Hallucinates

 Alphabet Inc.'s Google is rolling out a new version of its powerful artificial intelligence model that it says can handle larger amounts of text and video than products made by competitors.The updated AI model, called Gemini 1.5 Pro, will be available on Thursday to cloud customers and developers so they can test its new features and eventually create new commercial applications. Google and its rivals have spent billions to ramp up their capabilities in generative AI and are keen to attract corporate clients to show…

The upcoming year will be a busy one for democracy. Major elections will take place in the US, the EU, and Taiwan, among others. Just as the rollout of generative AI era is gathering pace in earnest — something some fear could prove detrimental to the democratic process. One of the main concerns about generative AI is that it could be used for the malicious spread of disinformation, or that models can make up false statements presenting them as fact, so-called hallucinations. A study from two…

via XLrator Media Horror fans tend to wear their inability to be genuinely terrified by onscreen scares as a badge of honor, but there aren’t many who made it through the brief 87 minutes of 2013’s Banshee Chapter without feeling at least the merest pang of fear. Allowed to slip way too far under the radar at the time of its initial release, writer and director Blair Erickson’s harrowing feature-length debut has slowly been crawling its way towards cult classic status for the last decade, based entirely on the…