ApplicationEnd UserSectorSource DataTechnology two fighter pilots performed a high-altitude proto-metaverse experiment. A few thousand feet above the desert of California, in a pair of jets, they donned custom AR headsets to connect to a system that overlaid a ghostly, glowing image of a refueling aircraft flying alongside them in the sky. One of the pilots then performed a refueling maneuver with the virtual tanker while the other looked on. Welcome to the fledgling military metaverse.It isn’t only Silicon Valley that’s gripped by these days. Just as tech companies and corporations are for...…ApplicationEnd UserSectorSource DataTechnology two fighter pilots performed a high-altitude proto-metaverse experiment. A few thousand feet above the desert of California, in a pair of jets, they donned custom AR headsets to connect to a system that overlaid a ghostly, glowing image of a refueling aircraft flying alongside them in the sky. One of the pilots then performed a refueling maneuver with the virtual tanker while the other looked on. Welcome to the fledgling military metaverse.It isn’t only Silicon Valley that’s gripped by these days. Just as tech companies and corporations are for...WW…

ApplicationEnd UserSectorSource DataTechnology victory-tweeted his on Monday evening, he committed to improving the social network by, among other things, “making the algorithms open source to increase trust.”In a , the entrepreneur suggested that the algorithm that determines how tweets are promoted and demoted could be uploaded to the software hosting platform GitHub, making it available to people outside of the company. “People can look through it and say, ‘Oh, I see a problem here, I don’t agree with this,’” Musk said. “They can highlight issues and suggest changes, in the same way that...…ApplicationEnd UserSectorSource DataTechnology victory-tweeted his on Monday evening, he committed to improving the social network by, among other things, “making the algorithms open source to increase trust.”In a , the entrepreneur suggested that the algorithm that determines how tweets are promoted and demoted could be uploaded to the software hosting platform GitHub, making it available to people outside of the company. “People can look through it and say, ‘Oh, I see a problem here, I don’t agree with this,’” Musk said. “They can highlight issues and suggest changes, in the same way that...WW…

ApplicationEnd UserSectorSource DataTechnology in can be traced back to 2012 and a breakthrough during a competition built around , a set of 14 million labeled images.In the competition, a method called , which involves feeding examples to a giant simulated , proved dramatically better at identifying objects in images than other approaches. That kick-started interest in using AI to solve different problems.But shows that ImageNet and nine other key AI data sets contain many errors. Researchers at MIT compared how an AI algorithm trained on the data interprets an image with the label that...…ApplicationEnd UserSectorSource DataTechnology in can be traced back to 2012 and a breakthrough during a competition built around , a set of 14 million labeled images.In the competition, a method called , which involves feeding examples to a giant simulated , proved dramatically better at identifying objects in images than other approaches. That kick-started interest in using AI to solve different problems.But shows that ImageNet and nine other key AI data sets contain many errors. Researchers at MIT compared how an AI algorithm trained on the data interprets an image with the label that...WW…

ApplicationEnd UserSectorSource DataTechnology most dazzling recent advances in have come thanks to resources only available at big tech companies, where thousands of powerful computers and terabytes of data can be as copious as free granola bars and nap pods.A new project aims to show this needn’t be the case, by cobbling together the code, data, and computer power needed to reproduce one of the most epic—and potentially useful—AI algorithms developed in recent years. is an effort to match GPT-3, a released in 2020 by the company that is sometimes capable of writing strikingly coherent...…ApplicationEnd UserSectorSource DataTechnology most dazzling recent advances in have come thanks to resources only available at big tech companies, where thousands of powerful computers and terabytes of data can be as copious as free granola bars and nap pods.A new project aims to show this needn’t be the case, by cobbling together the code, data, and computer power needed to reproduce one of the most epic—and potentially useful—AI algorithms developed in recent years. is an effort to match GPT-3, a released in 2020 by the company that is sometimes capable of writing strikingly coherent...WW…

SectorTechnology seemed fair.Two F-16s engaged with an opposing F-16 at an altitude of 16,000 feet above rocky desert terrain. As the aircraft converged from opposite directions, the paired F-16s suddenly spun away from one another, forcing their foe to choose one to pursue. The F-16 that had been left alone then quickly changed course, maneuvering behind the enemy with textbook precision. A few seconds later, it launched a missile that destroyed the opposing jet before it could react.The battle took place last month in a computer simulator. Here’s what made it special: All three aircraft...…SectorTechnology seemed fair.Two F-16s engaged with an opposing F-16 at an altitude of 16,000 feet above rocky desert terrain. As the aircraft converged from opposite directions, the paired F-16s suddenly spun away from one another, forcing their foe to choose one to pursue. The F-16 that had been left alone then quickly changed course, maneuvering behind the enemy with textbook precision. A few seconds later, it launched a missile that destroyed the opposing jet before it could react.The battle took place last month in a computer simulator. Here’s what made it special: All three aircraft...WW…

End UserSectorSource DataTechnology intelligence researchers engineered a big leap in computer vision thanks, in part, to an unusually large set of images—thousands of everyday objects, people, and scenes in photos that were scraped from the web and labeled by hand. That data set, known as , is still used in thousands of research projects and experiments today.But last week every human face included in ImageNet suddenly disappeared—after the researchers who manage the data set decided to blur them.Just as ImageNet helped usher in a new age of AI, efforts to fix it reflect challenges that...…End UserSectorSource DataTechnology intelligence researchers engineered a big leap in computer vision thanks, in part, to an unusually large set of images—thousands of everyday objects, people, and scenes in photos that were scraped from the web and labeled by hand. That data set, known as , is still used in thousands of research projects and experiments today.But last week every human face included in ImageNet suddenly disappeared—after the researchers who manage the data set decided to blur them.Just as ImageNet helped usher in a new age of AI, efforts to fix it reflect challenges that...WW…

ApplicationEnd UserSectorTechnology US government has let the private sector and the free market do their thing, betting this is the surest way to spur innovation and conjure up the advances needed to keep the American economy on top of the world.Now, with , the approach is starting to change. Washington is taking baby steps toward something closer to central planning—seeking to inspire, guide, and protect advances in key areas like , , and .The latest evidence of a shift in thinking is the final report of the ). The commission was created by the Pentagon in 2018 to study the national...…ApplicationEnd UserSectorTechnology US government has let the private sector and the free market do their thing, betting this is the surest way to spur innovation and conjure up the advances needed to keep the American economy on top of the world.Now, with , the approach is starting to change. Washington is taking baby steps toward something closer to central planning—seeking to inspire, guide, and protect advances in key areas like , , and .The latest evidence of a shift in thinking is the final report of the ). The commission was created by the Pentagon in 2018 to study the national...WW…

has racked up hundreds of millions of YouTube views with viral clips of its futuristic, legged robots , , and .A group of meme-spinning pranksters now wants to present a more dystopian view of the company's robotic tech. They added a paintball gun to , the company’s doglike machine, and plan to let others control it inside a mocked-up art gallery via the internet later this week.The project, called , is the work of (pronounced “mischief,” of course), an internet collective that regularly carries out meme-worthy pranks.Previous MSCHF stunts include creating to whomever could hold a button...…has racked up hundreds of millions of YouTube views with viral clips of its futuristic, legged robots , , and .A group of meme-spinning pranksters now wants to present a more dystopian view of the company's robotic tech. They added a paintball gun to , the company’s doglike machine, and plan to let others control it inside a mocked-up art gallery via the internet later this week.The project, called , is the work of (pronounced “mischief,” of course), an internet collective that regularly carries out meme-worthy pranks.Previous MSCHF stunts include creating to whomever could hold a button...WW…

ApplicationEnd UserSectorTechnology co-director of a prestigious lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was scanning an in December when he noticed something odd—his name listed as an author alongside three researchers in China whom he didn’t know on two papers he didn’t recognize.At first, he didn’t think much of it. The name Cox isn’t uncommon, so he figured there must be another David Cox doing AI research. “Then I opened up the PDF and saw my own picture looking back at me,” says. “It was unbelievable.”It isn’t clear how prevalent this kind of academic fraud may be, or why someone would list...…ApplicationEnd UserSectorTechnology co-director of a prestigious lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was scanning an in December when he noticed something odd—his name listed as an author alongside three researchers in China whom he didn’t know on two papers he didn’t recognize.At first, he didn’t think much of it. The name Cox isn’t uncommon, so he figured there must be another David Cox doing AI research. “Then I opened up the PDF and saw my own picture looking back at me,” says. “It was unbelievable.”It isn’t clear how prevalent this kind of academic fraud may be, or why someone would list...WW…

We're lucky that aren’t a big problem yet. The best deepfake detector to emerge from a major Facebook-led effort to combat the altered videos would only catch about two-thirds of them.In September, as speculation about the danger of deepfakes grew, challenged wizards to develop techniques for detecting deepfake videos. In January, the company also used to spread misinformation.Facebook’s , in collaboration with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and the , was , a platform for coding contests that is owned by Google. It provided a vast collection of face-swap videos: 100,000 deepfake clips,...…We're lucky that aren’t a big problem yet. The best deepfake detector to emerge from a major Facebook-led effort to combat the altered videos would only catch about two-thirds of them.In September, as speculation about the danger of deepfakes grew, challenged wizards to develop techniques for detecting deepfake videos. In January, the company also used to spread misinformation.Facebook’s , in collaboration with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and the , was , a platform for coding contests that is owned by Google. It provided a vast collection of face-swap videos: 100,000 deepfake clips,...WW…