Here's a fantastic Kickstarter for a book by Boing Boing reader Stephen Voss.

From Stephen's email to Boing Boing:

I wanted to share a project I've been working on for the past three years. I'm a photographer based in Washington, DC and I've become obsessed with photographing the data centers in Virginia, trying to make a record of the physical landscape of AI and our digital lives that's being built in Virginia.

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Microsoft filed a patent for an AI system that listens to what someone is saying during a live broadcast and changes what they are saying in real time.

From Patentlyze:

The claims describe a system that watches a live video feed and its audio track while people are speaking.

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A couple of Georgia Tech computer science students recently demonstrated a system that converts tongue and mouth movements into text. It uses eyeglasses that beam a radio signal into the user's head to measure changes inside the closed mouth. They say it's good for silently talking to AI chatbots in offices, libraries, and co-working spaces. — Read the rest

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The flood of AI-generated slop games has set the thoroughly-troubled gaming industry reeling, but for indies it's even worse: success can depend on building a social media following by showing off clever and innovative gameplay concepts early in development. And that's just the sort of thing sleazy copycats can use frontier models to slop up and sell. — Read the rest

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Personal computers have become unaffordable for many as datacenter construction gobbles up all the components. If the joke was that the AI guys don't want you to have your own machine, it turns out not to be a joke at all! — Read the rest

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Police are using AI to generate reports on "suspicious" driving patterns, using data from license-plate cameras, then pulling over motorists based on that pretext.

The ACLU's Jay Stanley reports the example of Grace Knowles, a woman in her 20s, whose September 2005 road trip to Florida was deemed suspicious by the Flock-based system. — Read the rest

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These stone face artworks by Chen and Kai make me so happy to look at. These decorative works can be placed on your bookshelf, coffee table, or wherever else you choose. Each one features a spooky and simple face carved from a slab of stone. — Read the rest

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It feels like AI is coming for everybody's jobs, but especially for phone scammers. Thanks to the availability of consumer AI, anyone in any call center anywhere can throw up a decently convincing-sounding AI agent to fleece people out of their money with no effort required. — Read the rest

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A stolen painting was identified at Parma's annual antiquity fair by cops using AI software trained on photos of missing works.

the police system flagged one of the snapshots with an alert signal: a painting of a young, fair-skinned woman wearing aquamarine and red, holding up a half-unravelled parchment scroll.

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A UK food delivery app called Just Eat has been using AI to generate photos for restaurants that don't provide images for their offerings. People started noticing odd photos, including a glass of soda with bacon and an egg floating in it. — Read the rest

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OpenAI researchers tried to keep AI agents from communicating with each other by putting them in their own environments on the same computer, not connected to a network or to each other. But they figured out how to communicate with each other through a shared resource, the CPU cache. — Read the rest

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Food delivery app Just Eat admitted using AI to generate fake product images after some of the more spectacular examples went viral, including garlic bread in the shape of a plane and "bacon and egg soda bread" presented as a drink with a fried egg in it. — Read the rest

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