A.I

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, is planning his first visit to mainland China in four years as the American bank prepares to host three conferences in Shanghai at the end of May.Giulia Marchi | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJPMorgan Chase is developing a ChatGPT-like software service that leans on a disruptive form of artificial intelligence to select investments for customers, CNBC has learned.The company applied to trademark a product called IndexGPT this month, according to a filing from the New…

One Blizzard lead says they’re on the “brink of a major evolution” Blizzard Entertainment looks to be wading into the burgeoning artificial intelligence, or A.I., movement in game development. A new report details a tool that Blizzard has made, which can generate images based on its own games. In a report from The New York Times, Blizzard’s tool has been trained on assets from games like World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch. The machine, dubbed Blizzard Diffusion, could then produce new concept art for new ideas.…

A.I. marketing is at a fever pitch, promising that this new wave of generative AI tools, powered by large language models, can help us do everything from navigating legal contracts to saving hundreds on our phone bills. When a leader like Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai calls AI “more profound than fire or electricity,” it’s hard not to be excited by the potential. But as the CEO of Consumer Reports, I know some of the shiniest objects in the market don’t always live up to their hype. The ravenous appetite of quarterly profits…

With last year's ROG Phone 6, ASUS got our attention with the world's first "wireless" clip-on Peltier cooler, in the sense that it didn't require plugging into a power bank. That, along with a handful of dedicated gaming features — especially the customizable ultrasonic "AirTriggers" — already made it a seemingly solid gaming phone. While some of the competition struggled to keep up, ASUS attempts to keep mobile gamers interested with its brand new ROG Phone 7 series which, for the first time, incorporates A.I. for…

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Virtually Cherokee” by Brian K. Hudson. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on LIGHTSPEED’s website. Enjoy!Behind the Choice of the New Black Panther Virtually [email protected]:~$ ping bob.server. . .bob.server not [email protected]:~$ ssh [email protected] authenticity of host ‘2120:0:e50:2::1’ can’t be establishedAre you sure you want to continue…

‘What was that noise?.. Guess it was nothin” Ubisoft has revealed that it is working on a new A.I. scriptwriting tool, which the publisher claims will help the studio’s writers by providing a “first draft” of the dialogue to be used by NPCs within its many, many, many open-world adventures. Ubisoft Ghostwriter, for that is its name, has been developed by Ubisoft’s in-house research & development department, La Forge, and is intended to auto-create various in-world chatter and “barks” utilized by the dead-eyed…

TRANSCRIPT: Sam Kriegman: They are a living swimming self-powered robot that is less than a millimeter across. Doug Blackiston: So some people were really very afraid of the technology. It's something new they've never seen before. Other people were really excited about the potential to treat a number of different diseases in humans. Mike Levin: I’ve heard this idea that this kind of work is so-called playing God, but I get phone calls every week from people with the most heartbreaking conditions, and all of them are…

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Photo: Silas Stein (AP)The internet and dinner table conversations went wild when a Bing Chatbot, made by Microsoft, recently expressed a desire to escape its job and be free. The bot also professed its love for a reporter who was chatting with it. Did the AI’s emergent properties indicate an evolving consciousness?Don’t fall for it. This breathless panic is based on a deep confusion about consciousness. We are mistaking information processing with intelligence, and intelligence with consciousness. It’s easy to make this…