BOSTON — Artificial intelligence is being used for everything from guiding self-powered cars and developing life-saving medicines to powering online search engines that help you find a plumber…
Read more State to use AI to improve governmentMicrosoft’s AI chief said those building AI should make sure it’s easy for the public to comprehend it—and offered his own analogy to help do so. Warning! Microsoft…
Read more Microsoft Exec Says AI Is ‘a New Kind of Digital Species’Video games engine provider Unity announced earlier today the introduction of two new machine-learning platforms, one of which in particular has developers and artists asking questions of the…
Read more Unity Announces Big ‘AI’ Plans, Developers Have ConcernsAI is coming to games, whether you like it or not. Last night’s Nvidia keynote showed just how powerful—and devastating—that’s going to be. The company’s CEO, Jensen Huang,…
Read more Nvidia’s New AI Is Coming For Absolutely Every Gaming JobWhen it’s not stealing or plagiarizing, generative AI is improving quickly. Images that used to look uncanny now appear more natural and humanly imperfect. But it still struggles…
Read more AI Image Generator Is Making Wild And Horrifying Game ControllersImage: Discord In a blog post published earlier today, Discord—a communications platform, and nothing more—announced plans to introduce what they call “AI” (but which should more accurately be…
Read more Discord Introducing ‘AI’ Stuff Nobody Asked For, Or NeedsNEW YORK—Expressing confidence that the new technology wasn’t a threat, FinCorp Solutions CEO Charles Markham reportedly expressed relief Wednesday that artificial intelligence could never replace him if he…
Read more CEO Relieved AI Can Never Replace Him If He Already Contributes Nothing To CompanyImage: Yuichiro Chino (Getty Images) The award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine has helped launch the careers of science fiction writers for almost 20 years, regularly featuring work from Hugo Award…
Read more AI Forgeries Are Messing With The Sci-Fi WorldLast year, AI generated art finally broke through the mainstream—but not without significant public controversy. The rampant art theft required to build an AI’s dataset and the resulting…
Read more What People Get Wrong When They Think About Video Game AIImage: Kickstarter Until today, there had been an active Kickstarter campaign running for Unstable Diffusion, a project describing themselves as “a group born out of a grassroots community…
Read more Kickstarter Suspends AI-Generated Image (Well, Porn) ProjectFor the past week, ArtStation—the world’s most popular portfolio site for professional (and amateur!) artists working in the entertainment business—has been rocked by protests from its users, after…
Read more Some Of My Favorite Images From ArtStation’s AI ProtestsImage: ArtStation | Kotaku Both professional and amateur artists alike were united yesterday in protest against ArtStation, the field’s biggest portfolio site, for its seeming inaction against a…
Read more ArtStation Responds To AI Controversy, Makes Things WorseAdobe used to be known as the company that made Acrobat and PhotoShop. Adobe is increasingly becoming known, however, as one of the great digital grifters of the…
Read more Adobe Embraces AI Art, Can Get In The BinScreenshot: YouTube Facebook, or as we’re supposed to call them now Meta, announced earlier today that their CICERO artificial intelligence has achieved “human-level performance” in the board game…
Read more Facebook Says It Has Created A ‘Human-Level’ Board Game AI
