• Standardized AI Performance Test, Tested Out by New AI Startup

    A new startup is looking to create a standardized test for AI performance. A new startup, Vals. ai, is looking to create a standardized test for measuring artificial intelligence and large language models, intending to create a universal way of testing out AI in specific aspects, as reported by Bloomberg.

  • World's first beauty pageant for AI women is announced: 'Miss AI' contest will see computer-generated ladies face off in tests of beauty, technology and social-media clout

    The world's first beauty pageant exclusively for AI-generated women has been announced, with competitors facing off in tests of beauty, technology and social-media clout.

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    Apple's new AI model could understand your home screen and supercharge Siri

    Despite not launching any AI models since the generative AI craze began, Apple is working on some AI projects. Just last week, Apple researchers shared a paper unveiling a new language model the company is working on, and insider sources reported that Apple has two AI-powered robots in the works. Now, the release of yet another research paper shows Apple is just getting started. On Monday, Apple researchers published a research paper that presents Ferret-UI, a new multimodal large language model...

  • Apple's iOS 18 AI will be on-device preserving privacy, and not server-side

    Apple's AI push in iOS 18 is rumored to focus on privacy with processing done directly on the iPhone, that won't connect to cloud services. Siri is expected to get a big upgrade with iOS 18 Over the past few months, we've heard a lot about Apple's endeavors in Artificial Intelligence and the features it aims to introduce later this year with iOS 18 and macOS 15. Various sources have all claimed that Apple would introduce AI-related enhancements. It looks like the initial batch of...

  • Air Force secretary will test flight AI-operated fighter jet

    WASHINGTON >> The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet of more than 1,000 autonomously operated drones, and later this spring its top civilian leader plans to climb into an artificial intelligence-operated warplane and let it take him airborne.

  • Apple's new AI model could help Siri see how iOS apps work

    Apple's Ferret LLM could help allow Siri to understand the layout of apps in an iPhone display, potentially increasing the capabilities of Apple's digital assistant. A ferret in the wild [Pixabay/Michael Sehlmeyer] Apple has been working on numerous machine learning and AI projects that it could tease at WWDC 2024. In a just-released paper, it now seems that some of that work has the potential for Siri to understand what apps and iOS itself looks like. The paper, released by Cornell...

  • JP Morgan drops Apple target price over questions on when AI iPhone will launch

    Investment firm JP Morgan predicts that Apple will introduce AI with the 2025 iPhone 17 Pro, and has dropped its current price target to $210 partly as a result. Apple CEO Tim Cook JP Morgan trimmed its Apple price target from $225 to $215 in February 2024, citing declining iPhone demand in China. Part of the new drop to $210, announced in a note seen by AppleInsider, is around the best time to get back into Apple stock ahead of the expected AI iPhone. The investment firm thinks that...

  • Apple teaching an AI system to make sense of app screens – could power advanced Siri

    An Apple research paper describes how the company has been developing Ferret-UI, a generative AI system specifically designed to be able to make sense of app screens. The paper is somewhat vague about the potential applications of this – likely deliberately so – but the most exciting possibility would be to power a much more advanced Siri more

  • Next two quarters may be tough, but iPhone 16 & AI will return Apple to growth

    Investment firm Wedbush says it is sticking to its $250 Apple price target and that issues such as declining sales in China will be short term because of pent-up demand for the iPhone 16 range. Tim Cook at a game tournament in Apple Taikoo Li, Chengdu Wedbush first raised its Apple price target to $250 in December 2023, just ahead of the peak holiday season. The company described Apple then as resilient, and in March 2024 said it was keeping its price target despite recognizing that...

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    Miss AI Is Here! AI-Generated Contestants Will Compete for the Title in World's First AI Beauty Pageant

    Miss AI is set to be the world's first AI beauty pageant. AI-generated contestants will compete for cash prizes and be assessed by a panel of judges — some of which are AI-generated themselves.

  • AI-Operated Fighter Jet Will Fly Air Force Secretary In Test Of Future Drone Warplanes

    The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet more than 1,000 autonomously operated drones, and later this spring its top civilian leader plans to climb into one of those artificial intelligence-operated warplanes and let it take him airborne. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told senators on Tuesday […]

  • AI-Operated Fighter Jet Will Fly Air Force Secretary in a Test of Military's Future Drone Warplanes

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet more than 1,000 autonomously operated drones, and later this spring its top civilian leader plans to climb into one of those artificial intelligence-operated warplanes and let it take him airborne. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told […]