The worst part of travel is the planning: the faff of finding and booking transport, accommodation, restaurant reservations--the list can feel endless. To help, the latest wave of AI agents, such as OpenAI's Operator and Anthropic's Computer Use claim they can take these dreary, cumbersome tasks from befuddled travelers and do it all for you. But exactly how good are they are digging out the good stuff? What better way to find out than deciding on a last-minute weekend away. I tasked Operator, which is available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, with booking me something budget-friendly, with good food and art, and told it that I'd prefer to travel by train.

After Julia Dixon graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014, her family and friends asked for her help with the college application process. Dixon was happy to share her recently earned expertise about the world of higher education but soon realized how many parents and students in her community needed help and how hard it was for them to access that support. The ratio of college counselors to students in the US, according to the American School Counselor Association, is one for every 376 students. Many students don't have proper access to a college counselor to help them with admissions or pick which schools and areas of study might suit them best. Hiring a private college counselor is an option, but that can cost thousands of dollars.

Is it important that your lover be a biological human instead of an A.I. or a robot, or will even asking this question soon feel like an antiquated prejudice? This uncertainty is more than a transient meme storm. If A.I. lovers are normalized a little--even if not for you personally--the way you live will be changed. Does this notion disturb you? In the tech industry, we often speak of A.I. as if it were a person and of people as if they might become obsolete when A.I. and robots surpass them, which, we say, might occur remarkably soon.

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You can view art (e.g., at a museum). "To go from photographing the getaway to making the getaway, it's like art becoming reality," the photographer Gray Malin said the other day. He was sitting behind the wheel of a blue Range Rover, dressed in a denim shirt, white jeans, and raffia loafers, cruising up the 101 to his latest work: a house he has renovated in Montecito, California, in order to rent to visitors. "How I vacation is how I want you to vacation," he said. As an artist, Malin specializes in glossy portraits of the good life: beaches, boats, a plane landing in St. Bart's.

'The Big Weekend Show' analyzes the possibilities of artificial intelligence when it comes to influencing voters. ChatGPT has changed my life -- and yours, even if you don't use it as much as I do. You've probably noticed the new AI search bar in all the Meta apps, including Facebook and Instagram. It won't be long before all your most-used apps and services integrate chatbots. I'm giving one away to someone who tries my free daily tech newsletter.

Inferring contextually-relevant and diverse commonsense to understand narratives remains challenging for knowledge models. In this work, we develop a series of knowledge models, DiffuCOMET, that leverage diffusion to learn to reconstruct the implicit semantic connections between narrative contexts and relevant commonsense knowledge. Across multiple diffusion steps, our method progressively refines a representation of commonsense facts that is anchored to a narrative, producing contextually-relevant and diverse commonsense inferences for an input context. To evaluate DiffuCOMET, we introduce new metrics for commonsense inference that more closely measure knowledge diversity and contextual relevance. Our results on two different benchmarks, ComFact and WebNLG+, show that knowledge generated by DiffuCOMET achieves a better trade-off between commonsense diversity, contextual relevance and alignment to known gold references, compared to baseline knowledge models.

The competition to build the iPhone of artificial intelligence is heating up. On Tuesday, the technology startup Rabbit unveiled its contender: a small, orange, walkie-talkie style device that, according to the company, can use "AI agents" to carry out tasks on behalf of the user. In a pre-recorded keynote address shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Rabbit's founder Jesse Lyu asks the device to plan him a vacation to London; the keynote shows the device designing him an itinerary and booking his trip. He orders a pizza, books an Uber, and teaches the device how to generate an image using Midjourney. The gadget, called the Rabbit r1, is just the latest in an increasingly active new hardware category: portable AI-first devices that can interact with users in natural language, eschewing screens and app-based operating systems.

Haywood Talcove, the CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' Government division, told Fox News Digital that he believes there will be over $1 trillion in artificial intelligence-assisted fraud if U.S. doesn't act quickly. An Atlanta woman is wanted for attempting to deceive a travel insurance company by altering her son's medical records after he tested negative for COVID-19, authorities allege. Takeidra Davis, 37, purchased travel insurance for a planned vacation in January 2022, the Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire said. "In the policy, it clearly states that a dependent must be sick at the time of the trip in order to receive a refund," Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King said in a statement. "When Ms. Davis' son recovered and tested negative for COVID-19 the day before their vacation, the suspect altered her son's medical record to indicate a positive test result during the policy period."

This week, we're helping you round out your summer reading lists by asking some of our favorite authors to step in as Prudie for the day and give you advice. This is part of our Guest Prudie series. Today's columnist is American author and "King of Horror" Stephen King, whose renowned for his horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, including It, The Shining, Carrie, and many more. His iconic books and stories have been adapted into numerous films and television series--including The Boogeyman which was released just last month. His new novel, Holly, hits shelves this coming September.