Men who have trouble finding dates are reportedly turning to artificial intelligence and self-described love guru to craft appealing dating profiles. “My AI prompts and training can turn any guy from zero to hero,” Stefan-Pierre Tomlin, a 32-year-old London model and self-described love guru, told South West News Service, according …
Read More »Fast X’s new trailer obliterates the Vatican
The Fast and Furious franchise is all about family, but it is also about enormous action set pieces that even make Tom Cruise say “neat,” and in the second trailer for Fast X, the 10th — 10th! — installment in the Fast and Furious franchise, Jason Momoa appears to blow …
Read More »US Federal Trade Commission leaders plan to pursue companies that misuse AI to violate civil rights
Leaders of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday the agency would pursue companies who misuse artificial intelligence to violate laws against discrimination or be deceptive. The sudden popularity of Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT this year has prompted calls for regulation amid concerns around the world about the possible use …
Read More »Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter alternative, is now on Android
The AT Protocol’s @-symbol logo. | Image: Bluesky Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized Twitter alternative, now has an Android app. The launch follows the release of the service’s iOS app, which came out in late February. However, if you want to access the service at all, you’ll need to join …
Read More »Reddit to charge AI companies for use of its API
Reddit is planning to charge tech companies for the use of its application programming interface. Through the method, outside entities have the ability to download and process the social network’s conversations, including tech giants using them in the development of artificial intelligence tech like large language models. “The Reddit corpus …
Read More »Nintendo’s Indie World showcase features Cult of the Lamb DLC, Oxenfree II, and more
Massive Monster In case Tears of the Kingdom isn’t your thing or you need something to tide you over until May 12th, Nintendo put on a 20-minute Indie World presentation chock-full of new games, DLC, trailers, and more. Here are the highlights. Mineko’s Night Market In Mineko’s Night Market, you …
Read More »Schools, museums turn to AI to detect guns but tech suffers notable fails
Schools and museums are installing artificial intelligence that can detect the presence of guns or other weapons in a bid to thwart potential shootings and other violence. Miami’s Frost Museum of Science, as well as school districts in states such as Florida, New York and Illinois, have installed various AI …
Read More »Netflix delays its password-sharing crackdown to sometime before July
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is pushing back its plans to crack down on password sharing in the US until sometime before July. In an earnings report released on Tuesday, the streamer says it “shifted out the timing of the broad launch from late Q1 to Q2.” …
Read More »OpenAI CEO says era of giant AI models is over
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the age of the giant artificial intelligence model is already over. “I think we’re at the end of the era where it’s going to be these, like, giant, giant models,” he told an audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over Zoom last week. “We’ll …
Read More »Reddit’s upcoming API changes will make AI companies pony up
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit announced new API changes today that will eventually pinch its content pipeline from being used to train artificial intelligence tools, including the models that power OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s Bing AI. AI chatbots’ abilities to provide powerful answers have data resources …
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