With a cutoff of five, I would be choosing a random option for about one in every 20 decisions I made with my algorithm. I picked five as the cutoff because it seemed like a reasonable frequency for occasional randomness. For go-getters, there are further optimization processes for deciding... Read more

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Blizzard is one of the most celebrated game developers the world over, and during a panel at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas last week, Allen Adham shared some secrets to the... Read more

OpenAI On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the availability of developer APIs for its popular ChatGPT and Whisper AI models that will let developers integrate them into their apps. An API (application programming interface) is a set of protocols that allows different computer programs to communicate with each other. In this... Read more

Congratulations, it’s a bunch of bouncing baby shark pups! Shark science is taking a big swim forward with an innovation device called a birth-alert tag, or BAT, that tracks where pregnant sharks have their babies.  Knowing where and when sharks give birth could help with conservation and protection measures.... Read more

In the weeks after Ewing’s stream, the online conversation about the deepfakes continued to spiral.  Centering “real” versus “fake” diminishes the lasting impact these images have on these streamers and their careers. “We are hurting,” Blaire says. “Every single woman involved in this is hurting.”  Commenters went on tirades... Read more

Over time, the route to external financing has become a standardized, inefficient process. Founders will go to venture capitalists or wealthy ‘angels’, map out their vision and ask for funding in return for a stake in the business. Investors will do their own research and deals will always hinge... Read more

Enlarge / A volcano-themed tissue box designed with the help of AI-assisted image generation Since the introduction of DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, there has been a fair amount of hand-wringing about AI technology—some of it justified. It’s true that the technology’s future is unclear. There is great debate about... Read more

When Tina Fey and Rosalind Wiseman wrote the quintessential line “on Wednesdays, we wear pink” in their Mean Girls script, they had no idea that one day it would apply to a scientific study about flamingos. In Mean Girls, this quote is delivered to the newest member of an elite... Read more

When I’m testing a webcam, I often play with the lighting in the room, both ambient and artificial. I do my best to throw off the autofocus and white balance to see how the webcam adjusts and responds. I move farther back in my chair and wobble around like... Read more

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) has been the talk of the town since its launch in November 2022. The AI chatbot had more than a million users in just 4 days and surpassed 100 million active users... Read more