ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes

9 November 2024 at 00:53

Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of voters’ information diets, even approximate numbers are interesting to think about. For instance, OpenAI has stated that it told around 2 million users of ChatGPT to go look somewhere else. […]

Clashing approaches to combat AI’s ‘perpetual bulls**t machine’

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Devin Coldewey

30 October 2024 at 20:45

The AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 got off to a fiery but constructive start on a panel about combating disinformation. But in a spirited exchange of views tempered by expressions of respect and agreement, all three panelists had harsh words for social media and generative AI. None was harsher, though, than Imran Ahmed, CEO […]

Wonder Dynamics now lets you go straight from multi-camera video to fully animated 3D scene

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Devin Coldewey

30 October 2024 at 15:00

Wonder Dynamics made a strong opening play in AI-enhanced visual effects, providing tools animators and filmmakers actually find useful — and earning the startup a prompt acquisition by Autodesk. Their latest tool further automates the animation process, letting you put in practically any video and get a fully editable 3D scene, characters and all. The […]

Archon emerges from stealth with $20M and ‘antibody cages’ to power up drug development

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Devin Coldewey

30 October 2024 at 12:01

Archon Biosciences, a biotech startup putting AI to work designing novel biomolecules, has just emerged from stealth with an impressive $20 million in seed funding. The company aims to supercharge antibody treatments using specially designed protein “cages” that multiply their effects, opening up new opportunities in drug development. This is the first company to be […]

Haptic’s touch-based navigation helps blind and sighted alike get around without looking

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Devin Coldewey

29 October 2024 at 22:58

Smartphones and navigation apps have become second nature these days. But for those with blindness and low vision, it’s not quite so convenient. Haptic has been building a non-visual, non-verbal way of telling people where to go, and they’ve decided it’s time to scale up and take it global. Haptic presented onstage today as part […]

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