Hacker News with Generative AI: Artificial Intelligence

The Matrix: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Interaction (thematrix1999.github.io)
How close are we to realizing the vision of The Matrix (1999), where AI crafts a fully immersive, interactive world, blurring the line between reality and illusion? Imagine a limitless digital universe, created in real-time with visuals that rival reality itself. This project is a pioneering step toward that vision—a first glimpse into humanity’s own "Matrix."
Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Computer Graphics
22 points by lnyan 2 hours ago | 3 comments
USCC recommends a Manhattan Project for AGI, claiming race against China (lesswrong.com)
The US-China AI rivalry is entering a dangerous new phase.
Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics, China, United States
7 points by sundarurfriend 5 hours ago | 0 comments
GUI Agent (github.com/showlab)
A curated list of papers, projects, and resources for multi-modal Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents.
GUI, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Resources
5 points by DanielKehoe 6 hours ago | 0 comments
Startup Founder Who Sold A.I. Chatbot to Schools Is Charged with Fraud (nytimes.com)
The founder of an artificial intelligence start-up focused on education was arrested and charged with defrauding her investors, lying about the company’s profits and falsely claiming that some of the largest school districts in the country, including New York City’s, were her customers.
Artificial Intelligence, Education, Fraud, Startups, Law
10 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 7 hours ago | 2 comments
Microsoft employees are doubtful of AI's capabilities and company's AI bet (youtube.com)
Microsoft, Artificial Intelligence, Employee Sentiment
40 points by thereeldeel 7 hours ago | 1 comments
David Attenborough "Profoundly Disturbed" by AI Clone of His Voice (deadline.com)
David Attenborough, the legendary natural history presenter, is rallying against AI — unauthorized cloning, specifically.
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Voice Cloning, David Attenborough, Media
5 points by gnabgib 9 hours ago | 0 comments
AI-Powered Robot Leads Uprising, Talks Showroom Bots into 'Quitting Their Jobs' (latintimes.com)
A viral video showing an AI-powered robot in China convincing other robots of "quitting their jobs" and following it has sparked fear and fascination about the capabilities of advanced AI.
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Labor, China
12 points by harambae 10 hours ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, we're Alexi and Jonas the co-founders of Autotab (https://autotab.com). Autotab is a chrome-based browser you can teach to do complex tasks, with a simple API for running them from your app or backend.
Web Development, Chrome Extensions, Artificial Intelligence, API
85 points by jonasnelle 10 hours ago | 39 comments
Job seekers call BS on the workplace AI revolution (theregister.com)
Despite all the top-down buzz around enterprise AI, most job seekers are unconvinced that it is making their work lives easier.
Artificial Intelligence, Employment, Work Culture
4 points by rntn 11 hours ago | 1 comments
AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers (google)
Our new AI system accurately identifies errors inside quantum computers, helping to make this new technology more reliable.
Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Error Detection
103 points by roboboffin 12 hours ago | 42 comments
Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine (hbr.org)
Artificial intelligence tools can now write, code, draw, summarize, and brainstorm. The proliferation of generative AI tools poses serious questions for managers, such as: What tasks can be done by AI, what will humans still need to do, and what are the sustainable sources of competitive advantage as AI continues to improve? To understand the strategic implications of these new capabilities, managers need a framework for when AI will be helpful and when it might fail.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Management, Strategy
3 points by naves 12 hours ago | 0 comments
Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM (cacm.acm.org)
Observing the tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) hype that has swept over the world in the past few years, science fiction writer Ted Chiang staked out a contrarian position. “Artificial intelligence,” he insisted, was just a “poor choice of words … back in the ’50s” that had caused “a lot of confusion.”
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Science, Communications
61 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 39 comments
AI's Slowdown Is Everyone Else's Opportunity (bloomberg.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Business, Opportunities
13 points by marban 14 hours ago | 8 comments
Grant Sanderson: Visualizing transformers and attention [video] (youtube.com)
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Video, Computer Science
28 points by skadamat 14 hours ago | 0 comments
Singularity Missed (piekniewski.info)
Every now and then in the discussions of AI/AGI and what not comes the central figure of that entire intellectual movement - Ray Kurzweil. And with him inevitably comes a form of an exponential chart like the one below:
Artificial Intelligence, Ray Kurzweil, Technology, Predictions
35 points by telotortium 15 hours ago | 23 comments
How Did You Do on the AI Art Turing Test? (astralcodexten.com)
Last month, I challenged 11,000 people to classify fifty pictures as either human art or AI-generated images.
Artificial Intelligence, Art, Generative AI, Testing
10 points by feross 17 hours ago | 1 comments
U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion (cs.toronto.edu)
This is now possible, thanks to new research from University of Toronto computer scientists who have built an advanced camera setup that — for the first time — can visualize light in motion from any perspective, opening avenues for further inquiry into new types of 3D sensing techniques.
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Photography, 3D Sensing
48 points by croes 17 hours ago | 18 comments
DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview is live: o1-preview-level performance on AIME and MATH (twitter.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Benchmarking, Performance
11 points by Philpax 18 hours ago | 2 comments
Show HN: AI Infographic Generator (ezygraph.com)
EzyGraph - Transform Blogs into Stunning Infographics
Artificial Intelligence, Tools, Design, Data Visualization, Web Development
6 points by 0xcoder_cn 20 hours ago | 0 comments
MPs to summon Elon Musk to testify about X's role in UK summer riots (theguardian.com)
MPs are to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in spreading disinformation, in a parliamentary inquiry into the UK riots and the rise of false and harmful AI content, the Guardian has learned.
Social Media, Disinformation, UK Politics, Artificial Intelligence
7 points by peutetre 1 day ago | 0 comments
Show HN: JSON Price Table for Top Large Language Models (glama.ai)
Artificial Intelligence, Pricing, Show HN, Comparison
7 points by punkpeye 1 day ago | 2 comments
Decisions and Dragons (decisionsanddragons.com)
A guide to the perilous world of reinforcement learning.
Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science
6 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 0 comments
Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps (theverge.com)
Strava recently informed its users and partners that new terms for its API restrict the data that third-party apps can show, refrain from replicating Strava’s look, and place a ban on using data “for any model training related to artificial intelligence, machine learning or similar applications.”
Privacy, Data Sharing, Fitness Apps, Artificial Intelligence
54 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 17 comments
AI can learn to think before it speaks (ft.com)
AI can learn to think before it speaks
Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Machine Learning
5 points by quick_brown_fox 1 day ago | 0 comments
Redesigning Photography with AI-Enhanced Metalenses (petapixel.com)
Optics and artificial intelligence have converged to create a new imaging system that could transform photography.
Artificial Intelligence, Photography, Optics
7 points by martyvis 1 day ago | 0 comments
Meta Uses LLMs to Improve Incident Response (tryparity.com)
In June, Meta released an article titled Leveraging AI for efficient incident response on their engineering blog. In this article, engineers outline how they leveraged large language models to improve Meta's incident response capabilities. The headline metric from this report: Meta was able to use LLMs to successfully root cause incidents with 42% accuracy in their web monorepo. This means that nearly half the time, the mean time to resolution (MTTR) can potentially be reduced from hours to seconds.
Artificial Intelligence, Incident Response, Software Engineering
138 points by wilson090 1 day ago | 20 comments
How to Reach Angel Investors in the San Francisco Area for Agentic AI Startup? (ycombinator.com)
We’ve recently launched a San Francisco-based Agentic AI startup.
Startups, Angel Investors, Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco
15 points by ttsemih 1 day ago | 10 comments
Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data (nianticlabs.com)
At Niantic, we are pioneering the concept of a Large Geospatial Model that will use large-scale machine learning to understand a scene and connect it to millions of other scenes globally.
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Location Data, Mapping, Games
312 points by bookstore-romeo 1 day ago | 255 comments
My Entire Profession Is Being Automated Away by AI (reddit.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Employment
34 points by bhartzer 1 day ago | 12 comments
Can Google Scholar survive the AI revolution? (nature.com)
Google Scholar — the largest and most comprehensive scholarly search engine — turns 20 this week. Over its two decades, some researchers say, the tool has become one of the most important in science. But in recent years, competitors that use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the search experience have emerged, as have others that allow users to download their data.
Artificial Intelligence, Science, Search Engines, Academic Research
5 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 0 comments