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The AI Revolution Will Spawn Millions of New Tokens

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The AI Revolution Will Spawn Millions of New Tokens Tokenized AI agents will drive a new era of decentralized innovation, and their autonomy depends on the infrastructure we build today, says Georgios Vlachos, co-founder of Axelar protocol and director at Axelar Foundation.

Coindesk 854 2025-01-10

VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos

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VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos Image: VideoLANThe popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real-time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to ge…

The Verge 723 2025-01-10

Microsoft is reverting its Bing AI image generator because of quality complaints

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Microsoft is reverting its Bing AI image generator because of quality complaints Illustration by Haein Jeong / The VergeMicrosoft is rolling back a model upgrade to its AI-powered Bing Image Creator, reports TechCrunch. The rollback came after weeks of complaints by users that the tool just didn’t work as well after Microsoft “upgraded” to a new version of the DALL-E 3 model on December 18th. Microsoft declined to comment on…

The Verge 412 2025-01-09

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: AI … Minding Our Language

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Critical Studies of Education & Technology: AI … Minding Our Language Critical Studies of Education & Technology: AI … Minding Our Language As Melanie Mitchell argues in a recent article in Science, experts and non-experts alike have long struggled with finding the right words to describe AI. This means that AI is an area of technology that is full of metaphors, many of which convey the idea of AI t…

The Best Education Blog 1.0k 2025-01-09

Glamlite seems to be using AI Now for their packaging

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Glamlite seems to be using AI Now for their packaging I apologize if this is old news, but it’s something I’ve noticed lately. Does anyone remember the holiday deal they had, where you could pick a box of either spooky items or food/sweet themed items? I am 100% sure the art on those boxes was AI generated. It just had that look. Everything rendered in the exact same amount of detail, the kind of p…

Reddit Makeup Addiction 964 2025-01-09

Mythic Quest is working through its AI woes in new season 4 trailer

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Mythic Quest is working through its AI woes in new season 4 trailer Mythic Quest’s third season ended on a hopeful note as the Playpen team hunkered down to start developing an all-new expansion, but all that hard work looks like it’s just going to lead to more headaches judging from the show’s latest season 4 trailer. While Mythic Quest’s new season will find Dana (Imani Hakim), Jo (Jessie Ennis), and Brad (Dan…

The Verge 679 2025-01-09

Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind

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Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind Seriously: would you wear something like this on your face if it could really read your mind? | Image: OmiNik Shevchenko closes his eyes and starts to focus intently. He’s spent the last half hour or so telling me about his new product, an $89 wearable called Omi that can listen to, summarize, and get information out of your conversations. Now h…

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AI Hackathon at Google: Ideas for Android?

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AI Hackathon at Google: Ideas for Android? Hosting an AI hackathon at Google! What real-world problems would you love to see AI solve on Android? Open to all ideas—drop your thoughts below! submitted by /u/dreamfool101

Reddit Android 367 2025-01-09

Philips Hue App Gaining AI Assistant for Generating Light Scenes

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Philips Hue App Gaining AI Assistant for Generating Light Scenes The Philips Hue app will soon be updated with new functionality that will let users generate different light scenes using AI, Hue parent company Signify announced today. A text phrase will be able to be used to generate a lighting scene with AI, offering more customization than the built-in scenes or scenes created from photos. Hue users will b…

Mac Rumors 851 2025-01-08

LPT: Enable “track changes” in Docs or Word to combat false-positives in AI detectors.

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LPT: Enable “track changes” in Docs or Word to combat false-positives in AI detectors. I’ve seen a bunch of posts lately decrying false positives in AI detection services/software and it basically becomes a battle who can convince who. However, if you enable change tracking in your document you can show the natural progression from blank page to finished paper and kill any doubt that you wrote it yourself. submitted by /u/I…

Life Pro Tips 710 2025-01-08

This smart ring is rolling out an AI chatbot trained on medical journals

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This smart ring is rolling out an AI chatbot trained on medical journals The Evie Ring first debuted at last year’s CES. Since then, it’s launched a second ring and is now introducing an AI chatbot. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeAI is the big buzzword in health tech at CES 2025. Everywhere you look, there are AI algorithms, AI health recommendations, and AI chatbots. The thing is, AI’s got a reputatio…

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Razer Project Ava: would you pay an AI to help you get good at games?

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Razer Project Ava: would you pay an AI to help you get good at games? Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The VergeGaming hardware manufacturer Razer is introducing what might be its most controversial “project” yet — an “AI gaming copilot” designed to help you get better at video games. With your permission, it takes thousands of pictures of your screen, then tells you how to play a game, optimally in real time, a…

The Verge 770 2025-01-08

LPT: If you don’t want Google’s b.s. AI answer, add -google to end of your search.

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LPT: If you don’t want Google’s b.s. AI answer, add -google to end of your search. Any time you search using Google, you can add modifiers (Operators]) to filter your results. For example, adding ” ” around words or phrases requires they’re verbatim in the sources offered. L You can turn Google against itself by using -google to exclude results from Google, i.e. its AI. Look up Google Search Operators for more information. Enj…

Life Pro Tips 691 2025-01-08

Google is building its own ‘world modeling’ AI team for games and robot training

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Google is building its own ‘world modeling’ AI team for games and robot training Image: The VergeGoogle DeepMind is assembling a new team of artificial intelligence researchers to develop “world models” that can simulate physical environments. The initiative will be led by Tim Brooks, a former co-lead for OpenAI’s Sora project who joined DeepMind in October to work on Google’s video generation and world simulators. World mod…

The Verge 749 2025-01-08