The Future, This Week

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  Kai Riemer

  

  1 day ago

  AI recreates clothing with 95.7% accuracy in breakthrough experiment

  bgr.com - Joshua Hawkins

  The hype around AI continues to spread, and we’re seeing new ways that AI can make our lives easier and even more productive. The latest experiment …

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  Sandra Peter

  

  Mar 15

  Opinion | ‘The Era of Urban Supremacy Is Over’

  The New York Times - Thomas B. Edsall

  On the last day of February, Glen Lee, the chief financial officer of Washington, D.C., issued a warning to the mayor and members of the District of Columbia Council, who are undertaking such costly ventures as free bus service and expanded affordable housing. “The Covid-19 pandemic,” Lee wrote, …

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  Sandra Peter

  

  4 days ago

  Why have people looked the same for the last 20 years?

  DAZED - Kleigh Balugo

  When watching this video from Boston in 2002, does anything stand out to you as odd? Or does it just look like something that you might have seen while out and about last weekend? For many people, it’s the latter – and that’s surprising, since the footage was recorded over 20 years ago. From the …

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  Sandra Peter

  

  1 day ago

  Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model

  MIT Technology Review - Melissa Heikkilä

  If OpenAI's new model can solve grade-school math, it could pave the way for more powerful systems. Ever since last week’s dramatic events at OpenAI, …

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  Sandra Peter

  

  2 days ago

  The Battle Against AI Imagery: Sony Gets Closer to New Crypto Signature

  fstoppers.com - Jason Vinson

  As AI imagery becomes more realistic and the barrier to entry for AI image creation gets lower, the need to authenticate whether an image is real or …

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  Sandra Peter

  

  2 days ago

  DeepMind Defines Artificial General Intelligence and Ranks Today’s Leading Chatbots

  singularityhub.com - Edd Gent

  Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, has become a much-abused buzzword in the AI industry. Now, Google DeepMind wants to put the idea on a firmer …