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Mice wear tiny virtual reality goggles so researchers can learn about them

12/19/202312/18/2023 Julie Campbell

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The gadgets allow scientists to develop better experiments so they can better understand them. Researchers have announced that they have developed a way to outfit lab mice with virtual reality goggles that will allow those researchers to learn a considerable amount about the rodents. The technology does sound odd, but it has a range of highly practical applications for research. Scientists plan to use the new virtual reality technology to better understand the way mice respond to things they typically experience in the wild, such as predatory birds. Though this…

How many of your holiday purchases were decided by mobile commerce algorithms?

12/12/202312/11/2023 Julie Campbell

Mobile commerce - Person using mobile phone - algorithms search

We’d all like to think we’re making our own shopping choices, but tech is playing a growing role. At this time of the year, when many people shop more heavily than at any other point on the calendar, mobile commerce algorithms are playing an increasingly important and strategic role in helping us to place items in our cart before we check out. Marketing strategies such as recommended and suggested items have become a normal part of shopping. As natural as it may feel to see suggested products while we browse…

Google and OpenAI both announce artificial intelligence delays

12/06/202312/05/2023 Julie Campbell

The companies that had been pushing forward as fast as they could are slowing things down. Google first unveiled its Gemini AI project at I/O 2023, intending the technology to be an artificial intelligence rival to GPT-4 from OpenAI. Google has now canceled the launch events for Gemini AI scheduled for this month. Beyond the cancellation of the launch events, Google has delayed the launch of the artificial intelligence competitor to GPT-4 in January 2024. At I/O 2023, the company called Gemini a foundational model that had “impressive multimodal capabilities,”…

Artificial intelligence is being trained on books without author knowledge or consent

10/13/202310/12/2023 Julie Campbell

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Nearly 200,000 books are being used for this purpose by some of the largest AI companies. Books3 is a system that uses books to train artificial intelligence, but according to a recent CTV report, the authors of those works were not informed and did not provide their consent. According to a recent investigation, Books3 allegedly uses a pirated e-book collection spanning many genres. The books included in the artificial intelligence learning library include everything from prose to poetry in virtually any genre. They are used to help generative AI systems…

Your iPhone screen contains a hidden QR code

10/04/202310/03/2023 Julie Campbell

Apple has added the barcode to the smartphone screens for a practical and very simple reason. Apple adds a hidden QR code to all iPhone screens for a reason that many consumers are finding to be curious and quite logical at the same time. The quick response barcodes are being added to the glass itself and nearly hidden to the naked eye. The reason Apple has been adding a hidden QR code to its iPhone screens is simply to help track how many glass cover units are produced and how…