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2024 is expected to be the year of mainstream artificial intelligence use

01/05/202401/04/2024 John Montgallo

Artificial Intelligence going Mainstream

AI is set to become a larger part of the daily lives of more people around the world this year. Artificial intelligence is hardly anything new at this point. It makes headlines on a regular basis and many people have already tried it out in one form or another. That said, this year, it is expected to make its way much further into the mainstream, as consumers use it as a part of their daily lives. Virtual assistants and autonomous vehicles are increasingly a part of the news we regularly…

Nvidia CEO was warned in 2020 that AI technology posed a threat to minorities

12/22/202312/21/2023 John Montgallo

Members of the Black employees group worked with Nvidia colleagues to warn the CEO of the issue. In 2020, Masheika Allgood and Alexander Tsado, former presidents of the Nvidia Black employees group, tried to warn the company’s CEO Jensen Huang that AI technology posed a risk, particularly to visible minorities. The pair had spent a year working with their company colleagues on the presentation for the CEO. That said, the pair left the meeting feeling frustrated and that their message had not been heard regarding the danger of AI technology…

Meta social media network Threads rolls out its own hashtags

12/13/202312/15/2023 John Montgallo

Threads social media - no hashtag symbol

The company started to roll out the tags but without the need to use the hash symbol. Threads, the Meta social media network many people view as an alternative to X (formerly known as Twitter), has announced that it is rolling out tags for posts, without the need for the hash symbol as is the case with hashtags on other platforms. Users will be able to choose only a single tag in order to avoid trends toward tag spam. The social media platform first started testing the new tagging feature…

Full body tracking virtual reality takes HTC to a new level

12/08/202312/07/2023 John Montgallo

The company developed the technology to be embedded into VR headsets instead of body equipment. HTC has announced a new tech development in virtual reality that allows headsets to provide full body tracking with the Vive Ultimate Trackers. The technology would make it possible to eliminate the need for those weird legless avatars. Tracking technology has been some of the most important advancements in virtual reality. It provides a measurement of movement of the head as well as other parts of the body, typically the hands. The addition of tracking…

Artificial intelligence could predict waves threatening the lives of sailors

11/29/202311/28/2023 John Montgallo

Artificial intelligence - Wave hitting side of ship

An oceanographer in Canada says that a machine-learning model could predict the “rogue waves”. An oceanographer from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, has published new research indicating that artificial intelligence could be used to predict “rogue waves”, a dangerous natural phenomenon that threatens the lives of sailors on the ocean. The waves have baffled scientists working to try to predict them due to the risk they pose to sailors. The new research involves the use of a machine-learning model of artificial intelligence that is able to predict…