Monthly Archives: November 2022

Here’s my guess: Neuralink will unveil a vision implant at today’s “show and tell”

Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink likes to give progress reports via theatrically staged events that it livestreams. Its next event, scheduled for tonight at 6 pm Pacific time, was announced by the company via a brief video invitation in which the words “please join us for show and tell” appeared as if they were…

While everyone waits for GPT-4, OpenAI is still fixing its predecessor

Buzz around GPT-4, the anticipated but as-yet unannounced follow-up to OpenAI’s ground-breaking large language model, GPT-3, is growing by the week. But OpenAI is not yet done tinkering with the previous version. The San Francisco-based company has released a demo of a new model called ChatGPT, a spin-off of GPT-3 that is geared towards answering…

San Francisco approves use of remote-controlled robots to kill suspects

Remote-controlled robots like this are often used by police departments to examine, disarm, or detonate bombs. | Image: DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images San Francisco’s police will be allowed to use remote-controlled robots to kill suspects. The city’s board of supervisors last night approved a controversial policy that lets police robots “be used as a…

Nintendo abruptly shuts down popular Super Smash Bros. tournament series

Enlarge / A massive Smash Bros. mural from a trade show. The organizers of a major Super Smash Bros. tournament series, the Smash World Tour, say that Nintendo has denied their request for an official license, cutting off months of negotiations “without any warning.” The decision has led to the cancelation of next year’s season…