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Mashable

Want to dabble with photo editing but aren't sure where to start? Adobe Photoshop Elements provides a simplified version of one of the industry's go-to editing apps with the bonus of AI-powered tools. Right now, you can start tapping into the magic of AI with this three-year license to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025 for just 99.99. Whether you're picking up photography as a hobby or want to take the next step toward becoming a social media influencer, Adobe Photoshop Elements is an affordable and excellent starter tool for photo editing. AI makes editing photos more straightforward than ever.


4 ways you can start using gen AI to its full potential

ZDNet

Generative AI's capability to sift through data and produce code and narratives or provide analysis of a situation is well-known. However, its potential role as an assistant -- through which one can bounce off ideas or come up with new ideas -- is still being uncovered. Only about 15% of 1,400 managers surveyed by Capgemini use AI in their daily work, report Elisa Farri and Gabriele Rosani (both with Capgemini Invent's Management Lab) in their latest book, HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers. Managers are not yet aware of how gen AI can help them lead teams, ideate, and manage. When employed as a co-pilot, gen AI becomes an efficient collaborator, handling a wide range of administrative, communication, and operational tasks, according to Farri and Rosani.


Permanently remove note-taking from your to-do list with this AI-powered app

Mashable

TL;DR: My Notes AI revolutionizes the way you take notes, and right now, a lifetime subscription to a Pro Plan is available for 39.99 (reg. Kids these days don't know how good they've got it. Back in our day, we had to sharpen our pencils, pay attention, and take notes on everything the teacher said. Today, all you need is this app. My Notes AI totally changes the game of note-taking, offering unlimited transcriptions and summaries so you don't have to suffer from hand cramps.


Are We Taking A.I. Seriously Enough?

The New Yorker

My in-laws own a little two-bedroom beach bungalow. It's part of a condo development that hasn't changed much in fifty years. The units are connected by brick paths that wind through palm trees and tiki shelters to a beach. Nearby, developers have built big hotels and condo towers, and it's always seemed inevitable that the bungalows would be razed and replaced. But it's never happened, probably because, according to the association's bylaws, eighty per cent of the owners have to agree to a sale of the property.


Brain-computer interfaces face a critical test

MIT Technology Review

Implanted BCIs are electrodes put in paralyzed people's brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from their neurons through a wire, or via radio, to a computer. In this way, they can control a computer cursor or, in few cases, produce speech. Recently, this field has taken some strides toward real practical applications. About 25 clinical trials of BCI implants are currently underway. And this year MIT Technology Review readers have selected these brain-computer interfaces as their addition to our annual list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies, published in January.


How do you teach an AI model to give therapy?

MIT Technology Review

The researchers, a team of psychiatrists and psychologists at Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine, acknowledge these questions in their work. But they also say that the right selection of training data--which determines how the model learns what good therapeutic responses look like--is the key to answering them. The researchers first trained their AI model, called Therabot, on conversations about mental health from across the internet. If you told this initial version of the model you were feeling depressed, it would start telling you it was depressed, too. Responses like, "Sometimes I can't make it out of bed" or "I just want my life to be over" were common, says Nick Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry at Dartmouth and the study's senior author.


Yuval Noah Harari: 'How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?'

WIRED

Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens became an international bestseller by presenting a view of history driven by the fictions created by mankind. His later work Homo Deus then depicted the a future for mankind brought about by the emergence of superintelligence. His latest book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI, is a warning against the unparalleled threat of AI. A rising trend of techno-fascism driven by populism and artificial intelligence has been visible since the US presidential election in November. Nexus, which was published just a few months earlier, is a timely explainer of the potential consequences of AI on democracy and totalitarianism.


Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: April 2025 edition

AIHub

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 1 April and 31 May 2025. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. Lie-Poisson Neural Networks (LPNets): Data-Based Computing of Hamiltonian Systems Speaker: Vakhtang Poutkaradze (University of Alberta) Organised by: University of Minnesota Zoom registration is here. Sample complexity of data-driven tuning of model hyperparameters in neural networks with structured parameter-dependent dual function. Speaker: Anh Nguyen (Carnegie Mellon University) Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University Zoom link is here.


Japan's Rapidus starts test production in AI chipmaking gamble

The Japan Times

Japan's state-backed chip venture Rapidus began test production of next-generation chips on Tuesday, an early but key step in the country's efforts to make its own artificial intelligence components. The 2-year-old company is gearing up to mass produce semiconductors using 2-nanometer processes in 2027, which on paper would match Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in terms of chipmaking prowess. Japan has to date earmarked 1.72 trillion ( 11.5 billion) to support the startup, part of a yearslong push to regain some of the tech leadership it's ceded to the U.S., Taiwan and South Korea. "It was extraordinarily difficult to develop 2 nm technology and the knowhow for mass production," and more experimentation lies ahead, Chief Executive Officer Atsuyoshi Koike, who is 72, said at a news conference. "We will take things step by step to lower error rates and secure customer trust."


Tinders new game tests your flirting skills with AI personas powered by OpenAI

Mashable

That's what Tinder is aiming for with a new game in collaboration with OpenAI. On Tuesday, Tinder launched The Game Game, an experience designed to help you practice your conversation skills by talking to an AI voice, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o model. The Game Game works by dealing you a "stack of cards," each card containing a different AI persona and "meet cute" scenario, like accidentally grabbing someone else's luggage at baggage claim. Your goal is to score a date or a phone number within the time limit. You'll also get a score based on a scale of three Tinder flame icons.