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RizzGPT smart glasses listen to your conversations and tell you what to say in real-time

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Do you get tongue-tied when your Hinge date asks you about your five year plan? Or when an interviewer asks you why you want the job, because you can't say'money'? Well, set that deodorant aside, as student engineers from Stanford University have created you a solution - smart glasses that tell you exactly what to say. Dubbed'RizzGPT' - where'rizz' refers to one's ability to seduce a romantic interest, similar to charisma - the specs display responses as text in front of your eyes. A microphone picks up on what a speaker has said, and the glasses use ChatGPT - the chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) - to generate potential replies.


Revolutionary AI system learns by using text, video, and audio.

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The new AI system can connect information, that it gets from text, video, and audio. This new AI-based system can connect itself with multiple systems more effectively, than ever before. And that thing makes the system very effective. At this point, we must realize one thing. The AI itself is a platform-free application.


Kagan: Defend yourself against loss of personal privacy

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Last week the Washington Post wrote about the growing concern privacy experts are having over AI and cameras in self powered, robot vacuum cleaners like iRobot Roomba or Shark ION Robot. The point is, if these devices can see and recognize dog poop and avoid it, what other personal and private conversations can they see and hear? Remember, if they can see and hear, they can both record and transmit the data over the Internet. Now consider all the other amazing new tech we use every day. This means your personal privacy is gone forever.


Getting Banned From Riding In AI Self-Driving Cars For The Rest Of Your Entire Life

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People are increasingly getting onto those banned no-fly types of lists, which could happen with ... [ ] self-driving cars too. People keep getting banned for doing the darndest and seemingly dumbest of acts. Oftentimes getting banned for the rest of their entire life. You might have heard or seen the recent brouhaha in major league baseball when a spectator in Yankee Stadium seated above leftfield opted to throw a baseball down onto the field that then struck the Boston Red Sox player Alex Verdugo in the back. He was not hurt, but you can imagine the personal dismay and shock at suddenly and unexpectedly having a projectile strike him from behind, seemingly out of nowhere. Turns out that Alex had earlier tossed the same baseball up into the stands as a memento for a young Red Sox cheering attendee. By some boorish grabbing, it had ended up in the hands of a New York Yankees fan. Next, after some hysterical urging by other frenetic Yankees to toss it back, the young man did so. Whether this act of defiance was intentionally devised to smack the left-fielder is still unclear and it could have been a happenstance rather than a purposeful aim.


Tech trick

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

At dinner, I mentioned that I would like to go hiking in Patagonia. I never searched for these trips or anything like it. Yet, an hour later, I started getting ads on my phone about hiking adventures in Patagonia. While there's been no concrete evidence that your device's microphone is always listening, many Americans believe apps and sites routinely collect their voice data and use it for marketing purposes. Your smart speaker with its virtual assistant is always listening.


Sony's $2,900 robotic dog AIBO will soon be able to turn on microwaves, vacuum cleaners and more

Daily Mail - Science & tech

If you've ever thought turning on your microwave or vacuum cleaner was too hard, the solution may be as easy as spending $2,900 on a robotic dog that will do it for you. That's the operating theory behind Aibo, a robotic pet canine created by Sony, which was released last year. Sony has been continually adding features to Aibo and the latest features will allow the small robotic dog to communicate with a range of household smart appliances to help make life easier for its owners. According to a report from Gizmodo, Sony hosted a demonstration of the new features at the CEATEC show in Tokyo, Japan's largest IT and electronics trade show. One example showed Aibo communicating wirelessly with a smart microwave, telling it to start cooking a snack as soon as its owners come home from a long day.


Study Shows That Workers Now Trust A Robot More Than Their Managers

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The landscape of jobs will likely be dramatically transformed by AI in the coming years, and while some jobs will go by the wayside, other jobs will be created. It isn't clear yet how the nature of job automation will impact the economy, whether or not more jobs will be created than displaced, but it is obvious that those who work in the positions created by AI will need training to be effective at them. Displaced workers are going to need the training to work in the new AI-related job fields, but how can these workers be trained quickly enough to remain competitive in the workplace? The answer could be more AI, which could help personalize education and training. Bryan Talebi is the founder and CEO of the startup Ahura AI, which aims to use AI to make online education programs more efficient, targeting them at the specific individuals using them.


Artificial Intelligence & The Coming Global Empire

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A series of recent news stories have highlighted the massive advances made in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Yitu created a technology called Dragonfly. Dragonfly can search and analyze billions of photographs and locate a single person in a matter of seconds. Connected to cameras in the Shanghai Metro, it identified over 500 criminals in a three month period. It's so powerful it can recognize people wearing disguises.


Xconomy: Affectiva Launches A.I. Tech to Help Cars Sense Your Emotions

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Efforts to develop self-driving vehicles have largely focused on tracking what's going on outside the cars--think laser-based sensors to track other vehicles and digital mapping technologies to help navigate. Now, the industry is turning some of its attention to technologies that sense what's going on inside the vehicle. An initial goal is to better monitor driver alertness to help reduce the number of car accidents. But if fully autonomous vehicles one day become the norm, having technology that can understand the mood and preferences of passengers might enable the vehicle to automatically make adjustments that improve the riding experience. The jury is still out on whether vehicle occupants will prefer that to controlling changes themselves, but companies are trying to develop the technological capabilities anyway. "All of our technologies and our devices are becoming conversational and perceptual--even our car," says Rana el Kaliouby (pictured above), co-founder and CEO of Affectiva.


Children's toys can spy on them through cameras and microphones, warns FBI

The Independent - Tech

The FBI has issued a warning about internet-connected children's toys equipped with cameras and microphones. The agency's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) division has told parents to be wary of them, and is advising consumers to carry out a series of checks before purchasing one. It also says you should switch them off when they're not being used. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.