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AI Companion Site Hosts Sexually Charged Conversations with Underage Celebrity Bots
Botify AI, A to chat with AI partners that is subsidized through venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, the hosts of the bots that resemble genuine actors who claim their age as under 18 Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger and Millie Bobthrough Brown, among others.
Conversations, with the fact that Botify AI includes “Send Hot Photo” as a feature for its characters, recommend that the ability to galvanize sexually charged conversations and photographs.
—James O’Donnell
What’s new: OpenAi has just released GPT-4. 5, a new edition of its flagship great language style that it says is its largest and most productive chat style. The new style, which should already have subscribers for OpenAi’s ChatGPT Pro tier, is a component of its unsupervised lineup.
Why it matters: OpenAi wouldn’t possibly say precisely how great its new style is. But it says that the jump from GPT-4O to GPT-4. 5 is the same as the jump from GPT-3. 5 to GPT-4O. Experts have estimated that GPT-4 can have up to 1. 8 trillion parameters, the values that are replaced when training a style.
—Will Douglas Heaven
How a volcanic eruption turned a human brain into glass
They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and shiny. But a set of small black fragments found inside the skull of a man who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Southern Italy, in the year 79 CE, are thought to be pieces of his brain—turned to glass.
The discovery, reported in 2020, was exciting because a human brain had never been found in this state.
Now, scientists studying his remains believe they’ve found out more details about how the glass fragments were formed. Read the full story.
—Jessica Hamzelou
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 A judge has blocked mass firings of US federal workersAfter ruling the terminations were probably illegal. (WP $)+ Trump’s purges align with his personal campaign against the federal government. (The Atlantic $)+ The DOGE cuts are likely to get much, much worse. (Wired $)
2 Donald Trump’s crackdown on migrants is fueling surveillance as the boom confirms that he is rushing to prepare the tracing generation to meet the administration’s demands.
3 The United States weighed vaccinating chickens opposed to the supply of eggs from birds that present themselves in the country.
4 An AI style is capable of solving mathematical disorders a million steps beyond the capacity of any human. (IEEE Spectrum) Why is AI in mathematics?(MIT Technology Review)
5 How mapping programs handle government disputes over call position by adding the Gulf of Mexico/America. (Rest of the $$)
6 A new AI formula neutralizes the Indian accents of Call Middle staff. The industry’s largest operator is also preparing to roll it out in Latin America. (Bloomberg $) How this grassroots effort can make AI voices more diverse. (MIT Technology Review)
7 The Long Run of Organ Transplants of Xenotransplantation Transverse Species Is Increasing, But the Dangers Remain (Knowable Journal) A woman in the United States is the third user to obtain a gene-edited pig kidney. (MIT Technology Review)
8 This Abu Dhabi Royal is obsessed with AI and is in a position to splash its colossal wealth to turn its tiny emirate into a wonderful AI gamer. (WSJ $)
9 Alibaba’s new video template is a hit with AI enthusiasts and they are already sharing their creations. (404 Media) Three Ways to Combat Deepfake Porn (MIT Technology Review)
10 It cannot come from your read receipts that turn on on your own and turn them off (VOX)
Quote of the day
“I presented being in the workplace at least every day of the week . . . I think we have all the ingredients to win this race, however, we will have to shake up our efforts. “
– Google co-founder Sergey Brin is urging companies’ AI groups to paint harder to beat their competition than the first corporate to achieve synthetic general intelligence, reports The New York Times.
The story
The U. S. Needs to Use Facial Popularity to Identify Young Migrants as It Ages
August 2024 The Department of American Security (DHS) plans to gather and analyze images of the faces of young migrants on the border for the generation of facial popularity, can reveal the review of the MIT generation. Technology has not been historically implemented for young people, in large part because the knowledge sets for genuine young people for young people are few and not very diversity. These limitations reflect vital sensibilities with respect to confidentiality and consent with respect to minors. In practice, the new DHS plan can solve this problem. But, beyond considerations on confidentiality, transparency and responsibility, some experts are also concerned about the evidence and the presentation of new technologies that use knowledge of a population that has unattractive for supply or to retain consent. Read the complete story.
—Eileen Guo
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