Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mstdn.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

Administered by:

Server stats:

13K
active users

mstdn.social: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.8

#aiassisted

20 posts6 participants5 posts today
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Ars Technica: How to draft a will to avoid becoming an AI ghost—it’s not easy. “Trained on the data of the dead, these tools, sometimes called grief bots or AI ghosts, may be text-, audio-, or even video-based. Chatting provides what some mourners feel is a close approximation to ongoing interactions with the people they love most. But the tech remains controversial, perhaps complicating […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/ars-technica-how-to-draft-a-will-to-avoid-becoming-an-ai-ghost-its-not-easy/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/ars-technica-how-to-draft-a-will-to-avoid-becoming-an-ai-ghost-its-not-easy/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: AI Rethought: RPI Researchers Propose a More Effective, Human-Like Approach. “As AI models grow ever larger, so do their costs and limitations. Researchers at RPI and City University of Hong Kong offer a potential solution: instead of expanding outward with more layers and data, they propose building upward — adding internal structure that mirrors a 3D […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/ai-rethought-rpi-researchers-propose-a-more-effective-human-like-approach-rpi/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/ai-rethought-rpi-researchers-propose-a-more-effective-human-like-approach-rpi/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Ohio State University: Why AI can’t understand a flower the way humans do. “Even with all its training and computer power, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool like ChatGPT can’t represent the concept of a flower the way a human does, according to a new study. That’s because the large language models (LLMs) that power AI assistants are based usually on language alone, and sometimes […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/the-ohio-state-university-why-ai-cant-understand-a-flower-the-way-humans-do/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/the-ohio-state-university-why-ai-cant-understand-a-flower-the-way-humans-do/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Estonian Research Council: Researcher explores visual media through the lens of machine vision. “In his doctoral thesis, Tallinn University School of Digital Technologies student Tillmann Ohm proposes a new way to explore large visual collections: through the lens of machine vision, focusing not on what an image is but on what it resembles. Instead of sorting images into fixed categories, the […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/estonian-research-council-researcher-explores-visual-media-through-the-lens-of-machine-vision/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/estonian-research-council-researcher-explores-visual-media-through-the-lens-of-machine-vision/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Engadget: How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews in web searches. “Google’s AI Overviews do not save me time. For one, I work for a tech blog and am therefore professionally curious as to whether or not the generated answers are correct, so I spend a few ticks figuring that out. (Answer: Sometimes, but not always!)”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/engadget-how-to-turn-off-googles-ai-overviews-in-web-searches/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/engadget-how-to-turn-off-googles-ai-overviews-in-web-searches/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Google Blog: Weather Lab is an interactive website for sharing Google’s AI weather models.. “Today Google DeepMind and Google Research are launching a public preview of Weather Lab, an interactive website for sharing our AIweather models, and debuting our newest experimental AI-based cyclone predictions. While still experimental, our goal is to continue to work on this technology to help […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/16/google-blog-weather-lab-is-an-interactive-website-for-sharing-googles-ai-weather-models/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/16/google-blog-weather-lab-is-an-interactive-website-for-sharing-googles-ai-weather-models/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Los Angeles Times: AI toys and games? Barbie maker Mattel teams up with OpenAI to create new products. “Mattel, the El Segundo toy maker behind Barbie and Hot Wheels, said Thursday that it’s teaming up with OpenAI, which created popular chatbot ChatGPT, to ‘bring the magic of AI to age-appropriate play experiences.’ The companies are planning to unveil their first product this year but […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/16/los-angeles-times-ai-toys-and-games-barbie-maker-mattel-teams-up-with-openai-to-create-new-products/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/16/los-angeles-times-ai-toys-and-games-barbie-maker-mattel-teams-up-with-openai-to-create-new-products/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Futurism: ChatGPT Is Telling People With Psychiatric Problems to Go Off Their Meds . “One particularly alarming anecdote, due to its potential for harm in the real world: a woman who said her sister had managed her schizophrenia with medication for years — until she became hooked on ChatGPT, which told her the diagnosis was wrong, prompting her to stop the treatment that had been helping […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/futurism-chatgpt-is-telling-people-with-psychiatric-problems-to-go-off-their-meds/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/futurism-chatgpt-is-telling-people-with-psychiatric-problems-to-go-off-their-meds/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Search Engine Roundtable: ChatGPT Mostly Source Wikipedia; Google AI Overviews Mostly Source Reddit. “A study from Profound of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity shows that while ChatGPT mostly sources its information from Wikipedia, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity mostly source their information from Reddit. The study looked at 30 million citations across ChatGPT, Google […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/search-engine-roundtable-chatgpt-mostly-source-wikipedia-google-ai-overviews-mostly-source-reddit/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/search-engine-roundtable-chatgpt-mostly-source-wikipedia-google-ai-overviews-mostly-source-reddit/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Register: Half of businesses rethink ditching humans for customer service bots. “Good news for consumers frustrated by wading through pools of AI treacle in search of customer service – businesses are reportedly turning back to human agents ‘amid AI integration challenges.’ In a report released by Gartner, half of the organizations it surveyed said that plans to significantly reduce […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/the-register-half-of-businesses-rethink-ditching-humans-for-customer-service-bots/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/the-register-half-of-businesses-rethink-ditching-humans-for-customer-service-bots/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Engadget: Wikipedia cancels plan to test AI summaries after editors skewer the idea. “Wikipedia is backing off a plan to test AI article summaries. Earlier this month, the platform announced plans to trial the feature for about 10 percent of mobile web visitors. To say they weren’t well-received by editors would be an understatement. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) then changed plans and […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/engadget-wikipedia-cancels-plan-to-test-ai-summaries-after-editors-skewer-the-idea/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/engadget-wikipedia-cancels-plan-to-test-ai-summaries-after-editors-skewer-the-idea/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>TechXplore: Debut of LLM-enabled humanoid robot at event met with mixed reviews by human attendees. “In studying the recordings, the research team found quite a mix of reactions to the robot—some found the robot with LLM abilities to be quite fascinating. Others found the robot left much to be desired, with some even offering ways to improve the robot and its skills. The team found that […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/techxplore-debut-of-llm-enabled-humanoid-robot-at-event-met-with-mixed-reviews-by-human-attendees/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/techxplore-debut-of-llm-enabled-humanoid-robot-at-event-met-with-mixed-reviews-by-human-attendees/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Bloomberg: Alibaba, Tencent Freeze AI Tools During High-Stakes China Exam. “China’s most popular AI chatbots like Alibaba’s Qwen have temporarily disabled functions including picture recognition, to prevent students from cheating during the country’s annual ‘gaokao’ college entrance examinations.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/bloomberg-alibaba-tencent-freeze-ai-tools-during-high-stakes-china-exam/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/bloomberg-alibaba-tencent-freeze-ai-tools-during-high-stakes-china-exam/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>MIT News: Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”. “In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex Kachkine, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply a digital restoration directly onto an original painting. The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/mit-news-have-a-damaged-painting-restore-it-in-just-hours-with-an-ai-generated-mask/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/mit-news-have-a-damaged-painting-restore-it-in-just-hours-with-an-ai-generated-mask/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>9to5 Google: Google testing Audio Overviews for Search results . “In Google Search, Audio Overviews will use Gemini models to ‘generate quick, conversational audio overviews for certain search queries.’ The idea is to provide a ‘lay of the land’ for topics you’re not familiar with. It can also be used to ‘absorb information whether you’re multitasking or simply prefer an audio […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/9to5-google-google-testing-audio-overviews-for-search-results/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/9to5-google-google-testing-audio-overviews-for-search-results/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Engadget: OpenAI adds the o3-pro model to ChatGPT today. “OpenAI is keeping up its rapid-fire pace of new AI releases. The company introduced the o3 and o4-mini models to its ChatGPT platform in April. At the time, the business promised that a pro model of the o3 was on the way, and that version became available today.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/14/engadget-openai-adds-the-o3-pro-model-to-chatgpt-today/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/14/engadget-openai-adds-the-o3-pro-model-to-chatgpt-today/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Ars Technica: AI Overviews hallucinates that Airbus, not Boeing, involved in fatal Air India crash . “When major events occur, most people rush to Google to find information. Increasingly, the first thing they see is an AI Overview, a feature that already has a reputation for making glaring mistakes. In the wake of a tragic plane crash in India, Google’s AI search results are spreading […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/14/ars-technica-ai-overviews-hallucinates-that-airbus-not-boeing-involved-in-fatal-air-india-crash/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/14/ars-technica-ai-overviews-hallucinates-that-airbus-not-boeing-involved-in-fatal-air-india-crash/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Tom’s Hardware: ChatGPT ‘got absolutely wrecked’ by Atari 2600 in beginner’s chess match — OpenAI’s newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic . “In a quite unexpected turn of events, it is claimed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT ‘got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level’ while playing Atari Chess. Citrix Architecture and Delivery specialist, Robert Jr. Caruso, discovered this gameplay skill […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/13/toms-hardware-chatgpt-got-absolutely-wrecked-by-atari-2600-in-beginners-chess-match-openais-newest-model-bamboozled-by-1970s-logic/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/13/toms-hardware-chatgpt-got-absolutely-wrecked-by-atari-2600-in-beginners-chess-match-openais-newest-model-bamboozled-by-1970s-logic/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Hollywood Reporter: SAG-AFTRA Suspends Strike Against Video Game Companies, Paving Way for Return to Work. “At the time the strike was called, SAG-AFTRA framed the move by saying that pay hadn’t kept pace with inflation and that it had multiple issues of contention with gaming companies’ use of AI in the contracts of performers who make money using their voices and/or likenesses. That […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/13/hollywood-reporter-sag-aftra-suspends-strike-against-video-game-companies-paving-way-for-return-to-work/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/13/hollywood-reporter-sag-aftra-suspends-strike-against-video-game-companies-paving-way-for-return-to-work/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Tulane University: New Tulane study finds generative AI can boost employee creativity—but only for strategic thinkers. “The employees who benefited most weren’t just using ChatGPT passively. They were actively thinking about how to approach their work, what problems they were trying to solve, and how best to use AI to support their goals. In short, they were skilled at managing their own […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/12/tulane-university-new-tulane-study-finds-generative-ai-can-boost-employee-creativity-but-only-for-strategic-thinkers/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/12/tulane-university-new-tulane-study-finds-generative-ai-can-boost-employee-creativity-but-only-for-strategic-thinkers/</a></p>
ExploreLive feeds
About