The Unicode Consortium has announced that it’s adding what’s essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as “Hairy Creature” alongside a selection of other fun new emoji options in Unicode 17.0. It might seem strange that a consortium of companies as powerful as Apple, Google and Microsoft would practically subtweet one …
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Sources: Big Ten refuses College Football Playoff compromise without SEC schedule change
ATLANTA –The Big Ten will not back off its preferred College Football Playoff format, guaranteeing the league four automatic qualifiers, unless the SEC decides to add a ninth conference game, sources told On3. “There’s no way (Big Ten commissioner) Tony (Petitti) moves off four AQs,” a source said. With the Big Ten continuing to support the four AQ format and …
Read More »Trump administration refuses to turn over court-ordered RIF list
The Trump administration is continuing to keep the details of agencies’ reorganization and staff reduction plans out of the public eye, according to court documents the government’s lawyers filed on Monday. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston last week ordered the Trump administration to submit a list of the 40 reduction-in-force actions across 17 agencies that government officials told the …
Read More »Google’s AI Refuses to Even Play Chess Against 1977 Atari, After Hearing What It Did to Other Cutting-Edge AIs
The thing that AI models apparently fear the most? A game console released nearly fifty years ago. We are referring, of course, to the inimitable Atari 2600. Last month, the iconic system embarrassed the AI industry after it absolutely rinsed ChatGPT at a simple game of chess. It was a clash between a machine released in 1977, with 128 bytes …
Read More »Gemini AI refuses to play chess with Atari after hearing ChatGPT lost
In Murderbot, an Apple TV Plus action dramedy that’s quite fun to watch, the main character is an android that manages to go rogue, essentially becoming free. That gives the advanced AI inside the human-like body the ability to do whatever it pleases and even refuse to perform tasks. But, of course, it can’t actually do that, or the humans …
Read More »Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the Atari 2600 • The Register
Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs. Robert Caruso, the infrastructure architect who pitted Atari Chess and its feeble hardware against ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, told The Register readers have asked him if Google’s Gemini could do any better. “The question intrigued me because, while …
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