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- Tiny Cars: ‘AMAZING!!!’
The first time I visited Japan, I couldn’t help noticing all of the things that it does better than the United States. I rode bullet trains that top out at 200 miles an hour and spotted vending machines that serve fresh fruits and vegetables. But the worst part was the car envy: Why are America’s city streets clogged with enormous SUVs and trucks when we could instead have the Suzuki Hustler?An adorably rugged little box of a car, the Hustler looks something like a Hummer, but is closer in size to a Smart car. The U.S. has nothing like it, especially not for the cost. The Hustler has four-wheel drive, a hybrid engine, and a shocking amount of storage space for your gear—not bad for about $12,000.The Hustler, and others like it, is a kei car: short for kei-jidosha, meaning “light vehicle.” Kei cars (pronounced kay) are a category of… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results
It is examining whether the tech giant did not offer "appropriate compensation" to web publishers. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Trump gives Nvidia green light to sell advanced AI chips to ChinaNvidia had been at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war between the US and China in recent months. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
- Is AI in recruitment a ‘race to the bottom’?AI helps jobseekers to apply for hundreds of roles, meanwhile employers use AI to filter them. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago
- The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI ActivistBefore Sam Kirchner vanished, before the San Francisco Police Department began to warn that he could be armed and dangerous, before OpenAI locked down its offices over the potential threat, those who encountered him saw him as an ordinary, if ardent, activist.Phoebe Thomas Sorgen met Kirchner a few months ago at Travis Air Force Base, northeast of San Francisco, at a protest against immigration policy and U.S. military aid to Israel. Sorgen, a longtime activist whose first protests were against the Vietnam War, was going to block an entrance to the base with six other older women. Kirchner, 27 years old, was there with a couple of other members of a new group called Stop AI, and they all agreed to go along to record video on their phones in case of a confrontation with the police.“They were mainly there, I believe, to recruit people who might be willing to… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.7 days ago
- Chatbots Are Surprisingly Effective at Swaying VotersIn the months leading up to last year’s presidential election, more than 2,000 Americans, roughly split across partisan lines, were recruited for an experiment: Could an AI model influence their political inclinations? The premise was straightforward—let people spend a few minutes talking with a chatbot designed to stump for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, then see if their voting preferences changed at all.The bots were effective. After talking with a pro-Trump bot, one in 35 people who initially said they would not vote for Trump flipped to saying they would. The number who flipped after talking with a pro-Harris bot was even higher, at one in 21. A month later, when participants were surveyed again, much of the effect persisted. The results suggest that AI “creates a lot of opportunities for manipulating people’s beliefs and attitudes,” David Rand, a senior author on the study, which was published today in Nature,… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.7 days ago
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