Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Autonomous cars have been hitting public roads in a handful of cities around the United States, but the driverless phenomenon has raised one particularly perplexing question: How do we keep those driverless cars in check when they break traffic laws? NBC really delved into the matter this week. What’s The … Read more
Photo: Josh Lefkowitz (Getty Images) The Chevrolet Blazer EV has only just hit the hit the market, but it already has a nasty reputation of faulty software issues that left one journalist stranded at a charging station and another review site logging one fault after another. As a result, General Motors has issued a stop … Read more
If 2022 was the year the generative AI boom started, 2023 was the year of the generative AI panic. Just over 12 months since OpenAI released ChatGPT and set a record for the fastest-growing consumer product, it appears to have also helped set a record for fastest government intervention in a new technology. The US … Read more
Every year since the release of the new Suzuki Jimny in 2019, Japanese tuning company DAMD has released body kits and other styling parts for the tiny SUV that make it look older and more retro or like other off-roaders such as the Mercedes-Benz G-wagen and Toyota Land Cruiser. For the 2024 Tokyo Auto Salon, … Read more
Photo: Nic Coury/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Each year, I’ve taken to asking you fine readers of Jalopnik to peer into your crystal ball and tell me just what you think is going to happen in the automotive world for the upcoming year. From the painfully true (nope, car prices still aren’t normal) to the hilariously incorrect … Read more
Andersen and Lensky of Google disagree. They do not think the experiment demonstrates a topological qubit, because the object cannot reliably manipulate information to achieve practical quantum computing. “It is repeatedly stated explicitly in the manuscript that error correction must be included to achieve topological protection and that this would need to be done in … Read more
AnitaB.org CEO Brenda Wilkerson speaks on a panel with Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland at the 2019 Grace Hopper conference. Shortly after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in 2020, Google was among many tech companies that set up new programs aimed at supporting Black employees. The goal, CEO Sundar Pichai … Read more
Ilya Sutskever, one of the leading AI scientists behind ChatGPT, reflects on his founding vision and values. In conversations with the film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei as he was developing the chat language model between 2016 and 2019, he describes his personal philosophy and makes startling predictions for a technology already shaping our world. Reflecting on his … Read more
Google plans to restrict the types of election-related questions its generative artificial intelligence (AI) products, including the AI-powered chatbot Bard, will return responses to ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The tech giant will begin restricting responses to such queries early next year “out of an abundance of caution on such an important topic,” it … Read more
Joseph Jerome, who left privacy advocacy to work on Meta’s augmented reality data policies for two years before being laid off in May, says he grew to appreciate how consent decrees force companies to work on privacy. They add “checks and balances,” he says. But without clear privacy protection rules from lawmakers that bind every … Read more
