TEHNOLOGIE Nvidia introduces the H200, an AI-crunching monster GPU that may speed up ChatGPT 16 noiembrie 2023 by | Leave a Comment Enlarge / Eight Nvidia H200 GPUs covered with a fanciful blue explosion that figuratively represents raw compute power bursting forth in a glowing flurry. (credit: Nvidia | Benj Edwards) On Monday, Nvidia announced the HGX H200 Tensor Core GPU, which utilizes the Hopper architecture to accelerate AI applications. It’s a follow-up of the H100 GPU, […] Read more »
TEHNOLOGIE Teens with “digital bazookas” are winning the ransomware war, researcher laments 16 noiembrie 2023 by | Leave a Comment Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) What do Boeing, an Australian shipping company, the world’s largest bank, and one of the world’s biggest law firms have in common? All four have suffered cybersecurity breaches, most likely at the hands of teenage hackers, after failing to patch a critical vulnerability that security experts have warned of for more […] Read more »
TEHNOLOGIE AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time: Google study 16 noiembrie 2023 by | Leave a Comment Enlarge / A file photo of Tropical Storm Fiona as seen in a satellite image from 2022. (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, the peer-reviewed journal Science published a study that shows how an AI meteorology model from Google DeepMind called GraphCast has significantly outperformed conventional weather forecasting methods in predicting global weather conditions up to […] Read more »
TEHNOLOGIE Intel fixes high-severity CPU bug that causes “very strange behavior” 16 noiembrie 2023 by | Leave a Comment Enlarge Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix a high-severity CPU bug that has the potential to be maliciously exploited against cloud-based hosts. The flaw, affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs, causes them to “enter a glitch state where the normal rules don’t apply,” Tavis Ormandy, one of several security researchers inside Google who […] Read more »
TEHNOLOGIE People think white AI-generated faces are more real than actual photos, study says 16 noiembrie 2023 by | Leave a Comment Enlarge / Eight images used in the study; four of them are synthetic. Can you tell which ones? (Answers at bottom of the article.) (credit: Nightingale and Farid (2022)) A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Science on Monday found that AI-generated faces generated with three year-old technology, particularly those representing white individuals, were […] Read more »
TEHNOLOGIE YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement 16 noiembrie 2023 by | Leave a Comment Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, YouTube announced it will soon implement stricter measures on realistic AI-generated content hosted by the service. “We’ll require creators to disclose when they’ve created altered or synthetic content that is realistic, including using AI tools,” the company wrote in a statement. The changes will roll out over the coming […] Read more »
TEHNOLOGIE Bing Chat is now “Microsoft Copilot” in potentially confusing rebranding move 16 noiembrie 2023 by | Leave a Comment Enlarge / The Microsoft Copilot logo. (credit: Microsoft) On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat—its famously once-unhinged AI chatbot—has been officially renamed “Microsoft Copilot.” The company also announced it will support OpenAI’s recently released GPTs, which are custom roles for its ChatGPT AI assistant. The rebranding move consolidates Bing Chat into Microsoft’s somewhat confusing “Copilot” […] Read more »
TEHNOLOGIE Holy chips! Microsoft’s new AI silicon will power its chatty assistants 16 noiembrie 2023 by | Leave a Comment Enlarge / A photo of the Microsoft Azure Maia 100 chip that has been altered with splashes of color by the author to look as if AI itself were bursting forth from its silicon substrate. (credit: Microsoft | Benj Edwards) On Wednesday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced two custom chips designed for accelerating […] Read more »
TEHNOLOGIE Developers can’t seem to stop exposing credentials in publicly accessible code 16 noiembrie 2023 by | Leave a Comment Enlarge (credit: Victor De Schwanberg/Science Photo Library via Getty Images) Despite more than a decade of reminding, prodding, and downright nagging, a surprising number of developers still can’t bring themselves to keep their code free of credentials that provide the keys to their kingdoms to anyone who takes the time to look for them. The […] Read more »
TEHNOLOGIE From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us 16 noiembrie 2023 by | Leave a Comment Enlarge / A composite of three DALL-E 3 AI art generations: an oil painting of Hercules fighting a shark, a photo of the queen of the universe, and a marketing photo of “Marshmallow Menace” cereal. (credit: DALL-E 3 / Benj Edwards) In October, OpenAI launched its newest AI image generator—DALL-E 3—into wide release for ChatGPT […] Read more »
