Author: iMaster

Author: iMaster

Writer, Adviser, Poet, Bot: How ChatGPT Could Transform Politics
04/24/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The AI bot ChatGPT has passed exams, written poetry, and deployed in newsrooms, and now politicians are seeking it out — but experts are warning against rapid uptake of a tool also famous for fabricating “facts.” The chatbot, released last November by U.S. firm OpenAI, has quickly moved center stage in politics — particularly as

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US Invests in Alternative Solar Tech, More Solar for Renters
04/23/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The Biden administration announced more than $80 million in funding Thursday in a push to produce more solar panels in the U.S., make solar energy available to more people, and pursue superior alternatives to the ubiquitous sparkly panels made with silicon. The initiative, spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and known as Community

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Did the AI-Generated Drake Song Breach Copyright?
04/22/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

A viral AI-generated song imitating Drake and The Weeknd was pulled from streaming services this week, but did it breach copyright as claimed by record label Universal? Created by someone called @ghostwriter, Heart On My Sleeve racked up millions of listens before Universal Music Group asked for its removal from Spotify, Apple Music and other

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US-China Competition in Tech Expands to AI Regulations
04/21/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Competition between the U.S. and China in artificial intelligence has expanded into a race to design and implement comprehensive AI regulations. The efforts to come up with rules to ensure AI’s trustworthiness, safety and transparency come at a time when governments around the world are exploring the impact of the technology on national security and

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US Targeting China, Artificial Intelligence Threats 
04/21/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

U.S. homeland security officials are launching what they describe as two urgent initiatives to combat growing threats from China and expanding dangers from ever more capable, and potentially malicious, artificial intelligence. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Friday that his department was starting a “90-day sprint” to confront more frequent and intense efforts by China

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Twitter Drops Government-Funded Media Labels
04/21/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Twitter has removed labels describing global media organizations as government-funded or state-affiliated, a move that comes after the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification checkmarks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee. Among those no longer labeled was National Public Radio in the U.S., which announced last week that it would stop using

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TikTok CEO Tries to Ease Critics’ Security Concerns
04/21/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The CEO of TikTok tried to calm critics’ fears about the security of his company’s app during an appearance Thursday. Shou Chew was asked at a TED2023 Possibility conference if he could guarantee Beijing would not use the TikTok app, owned by the Chinese tech company ByteDance, to interfere in future U.S. elections. “I can say

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Good, Bad of Artificial Intelligence Discussed at TED Conference  
04/21/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

While artificial intelligence, or AI, is not new, the speed at which the technology is developing and its implications for societies are, for many, a cause for wonder and alarm. ChatGPT recently garnered headlines for doing things like writing term papers for university students. Tom Graham and his company, Metaphysic.ai, have received attention for creating

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Twitter Begins Removing Blue Checks From Users Who Don’t Pay
04/20/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

This time it’s for real.  Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identities and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.  After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t each

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SpaceX Giant Rocket Explodes Minutes After Launch from Texas
04/20/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. Elon Musk’s company was aiming to send the nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border.

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LogOn: Artificial Intelligence Creates Voices for Films, Ads
04/18/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

A growing number of startups are using artificial intelligence to replicate human voices. A company is creating synthetic voices for organizations to use for advertising, marketing and training. Phil Dierking reports. …

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Apple Inc Bets Big on India as It Opens First Flagship Store
04/18/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Apple Inc. opened its first flagship store in India in a much-anticipated launch Tuesday that highlights the company’s growing aspirations to expand in the country it also hopes to turn into a potential manufacturing hub. The company’s CEO Tim Cook posed for photos with a few of the 100 or so Apple fans who had

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Elon Musk Says He Will Launch Rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT
04/18/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that he calls “TruthGPT” to challenge the offerings from Microsoft and Google. He criticized Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the firm behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of “training the AI to lie” and said OpenAI has now become a “closed source,” “for-profit” organization “closely allied

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SpaceX Postpones Debut Flight of Starship Rocket System
04/17/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Monday called off a highly anticipated launch of its powerful new Starship rocket, delaying the first uncrewed test flight of the vehicle into space. The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 394 feet (120 m) high, originally was scheduled for blast-off from the SpaceX facility at Boca

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Japan’s Sega to Buy Finnish Angry Birds Maker Rovio
04/17/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Japanese video games group Sega has offered to buy Angry Birds maker Rovio, valuing the Finnish company at over $770 million, the companies said Monday.    “Combining the strengths of Rovio and Sega presents an incredibly exciting future,” Alexandre Pelletier-Normand, CEO of Rovio, said in a statement, which added that Rovio was recommending shareholders to accept

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‘Big Sponge’: New CO2 Tech Taps Oceans to Tackle Global Warming
04/17/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Floating in the port of Los Angeles, a strange-looking barge covered with pipes and tanks contains a concept that scientists hope to make waves: a new way to use the ocean as a vast carbon dioxide sponge to tackle global warming. Scientists from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have been working for two years

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Europe’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Kicks Off in Finland 
04/16/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Information in this article is confirmed with other sources and may be used without attribution to The Associated Press in broadcasts — websites still must use the attribution. The News Center has no plans currently to match it.   (With AP Photo)    Europe’s Most Powerful Nuclear Reactor Kicks Off in Finland    Apr 16, 2023

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First Test Flight of SpaceX’s Big Starship
04/16/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship. It’s the biggest and mightiest rocket ever built, with the lofty goal of ferrying people to the moon and Mars. Jutting almost 120 meters into the South Texas sky, Starship could blast off as

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New US Proposal on Vehicle Emissions Seeks to Boost EV Sales
04/14/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week released proposals for the most aggressive vehicle emission standards in the country’s history, with the expectation that electric cars will account for two of every three cars being produced in the U.S. by 2032. Keith Kocinski reports. …

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First Image of Black Hole Gets Makeover With AI 
04/13/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

The first image of a black hole captured four years ago revealed a fuzzy, fiery doughnut-shaped object. Now, researchers have used artificial intelligence to give that cosmic beauty shot a touch-up. The updated picture, published Thursday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, keeps the original shape, but with a skinnier ring and a sharper resolution. The

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ChatGPT Could Return to Italy if OpenAI Complies With Rules
04/13/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

ChatGPT could return to Italy soon if its maker, OpenAI, complies with measures to satisfy regulators who had imposed a temporary ban on the artificial intelligence software over privacy worries. The Italian data protection authority on Wednesday outlined a raft of requirements that OpenAI will have to satisfy by April 30 for the ban on

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New US Electric Vehicle Rule Would Speed Supply Chain Changes
04/13/2023 iNews,iTechnology iMaster

A Biden administration proposal would force U.S. automakers to sharply increase their production of electric cars and trucks over the next decade, lending greater urgency to the effort to build raw material supply chains that reduce the industry’s dependence on China. The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced a proposed rule that would place stricter

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