Google-developed Gemini says the Year of the Horse may “manifest as social restlessness, emotional outbursts or literal heat-related issues”. Photo: Getty Images

    Can chatbots tell fortunes or do they make them up out of thin AI-r?

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is unlikely to replace feng shui masters despite a growing trend of people turning to chatbots for fortune-telling, Hong Kong soothsayers have said, warning against blindly trusting such software as it may produce “dangerous” predictions. Feng shui masters told the South China Morning Post that such chatbots, trained on existing datasets, could…

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    Hong Kong watchdog warns against using Musk’s Grok AI bot to create indecent images

      Hong Kong watchdog warns against using Musk’s Grok AI bot to create indecent images

      Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has raised concerns over the potential misuse of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s company, warning that using its image-generation function to create indecent or malicious content could amount to criminal offences. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) issued a statement on Thursday…

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      Grokipedia is less an encyclopedia than an AI-mirror of Musk’s ideology

      When Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, his AI-generated encyclopedia intended to rival Wikipedia, it was not just another experiment in artificial intelligence. It was a case study in everything that can go wrong when technological power, ideological bias, and unaccountable automation converge in the same hands.  From collaboration to colonization  Wikipedia remains one of humanity’s most…

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      Elon Musk's xAI may have hired two researchers from Nvidia to build these new AI models

      Elon Musk’s xAI may have hired two researchers from Nvidia to build these new AI models

      Elon Musk‘s artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI, is hiring specialists to boost the development of “world models.” These are next-generation AI systems which are designed to understand and navigate physical environments. The San Francisco-based startup has hired two AI researchers from Nvidia to accelerate this effort. The move positions xAI alongside major rivals like Meta…

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