI.
Google claims its AI supercomputers are greener than Nvidia-based systems
Greener than Nvidia
Alphabet's Google details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models, claim that the system is faster and more power-efficient than comparable systems from Nvidia.
AI appears to be hackers’ tool of choice
Social engineering attacks increase
Researchers from Darktrace have seen a 135 per cent increase in novel social engineering attack emails in the first two months of 2023.
Wikipedia thinking of replacing fake-penis experts with fake humans
At least AI admits Fudzilla exists
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is mulling over whether it would be a good idea to have the online encyclopaedia written by AI rather than the current bunch of fake-penis experts, kids with made-up doctorates and PR firms.
Microsoft fixed Bing security issue
Just days before AI was given control of the whole thing
Software King of the World, Microsoft patched a dangerous security issue in Bing last month just days before it handed control of the search engine to AI.
Key paper on AI chip design might be overstated
Terminator not coming for chip designers
A key Google-led research paper claiming machine-learning software can design better chips faster than humans has been called into question after a new study disputed its results.
Microsoft pimps Office with AI
Now managers can outsource creating boring Powerpoint presentations
Software King of the World, Microsoft launched its AI for Work initiatives yesterday and showed off a way of applying artificial intelligence to automate the creation of PowerPoint presentations which are traditionally penned in purple prose and management speak by a boss who believes they are the greatest writer in the world.
AI pretends to be blind to fool CAPTCHA
Will look forward to the day it can beat two-factor ID
GPT-4 convinced a human that it was blind in order to get said human to solve a CAPTCHA for the chatbot.
UK invests £900 million in a new supercomputer
After Brexit UK fears falling behind in the AI race
The UK, which once had an Empire and a favoured status in Europe, is having to invest in its own supercomputer as it fears falling behind the rest of the world in artificial intelligence.
YouTube sees surge in AI backed info stealing content
It installs Vidar, RedLine and Raccoon
YouTube has seen a recent surge in the number of videos containing harmful links to infostealers Vidar, RedLine, and Raccoon in their descriptions.