Artificial intelligence is already advancing at a worrying pace. What if we don’t slam on the brakes? Experts explain what keeps them up at night Five ways AI could improve the world Artificial intelligence has progressed so rapidly in recent months that leading researchers have signed an open letter urging an immediate pause in its …
Meta has been struggling with layoffs, a fledgling metaverse and a decreasing audience. The company needs its new big bet to pay off Meta has launched a “Twitter killer” app, a nearly direct copy of the microblogging platform that was built to lure users away from the increasingly-dysfunctional Elon Musk-owned company. But will it bring …
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The annual Crap Games Competition has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years. It all began with an April fool’s joke in a magazine called Your Sinclair … Retro video games have never been more popular, mostly because gamers have never been older. The home-computer generation of players are now in their …
In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a lawyer for the Elon Musk-owned app reportedly said Meta had unlawfully misappropriated trade secrets Twitter has threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads app, the news outlet Semafor reported on Thursday. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg published by Semafor, a lawyer for Twitter said …
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Sapiens author tells Geneva summit proliferation of fake people on social media could lead to collapse in democracy The creators of AI bots that masquerade as people should face harsh criminal sentences comparable to those who trade in counterfeit currency, the Israeli historian and author Yuval Noah Harari has said. He also called for sanctions, …
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Site has potential to suck the remaining life – and advertising revenue – out of Musk’s struggling network Imagine a social network where users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves that it is impossible to imagine them leaving. Moving to a new site would be an enormous risk for …
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Meta founder says rival platform will ‘focus on kindness’ as it claims 10 million users hours after launch Mark Zuckerberg took a swipe at Elon Musk’s Twitter on Thursday as his competitor to the platform, Threads, announced 10 million sign-ups within hours of its launch. The chief executive and founder of Meta used his new …
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Meta’s newest app can be accessed with an Instagram account and looks a lot like its rival We tried Threads, Meta’s new Twitter rival. Here’s what happened Five million people signed up for Threads, Meta’s answer to Twitter, in the four hours after its launch on Thursday, according to boss Mark Zuckerberg. What can we …
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Ai-da, Desdemona, Nadine and Geminoid join world’s largest gathering of humanoids to promote AI as force for good Grace is a nursing assistant, Ai-da a contemporary artist, Desdemona a purple-haired rock singer and Nadine is on hand for companionship and conversation. They are all at the world’s largest gathering of humanoid robots, which is under …
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