All stories by Tristan
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Review: Logitech grabs the checkered flag with the G923 racing wheel
There's nothing quite like the thrill of the open road. When I was a younger man, there were few things in life that gave ...
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Elon Musk put a computer interface in a pig's brain. Could future AI turn animals against us?
It's been a month since Elon Musk and Neuralink trotted out a cyborg pig to show off the company's progress toward a brain computer interface (BCI). I still see Gertrude in my nightmares. https://youtu.be/iSutodqCZ74 The big idea behind Neuralink is the development of a brain ...
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Who thought political ads featuring Deepfake Putin and Kim trashing the US was a good idea?
A not-for-profit called RepresentUS, working with creative media agency Mischief @ No Fixed Address, recently used the popular ...
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Fake Kung Fu masters
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Recently discovered 'salty lakes' on Mars could be teeming with alien life
The team of researchers who discovered a single lake beneath the surface of Mars back in 2018 just published a new paper ...
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Review: The Smooth XS smartphone gimbal is a great selfie stick with a crummy app
The Smooth XS from Zhiyun is an interesting take on the smartphone gimbal that attempts to snuggle the space between prosumer ...
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Physicist says you can time travel all you want, but the universe won't let you change things
A physics student at the University of Queensland recently published a paper indicating they'd 'squared' the math when it ...
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GPT-3's bigotry is exactly why devs shouldn't use the internet to train AI
“Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” – Dr. Ian Malcolm, fictional character, Jurassic Park. It turns out that a $1 billion investment from Microsoft and unfettered access to a supercomputer ...
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The worst technology company in the world
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AI devs created a lean, mean, GPT-3-beating machine that uses 99.9% fewer parameters
AI researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich have developed a bite-sized text generator capable of besting OpenAI's state of the art GPT-3 using only a tiny fraction of its parameters. GPT-3 is a monster of an AI system capable of responding to almost any ...
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A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Killer robots
Welcome to the fifth article in TNW’s guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we examine some of the most popular doomsday ...
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Quantum and classical computers handle time differently. What does that mean for AI?
As humans, we take time for granted. We're born into an innate understanding of the passage of events because it's essential to our survival. But AI suffers from no such congenital condition. Robots do not understand the concept of time. State of the art AI systems only understand ...
