AI Jesus may ‘listen’ to your confession, but can’t absolve your sins − a Catholicism scholar explains (The Conversation) — In the future, a program like AI Jesus could be used to hear confessions around the clock. But with no experience of having a human body, it cannot engage or absolve human sins. The post AI Jesus may ‘listen’ to your confession, but can’t absolve your sins − a Catholicism scholar explains appeared first on RNS.

Apple Looking to Fundamentally Change iPhone Memory Design to Enhance AI Performance Apple is reportedly planning a significant shift in its iPhone hardware design by transitioning to discrete memory packaging to enhance on-device AI performance. Samsung, a key supplier of Apple’s memory components, has begun research to accommodate the change at Apple’s request, according to a new report from Korea’s The Elec. The shift will m…

Samsung One UI 7 Beta Starts To Roll Out Showcasing the Glimpse of Future of Mobile AI submitted by /u/Professa91

How one creator visualized AI by using very little AI Photo: Stormy Pyeatte for The VergeThe artist behind The Verge’s ‘Friend or Faux?’ feature explains the practical effects behind its design. Read the full story at The Verge.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he’d love to do side-by-side comparison with Microsoft’s AI models Google CEO fired back at Microsoft CEO’s comments aimed at Google’s footing in the AI arms race.

Asking AI for Help With Elf on the Shelf Was a Mistake I asked ChatGPT and Claude, and got some hilariously impractical ideas.

Humane wants to put the AI Pin’s software inside your phone, car, and smart speaker Image: HumaneHumane, which makes the not-great AI Pin, wants other companies to build AI devices and gadgets that use its CosmOS operating system, and it has released a video that appears to show that the company already has it working in a car, TV, smart speaker, and phone. But note that the video, according to Humane’s own fine print, is for “…

LPT: Job hunting? Send your resume through an AI resume-parser It should come as no surprise that the professional recruiting world now uses AI to do early filtering of application candidates, and this is done in major part with Applicant Tracking Services (ATS) which include resume parsers that basically distill the information in your resume into little text fields that a recruiter can auto-filter or visu…

Salesforce shares jump on earnings beat and strong AI deals pipeline Salesforce shares popped Wednesday on earnings beat and AI pipeline

New York City’s $83 Million AI Bus Cameras Issued Nearly 3,800 Unwarranted Citations We have been writing about the implementation of AI cameras on city buses in various regions of the country for a while now, but the most populous city in the United States recently had a massive hiccup in the rollout of its cameras. As with other cities, New York’s AI camera program was slated to begin by issuing… Read more…

2024 in review: AI Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesIn 2024, you couldn’t escape hearing about AI. From smartphones to wearables to the smart home, it seemed every tech company wanted to pitch their next great AI innovation. The year was filled with impressive technological leaps and useful new tools, endless hype and frequent misfires, and implicatio…

Meta turns to nuclear energy for its AI ambitions Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeMeta is turning to nuclear energy to power its AI ambitions with the release a request for proposals to partner with nuclear energy developers. It’s the latest announcement in a string of recent deals Big Tech companies have made to secure nuclear energy for their data centers. Developing new AI tools is an energy…

Apple CEO Tim Cook Opens Up About AI Plans, Vision Pro Future, and More in New Interview WIRED today shared in an in-depth interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, asking questions about AI, Vision Pro sales, pre-recorded keynotes, and more. The wide-ranging interview covers Apple’s pivot toward AI technology, including what Apple Intelligence features Cook finds most useful, Apple’s partnership with OpenAI, and the environmental impact …

‘Spotify Wrapped’ Recaps Your Listening History for 2024 Using AI Hosts Spotify has made its annual recap feature “Spotify Wrapped” available to users on the iOS and Android app. This feature tracks your top artists, genres, songs, podcasts, and minutes listened, and generates graphics for sharing on social media. This year’s Spotify Wrapped has a distinctly AI-driven twist: The company has partnered with Google t…

Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast to recap your listening habits Image: SpotifyThis year’s Spotify Wrapped has arrived. As you look at your stats for 2024, you’ll find a few new features you can use to interact with your data, including one that lets you listen to and share an AI-generated podcast summarizing your listening habits. Spotify built this feature using Google’s AI note-taking tech, NotebookLM, whi…

Google’s new generative AI video model is now available Image: GoogleVeo, Google’s latest generative AI video model, is now available for businesses to start incorporating into their content creation pipelines. After first being unveiled in May — three months after OpenAI demoed its competing Sora product — Veo has beaten it to market by launching in a private preview via Google’s Vertex AI platform….

Apple says it uses Amazon’s custom AI chips Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services’ custom AI chips for services like searching and will evaluate if its latest AI chip can be used to pre-train its AI models like Apple Intelligence.

Apple Uses Amazon’s Custom AI Chips for Search Services Apple uses custom Trainium and Graviton artificial intelligence chips from Amazon Web Services for search services, Apple machine learning and AI director Benoit Dupin said today at the AWS re:Invent conference (via CNBC). Dupin said that Amazon’s AI chips are “reliable, definite, and able to serve customers worldwide.” AWS and Amazon h…

Amazon announces its own set of Nova AI models Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAmazon has announced a series of new AI foundation models under a new “Nova” branding that will be available as part of the Amazon Bedrock model library in AWS. There are three “understanding” models available now, Amazon says in a blog post: Amazon Nova Micro, a text model that’s “optimized for speed and …

Nvidia Rules A.I. Chips, but Amazon and AMD Emerge as Contenders Amazon, Advanced Micro Devices and several start-ups are beginning to offer credible alternatives to Nvidia’s chips, especially for a phase of A.I. development known as “inferencing.”