Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: ‘Machines are tools, not persons’
Pope Leo XIV says AI systems should be "disarmed," adding that humans "have the responsibility to guide, change and, when…
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Why is every AI interface still just a text box?
I get that it’s flexible and easy, but is a disorganized pile of “chats” and an empty text box really the best way for ordinary…
Silicon Valley wants you to invest in miracles
Investing in any stock is kind of like gambling in the sense that you're betting your money on a company's future performance…
The model advances AI image generation by allowing users to make precise changes without unintentionally altering other details.
People who use AI text-to-image generator like ChatGPT or Google Gemini often encounter a maddening problem: the image looks…
Row-Bot Demo: Give it a goal and step away
Row-Bot works toward a goal across several turns, without being prompted each time. The goal is to prepare a small shop's autumn…
SKI
Voice-first coding harness Discussion | Link
Embage
Build agent for your customers, run workflows, analyzed. Discussion | Link
I want your thoughts on the future of AI
Before I begin, I want to say I am not an expert, I am just trying to get your thoughts. For some reason people on here are…
A real citation can still be the wrong evidence for an AI answer
An AI answer says a treatment “improves long-term outcomes” and links to a real study. But suppose that study only measured a…
Reddit will force everyone to log in
Recently, CEO Steve Huffman disclosed that Reddit will transition to a "logged-in-only" experience. This means that Reddit posts…
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Muscle-sensing sleeves for robot training Discussion | Link
ilse
Point at your app and your AI agent changes the code Discussion | Link
Canva Brush
A vision-language model that edits your designs Discussion | Link
Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream
This article is brought to you by Qualcomm Technologies. For many consumers, much of the promise and appeal of AI is personal…
Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch
The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by…
Fluent 2
AI teammates that run locally on your Mac Discussion | Link
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Bug reports your coding agent can fix from one link Discussion | Link
Precise Edit by Ideogram
Precise editing with context window Discussion | Link
L’avenir appartient à tous: Meta et INCA s’associent pour soutenir les personnes aveugles, sourdes et aveugles ou ayant une basse vision au Canada
AI summary Meta has partnered with INCA, a Canadian nonprofit founded in 1918, to help blind, deafblind and low-vision Canadians use its AI glasses. Meta's funding will cover four areas, including community consultations, peer-led demonstrations, accessible training guides and feeding user feedback to Meta's product and accessibility teams. Meta is also donating glasses through INCA's employment program for job seekers. INCA chief executive Angela Bonfanti and Meta accessibility vice-president Maxine Williams both said user input will shape future products.
An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI
OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and…
Speeding up language models for travel applications
AI summary Amazon researchers worked with Booking.com to combine knowledge distillation and the Medusa parallel-decoding framework, training a 1.1-billion-parameter TinyLlama student from a 70-billion-parameter Llama-3.1 teacher. The resulting models matched the teacher's quality while running 10 to 20 times faster, at under a third of the cost. In production tests, Smart Filters answered 99 percent of queries 15 times faster, and the AI Trip Planner lifted user engagement by 2.9% compared with GPT-3.5. The work won the Industry Track best-paper award at last year's ACL meeting.
Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction
Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on…
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