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The ChatGPT threat may be bigger than we thought. At least, that seems to be what one of the “Godfathers of AI,” Geoffry Hinton, is worried about. Hinton, who spent decades building AI and helping machines learn, recently turned from his work as a pioneer in artificial intelligence and has now spent the past several months warning about the threat AI could pose to humankind. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree…

The business "has changed completely" for Cerebras, Feldman told ZDNET. "Rather than buying one or two machines, and putting a job on one machine for a week, customers would rather have it on 16 machines for a few hours" as a cloud service model.The result for Cerebras, is, "For hardware sales, you can do fewer, bigger deals, and you're gonna spend a lot of time and effort in the management of your own cloud."On Monday, at a supercomputing conference in Denver called SC23, Feldman and team unveiled the latest…

Salon, the left-leaning news and opinion website, is being sold to a team of French entrepreneurs behind the two-year-old Malta-based media company, Find.co, sources involved in the deal tell Fast Company.Salon was founded and staffed in 1995 by former San Francisco Examiner journalists as one of the early digital magazines. Known for its dispensations of news and opinion through a politically progressive (and often tabloid-y) lens, Salon was valued at $107 million when it went public in 1999. It was nearing bankruptcy…

Credit: Universal Robert Oppenheimer is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century's most famous physicist. He will forever be the "father of the atomic bomb" after the first nuclear weapon was successfully tested on July 16, 1945 in the New Mexican desert. The event brought to his mind words from a Hindu scripture:…

for just $160 -- 50% off the usual price of $320.This Pioneer model features 4K Ultra HD resolution, Dolby Vision, DTS Virtual-X Sound, and an Alexa-enabled remote for easy voice control. It's also got your usual streaming apps like Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube, Hulu, and Max built in (though you'll still need to pay for subscriptions).Overall, this is a great deal on a 4K TV if you're in the market for one of this size. You can check out all of the Prime Day Fire TV deals we've found here, too.Also: Best Prime Day…

University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “” for his pioneering research on neural networks, recently became the industry’s unofficial watchdog. He quit working at Google this spring to more freely critique the field he helped pioneer. He saw the recent surge in generative AIs like and as signs of unchecked and potentially dangerous acceleration in development. Google, meanwhile, was seemingly giving up its previous restraint as it chased competitors with products like its . At this week’s…

If you’re looking to add some modern software to your vehicle, one great way to do so is with a new digital media receiver. Pioneer is one of the premier name brands when it comes to car audio, and right now Best Buy has deals taking place on a variety of Pioneer digital receivers, each of which can upgrade your car’s dashboard and your own mobile digital experience. Discounts reach as high as $150, and sale prices are as low as $160. Several models also include free installation. If your vehicle was made before…

AI pioneer Yann LeCun. Jérémy Barande/Wikimedia Commons AI pioneer Yann LeCun has described talk of artificial intelligence (AI) posing an existential threat to humanity as “preposterously ridiculous.” Speaking to the BBC this week at an AI-focused event held in Paris by Meta, where he now works as the company’s chief AI scientist, Professor LeCun said: “Will AI take over the world? No, this is a projection of human nature on machines.” LeCun’s comments are in stark contrast to those made by Geoffrey Hinton and…

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In 1959, Carlos Lyra’s musical partner and lyricist Ronaldo Bôscoli said that bossa nova is a state of mind. Lyra thought he was talking nonsense. “Today, I’m actually agreeing with him,” he reflects more than six decades later, while vividly narrating a flashback of the genre’s early days in 1950s Rio de Janeiro. “With our guitars and bottles of homemade drinks, we used to go to the beach at sunset and stay singing through the night. The next day, we would do it all over again. It was a joyous, carefree atmosphere.”Lyra,…