Being able to detect lowest form of wit could help AI interact with people more naturally, say scientists Never mind that it can pass the bar exam, ace medical tests and read bedtime stories with emotion, artificial intelligence will never match the marvel of the human mind without first mastering the art of sarcasm. But …
OpenAI’s updated chatbot GPT-4o is weirdly flirtatious, coquettish and sounds like Scarlett Johansson in Her. Why? “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Arthur C Clarke famously said. And this could certainly be said of the impressive OpenAI update to ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, which was released on Monday. With the slight caveat that it …
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Exclusive: Paul Raffile held webinar where he said app failed to protect children, and his offer was rescinded hours later Meta revoked a job offer to a prominent cyber-intelligence analyst immediately after he criticized Instagram for failing to protect children online. Paul Raffile had been offered a job as a human exploitation investigator focusing on …
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Platforms including Instagram and WhatsApp may have addictive effects, says European Commission The European Commission has begun an investigation into the owner of Facebook and Instagram over concerns that the platforms are creating addictive behaviour among children and damaging mental health. The EU executive said Meta may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA), a …
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Annapurna Interactive; PC, SwitchThis compulsive atavistic mystery is told through bewildering yet tantalising non-linear narrative strands that the player must tease apart It is both a pleasure and a relief to discover that while the titans of the mainstream games industry are tearing themselves apart in their unquenchable thirst for shareholder value, there are still …
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How can one broom tear apart a Canadian curling community? John Cullen investigates in Broomgate. Plus: five of the best post-apocalyptic podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here BroomgateWidely available, episodes weeklyNever before has a broom been responsible for so much scandal – in 2015, the Canadian curling community …
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Court order compels Google subsidiary to block local access to 32 videos of Glory to Hong Kong, judged to be prohibited content Alphabet’s YouTube on Tuesday said it would comply with a court decision and block access inside Hong Kong to 32 video links deemed prohibited content, in what critics say is a blow to …
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Cannes film festivalFirst-time actor Agathe Riedinger is a wannabe influencer from the wrong side of the tracks in this forthright and fluent film Feature first-timer Agathe Riedinger is bringing the TikTok energy for this story of a wannabe Insta influencer-princess from the wrong side of the tracks – but the director is also bringing some …
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Almost all children have them by the time they are 11 years old – and some get them at four. But are they ruining childhoods? Blake Montgomery reports This episode was first played on our global news podcast, Today in Focus. Conversations around if and when children should be given mobile phones have being going …
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Ilya Sutskever helped orchestrate dramatic firing and rehiring of ChatGPT maker’s CEO last year OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is leaving the startup at the center of today’s artificial intelligence boom. “After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI,” Sutskever said in a post on X. Continue reading… Ilya …
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