Netflix Buys Ready Player Me, an Avatar-Creation Developer, to Let Users Make Their Own Gaming Personas

Netflix will soon let customers make their own customized gaming avatars through the acquisition of Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation platform.

AI chatbots like ChatGPT can copy human traits and experts say it’s a huge risk

Scientists have developed the first validated personality test for AI chatbots and found that popular models can adopt ...
Futurism

If You Turn Down an AI’s Ability to Lie, It Starts Claiming It’s Conscious

Very few serious experts think today’s AI models are conscious, but many regular people feel differently about the bots, which are designed to foster emotional connection to keep engagement up. Users ...
The New York Times

NFL MVP odds: Matthew Stafford, Drake Maye turn it into a two-player race

Matthew Stafford is the clear MVP favorite with only New England's Drake Maye close in the odds. Ronald Martinez / Getty Images Significant movement in the NFL MVP race over the last four weeks has ...
PC Gamer

Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player

Video playback on old computers was a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred ...
AOL

Ceremonial Puck Drop Turns Into Player Getting Bitten By Police Dog At Hockey Game

Of course, this happened in hockey, and of course, it happened in Russia. A KHL hockey player was bitten by a police dog Thursday during a ceremonial puck drop prior to a game between CSKA Moscow — ...
PC Gamer

'No one leaves'—one Arc Raiders player has devoted themselves to turning Stella Montis into an inescapable maze, revelling in the cries of stuck players: 'I am the engineer ...

Third Person Shooter Arc Raiders devs are uplifted by how kind players have been to one another, but admit 'we're way worse people than the community' when it comes to engaging in PvP Third Person ...
Reuters

Intuit strikes $100 million deal to integrate OpenAI models into financial tools

Nov 18 (Reuters) - Intuit (INTU.O), opens new tab said on Tuesday it has signed a multi-year deal worth more than $100 million with OpenAI to use the ChatGPT maker's artificial intelligence models to ...
U.S. News & World Report

Intuit Strikes $100 Million Deal to Integrate OpenAI Models Into Financial Tools

(Reuters) -Intuit said on Tuesday it has signed a multi-year deal worth more than $100 million with OpenAI to use the ChatGPT maker's artificial intelligence models to power AI agents across its apps ...
Wall Street Journal

How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party

Six years ago, after watching my circle of friends surrender one too many evenings to insurance wrangling and doctor portals and DMV confusion, I emailed them a proposal: Come over next Tuesday. Grab ...
Digi Times

Silicon Valley startups turn to Chinese AI models amid performance and cost benefits

Several Silicon Valley startups and venture capitalists are increasingly adopting Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models for their products and services, citing practical advantages such as ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Multi-Turn Attacks Expose Weaknesses in Open-Weight LLM Models

A new report has revealed that open-weight large language models (LLMs) have remained highly vulnerable to adaptive multi-turn adversarial attacks, even when single-turn defenses appear robust. The ...