The environment we combat at the end of 2023 is increasingly uncertain amidst geo-political tensions and economic fragility, but fresh approaches and ideas born of technology and innovation continue to emerge, constructed to both enrich and enhance the way we live and potentially help respond to the challenges we face. A number of these technologies … Read more
Pika is an incredible artificial intelligence tool that takes text and images and creates impressive, believable, and often beautiful multi-second video clips. Like any generative AI tool, though, Pika Labs requires the right kind of prompt to make the most of it. Here, we’ll show you how to get set up using Pika and how … Read more
A few years ago, a couple of Google employees reached out to a Minnesota scientist with an unusual proposal: What if they could teach computers to spot beaver habitats from space? “They wanted to know if I thought it was possible to find beaver wetlands from aerial imagery myself, and then if that could be … Read more
Jan 3 (Thomson Foundation) – Divyendra Singh Jadoun was busy making artificial intelligence-based visual effects and voice clones for film and television in India, when he began getting calls from politicians: could he create AI videos, or deepfakes, for their election campaign? With a hotly-contested local election in his home state of Rajasthan last November, … Read more
Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends “Find me a few books on mindfulness and meditation.” I posed the question to ChatGPT, and it put a list of 16 books with the authors’ names divided across the two categories I described. It was a quick, albeit somewhat overwhelming, way to process the flood of information. There’s nothing … Read more
The last 12 months have been pretty exciting if you’re of the Mac persuasion. We’ve had Apple’s best-ever computer chips, some incredible games landing on the Mac, plus an all-new size for the MacBook Air. Oh, and Apple also (finally) killed off the 13-inch MacBook Pro, its worst MacBook by far. With 2024 just a … Read more
The New York Times has become the first major media organization to take on AI firms in the courts, accusing OpenAI and its backer, Microsoft, of infringing its copyright by using its content to train AI-powered products such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the media giant claims … Read more
Even the most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) would struggle to conceive a plot as colourful as OpenAI. The twists and turns surrounding the recent drama, with Sam Altman as hero-turned-antihero, is proof that truth is stranger than fiction. And that AI can be as entertaining off-screen as on. Zoom out a little further, and the … Read more
NEW DELHI: People with poor objective sleep quality exhibit unfavourable physical health indicators, particularly elevated blood pressure, a study has found. Objective sleep quality consists not only of the total sleep duration, but also the amount of the different sleep stages, the duration of wake period, and the frequency of awakenings. Researchers from the University … Read more
Kunal Khullar / Digital Trends The AI era is upon us. With generative AI continuing to push forward, companies like Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm are also talking about the hardware side of the equation. With the introduction of the NPU, which stands for neural processing unit, processes that use AI will be sped up — … Read more
