Business

MGM Resorts sues FTC, agency chair over cyberattack investigation

MGM Resorts International filed a lawsuit April 15 against the Federal Trade Commission and its top officer, Chairwoman Lina M. Khan, claiming the agency violated the company's Fifth Amendment right to due process while investigating ...

Internet

ChatGPT: the promises, pitfalls and panic

Excitement around ChatGPT—an easy to use AI chatbot that can deliver an essay or computer code upon request and within seconds—has sent schools into panic and turned Big Tech green with envy.

Machine learning & AI

Improve machine learning performance by dropping the zeros

KAUST researchers have found a way to significantly increase the speed of training. Large machine learning models can be trained significantly faster by observing how frequently zero results are produced in distributed machine ...

Robotics

Human fondness, faith in machines grows during pandemic

People are not very nice to machines. The disdain goes beyond the slot machine that emptied your wallet, a dispenser that failed to deliver a Coke or a navigation system that took you on an unwanted detour.