After officially entering the AI game in September 2023, Meta just scaled up its AI chatbot experiment. Some WhatsApp users have been able to play around with the company’s new AI assistant for a while now, and Meta’s AI upgrade was first introduced in beta in November last year. More functionalities appeared on users’ search … Read more
A vaccination clinic in Kafugumbah village, northwest Sierra Leone.Credit: Conor O’Donovan/Concern Worldwide Deploying mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics in rural areas of Sierra Leone increased vaccination rates sharply, according to an ambitious experiment involving 150 villages1. The effort is an outlier: many more studies examine vaccine hesitancy and misinformation than focus on vaccine access. “The investigators … Read more
Last week the development team at Midjourney made available its new web-based image creation user interface showing how the AI art generator is moving away from Discord. Available to Midjourney users with over 5,000 image creations the new web browser based AI art creation system within Midjourney features a number of controls, sliders and options … Read more
Imagine a world where artificial intelligence can mimic human behavior so closely that it’s hard to tell the difference between a virtual character and a real person. This is no longer the stuff of science fiction. A team of researchers, including Joon Sung Park, has made a significant stride in the realm of AI with … Read more