Interesting Engineering

Scientists create perfectly random numbers using entangled quantum chips for first time

Two quantum chips linked through a 30-meter cooled tube enabled scientists to create certified perfectly random numbers.ETH Zurich Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method to generate what ...
Ars Technica

AI put “synthetic quotes” in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.

I actually wonder if online gambling and now LLMs are, like video games for my generation, exposing people who have addictive personalities but who have avoided substance abuse for one reason or ...
Ars Technica

AI put “synthetic quotes” in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.

Journalist and author Steven Rosenbaum has more reasons than most to distrust AI. His new book, The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, is all about “how Truth is being bent, blurred, and ...
PC Magazine

I Asked AI to Generate Passwords. They're So Bad, It's Scary

We wouldn't blame you for assuming that AI, being a computer, would be better at generating passwords than a human. After all, people use AI to do everything from writing their emails to generating a ...
The Verge

Penguin Random House is suing OpenAI.

The publisher filed a lawsuit in Munich last week, accusing OpenAI of violating copyright laws after ChatGPT allegedly copied a popular German book series, according to The Guardian: In response to ...
Yahoo

‘Shout Quotes’ Are So Confusing — And You Might Be Using Them Without Even Realizing

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An errant set of quote marks can completely change a sentence’s meaning. For instance, a Post-It that reads “I’m ‘sorry’ for ...
AOL

‘Shout Quotes’ Are So Confusing — And You Might Be Using Them Without Even Realizing

An errant set of quote marks can completely change a sentence's meaning. For instance, a Post-It that reads "I'm 'sorry' for eating your leftovers!" from your roommate suggests your roommate isn't ...
cjr.org

Did I Really Say That?

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Three weeks ago, a Dutch freelancer named Menno van den Bos contacted CJR and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism to tell us ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Random Forest Regression Using C#

Random forest regression is a tree-based machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. A random forest is a collection (ensemble) of simple regression decision trees that are trained ...
Wired

Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans

An ongoing and heated dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic is raising new questions about how the startup’s technology is actually used inside the US military. In late February, Anthropic ...
news.crunchbase

Exclusive: Rebar Lands $14M To Help HVAC Suppliers Generate Quotes Faster With AI

Rebar, a startup building an AI operating system for commercial HVAC suppliers, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Founded in October 2024, Rebar ...