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AI Tools Like GitHub Copilot Are Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next

The CEO of GitHub says half of all code produced by users of the Copilot programming helper is now AI-generated—but that there’s no sign the technology will replace human coders.

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London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime

In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try and detect crime and weapons, people falling on the tracks, and fare dodgers, documents obtained by WIRED show.

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AI-Generated Voices in Robocalls Are Now Illegal

A month after the mysterious Biden calls in New Hampshire, the FCC can now go after robocall scammers that use AI voice clones.

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Gemini Advanced Is a Central Part of Google's Subscription Future

Google is still mostly supported by ads but its new subscription-only chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is a major new addition to the company's burgeoning services business.

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How to Get Gemini Advanced, Google's Subscription-Only AI Chatbot

Google's answer to ChatGPT Plus gives you access to Gemini Advanced, its most powerful chatbot yet.

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Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King

CEO Sundar Pichai tells WIRED that Google's new, more powerful Gemini chatbot is an experiment in offering users a way to find information and get things done without a search engine.

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Google Rebrands Its AI Chatbot as Gemini to Take On ChatGPT

Google is bringing its ChatGPT-style chatbot Bard and some other key AI features under the banner Gemini. A new, more powerful version of the chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is subscription-only.

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Gemini Advanced Is a Central Part of Google’s Subscription Future

Google is still mostly supported by ads, but its new subscription-only chatbot, Gemini Advanced, is a major addition to the company’s burgeoning services business.

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Amazon’s Cloud Boss Likens Generative AI Hype to the Dotcom Bubble

Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud platform AWS, says generative AI is valuable but that the excitement around some AI companies is similar to when dotcom darlings were “dramatically overhyped.”

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LinkedIn's New AI Chatbot Wants to Help You Find Your Next Job

A chatbot interface on LinkedIn tries to speed up job searches by offering advice such as an assessment of how well a job opening matches a person's skills.

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Confessions of an AI Clickbait Kingpin

Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles. But he wants you to know he's a nice guy.

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Six MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows

The graduate students will aim to commercialize innovations in AI, machine learning, and data science.

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Mystery Company Linked to Biden Robocall Identified by New Hampshire Attorney General

The FCC has issued a cease and desist and is working on a new proposal banning AI-generated robocalls.

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Meta Will Crack Down on AI-Generated Fakes—but Leave Plenty Undetected

Some AI-generated images posted to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will in future be labeled as artificial. But only if they are made using tools from companies willing to work with Meta.

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How symmetry can come to the aid of machine learning

Exploiting the symmetry within datasets, MIT researchers show, can decrease the amount of data needed for training neural networks.

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Doctors have more difficulty diagnosing disease when looking at images of darker skin

Dermatologists and general practitioners are somewhat less accurate in diagnosing disease in darker skin, a new study finds. Used correctly, AI may be able to help.

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Chocolates, labeled

So much of current AI-generated stuff is derivative sludge that I'm enjoying the pockets of weirdness where I find them. One of my favorite things right now: DALL-E3's attempts to label things in the images it generates.Here I asked "Please generate a cross section

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Bonus: More chocolates

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How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles

As computer-driven cars and planes become more common, the key to preventing accidents, researchers show, is to know what you don’t know.

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I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away

WIRED experimented with a new form of voice assistant that can browse the web and perform tasks online. Siri, Alexa, and other virtual helpers could soon be much more powerful.

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