Microsoft's warning on Tuesday that an experimental AI Agent integrated into Windows can infect devices and pilfer sensitive user data has set off a familiar response from security-minded critics: Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and contained? As reported Tuesday, Microsoft introduced Copilot Actions, a new set of "experimental agentic features"
The study, "A.I. and The Writing Profession," collected response from 1,481 working writers comprised of 1,190 writing professionals and 291 fiction authors. The analysis was supplied by author and former Forrester Research executive Josh Bernoff. The majority of all writers think that AI poses both a threat and an opportunity. 61% reported using AI tools, which they say increase their productivity by an average of 31%, but only 7% of respondents have published AI-generated text.
AI companies are spending untold billions of dollars building out data centers to support behemoth AI models - and a return on their investments is still nowhere in sight. Valuations have soared well past the trillion-dollar mark, with AI chipmaker Nvidia becoming the world's most valuable company with a market cap that recently topped $4.5 trillion. But that's all, despite AI company revenues barely making a dent on balance sheets.
But rarely does the process go smoothly enough for prime time. The jury's still out on whether experienced programmers actually benefit from using AI coding assistants, and the tech's shortcomings are even more obvious when it's being relied on by untrained amateurs who openly embrace the whole shtick of working off mainly "vibes." Nothing illustrates that last point better than the fact that some veteran programmers are apparently now making a killing by fixing these AI-hallucinated disasters, which interviewed a few of these canny opportunists.
'When we sleep, our motor muscles are prevented from moving - a physiological state called atonia,' Anderson told the Daily Mail. 'It protects us from getting up and acting out our dreams and keeps us safely tucked up in bed. 'But if you start to wake up before your body moves out of atonia, you may experience an in-limbo state, half awake (yet also half dreaming) and unable to move. 'Although sleep paralysis only lasts a few seconds, the terrifying experience feels so real that you feel doomed.'
Google's Med-Gemini showcases advanced multimodal functions that potentially enhance workflows for clinicians, researchers, and patients, according to leaders Greg Corrado and Joëlle Barral.
