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The Fort Worth Police Department spent almost $7,000 to send five police officers to four New York art institutions to investigate child pornography allegations against artist Sally Mann, whose photographs were on display in a group exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth earlier this year. In February, officers took a four-day trip to New York to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art—all of which have photographs by Mann in their collection—to gather information on the artist that might be pertinent to their…
An early-stage training agent (left) fails to keep its workers mining, a task that humans find trivial. After training (right), the agent performs more meaningful actions. source
Have you made a call into a contact center lately and gotten a prompt like this, “I’d like to text you a link to guide you through (your interaction). Is that all right?”This text-based response as part of a customer call isn’t restricted to any specific industry; the interaction might be a router return or an airline upgrade. Each customer interaction and resolution typically involves multiple steps and you could be talking to an automated agent or a live one. Whatever the case, when you agree to a link to guide you through the interaction, you are subsequently guided through…
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Provenance research is a cornerstone of museum practices driven by a responsibility to research the objects in its collection and to share this knowledge with its audience. Tracing an object’s history can unlock the details and histories of single collectors or even provide better understanding of entire civilizations. Until recently, however, provenance research has often been overlooked by the general public. But a wave of high profile restitution and repatriation cases at institutions around the world in…
Researchers from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), MIT’s Media Lab, the Brazilian university UFABC, and the pandemic prevention non-profit SecureBio have found that leading artificial intelligence models can outperform experienced, PhD-level virologists in troubleshooting complex laboratory procedures. The findings, detailed in a new study introducing the Virology Capabilities Test (VCT), demonstrate AI’s proficiency in specialized scientific tasks but also highlight serious dual-use concerns, suggesting these tools could lower the barrier for creating dangerous biological agents. The VCT benchmark, consisting of 322 questions and detailed further in its research paper, was designed specifically to measure an AI’s ability to assist…
Elon Musk’s Neuralink has officially installed its brain-chip interface (BCI) into a third human patient, and the individual shared a video this week detailing his experiences gaining control of external devices and regaining the ability to talk through the use of AI. On Monday, X user Bradford G Smith shared a video detailing his experience as the third person in the world to receive the Neuralink BCI, and as the first non-verbal patient and the first with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) to receive the implant. In the video, Smith details how the BCI works, how it’s less limiting than his…
Nubia Technolog unveils its latest AI-powered smartphone and tablet. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Chinese tech company Nubia Technology unveiled on Monday its latest artificial intelligence-powered smartphone and tablet, as the company aims to grab a bigger slice of the pie in the highly competitive consumer electronics market. The company”s flagship handset Z70S Ultra photographer edition has incorporated AI large language models such as DeepSeek and Doubao with an improved photography capacity, and intelligent voice assistant functionality supporting knowledge Q&A and cross-language communication. Its first consumer-grade tablet comes with a series of AI features covering document and image editing, while offering…