Trained

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Seemingly overnight, a yoga studio replaces a barbershop, a coffee café takes over a small grocery, and a multi-story apartment building looms where older single-family homes once stood. Such signs of gentrification can be jarring to longtime city residents. They know that by the time these physical upgrades have…

It’s no secret that Ryan Gosling is one of his generation’s best actors. With heart-wrenching performances in movies like Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, and La La Land (for which he got his second Academy Award nomination), he’s proved his versatility time and time again. Also, he sings in every one of those and shows off impressive vocal skills. In Barbie, he sings the impossibly catchy tune “I’m Just Ken,” which he will perform at the upcoming Oscars. So, is he a trained singer? The answer isn’t that…

As It Happens5:59Artist trains rats to take selfies to make a point about social mediaWhen Augustin Lignier built a photo booth for rats, he was really trying to point the lens at humanity.The French artist trained two pet store rodents to take selfies in exchange for sweet treats. But over time, he says, they started doing it purely for the pleasure. He says it's not unlike the way people engage with social media — at first for the likes, but eventually just to trigger a flood of feel-good chemicals in our brains. "It's…

 In a new research, an AI model was trained to learn words and concepts through the eyes and ears of a single child, using headcam video recordings from when the child was six months and through their second birthday.Researchers showed that the artificial intelligence (AI) model could learn a substantial number of words and concepts using limited slices of what the child experienced. Even though the video captured only one per cent of the child's waking hours, they said that was enough for genuine language learning. "By…

One does not simply wake up one morning and embody Amy Winehouse. According to vocal coach Anne-Marie Speed, Back to Black star Marisa Abela trained “like an athlete”” to transform into the “Valerie” singer.  In an interview with The Guardian, Speed opened up about the process of preparing Abela to play the lead in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s upcoming biopic. The two worked together between September 2022 and January 2023, when shooting started for the film.  In those months, Abela had to learn to sing, play the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) models can be trained to deceive and once a model exhibits deceptive behaviour, standard techniques could fail to remove such deception and create a false impression of safety, new research led by Google-backed AI startup Anthropic has found. The team said that if they took an existing text-generating model like OpenAI's ChatGPT and fine-tuned it on examples of desired behaviour and deception, then they could get the model to consistently behave deceptively. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with…

Most humans learn the skill of deceiving other humans. So can AI models learn the same? Yes, the answer seems — and terrifyingly, they’re exceptionally good at it. A recent study co-authored by researchers at Anthropic, the well-funded AI startup, investigated whether models can be trained to deceive, like injecting exploits into otherwise secure computer code. The research team hypothesized that if they took an existing text-generating model — think a model like OpenAI’s GPT-4 or ChatGPT — and…

By MATT O’BRIEN and HALELUYA HADERO, Associated Press Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built. Those same images have made it easier for AI systems to produce realistic and explicit imagery of fake children as well as transform social media photos of fully clothed real teens into nudes, much to the alarm of schools and…

There’s nothing better than being the fun aunt or uncle. You can spend the day playing with and spoiling the littlest members of the family before sending them back to mom and dad and avoiding all of the not-so-fun parts of parenting.But after one aunt realized that babysitting involved more than simply hanging out with her nearly 5-year-old nephew, she decided to draw the line. Below, you’ll find the full story of why she refuses to watch him until he’s potty trained, as well as a conversation with parenting expert…

Anti-abuse researchers had assumed that AI image generators get influenced by child abuse materials that exist deep inside the internet. However, a recent investigation has found that the datasets used to train these generators are loaded with such content…