Step into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab in Cambridge, US, and the future feels a little closer. Glass cabinets display prototypes of weird and wonderful creations, from tiny desktop robots to a surrealist sculpture created by an AI model prompted to design a tea set made from body parts. In the lobby, an AI waste-sorting assistant named …
Read More »“Stupidity.” “Very poor due diligence.” “Someone who is a fool.” On Monday, a Manhattan judge used all of these terms to describe the JPMorgan Chase bankers who fell victim to a fraud perpetrated by fintech entrepreneur Charlie Javice. You don’t often hear a sentencing judge taunt a fraud victim like this — not that it mattered to his bottom line. …
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It’s alive! It’s at the Venice Film Festival! But it’s not a cautionary tale about artificial intelligence. Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein,” starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, follows a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a monstrous creature to life, only for the experiment to lead to the destruction of them both. Though it’s a timely tale about hubris, corruption …
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