NCSoft sues Kakao Games for allegedly copying its ‘Lineage 2M’ game

Apr 06, 2023 09:42 am UTC| Business Technology

NCSoft Corporation has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Kakao Games. The company alleged that the video game subsidiary of the Kakao Group copied its popular online game title, Lineage 2M. NCSoft also...

Calls to regulate AI are growing louder. But how exactly do you regulate a technology like this?

Apr 06, 2023 07:55 am UTC| Technology

Last week, artificial intelligence pioneers and experts urged major AI labs to immediately pause the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. An open letter penned by the Future of Life...

Astronomers used machine learning to mine data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope: what they found

Apr 06, 2023 07:19 am UTC| Technology

New telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution are being unveiled around the world and beyond. Among them are the Giant Magellan Telescope under construction in Chile, and the James Webb Space Telescope,...

Don't fret about students using ChatGPT to cheat – AI is a bigger threat to educational equality

Apr 06, 2023 07:18 am UTC| Technology

Schools and universities are panicking about artificial intelligence (AI) and cheating. But AI presents far more significant threats to equity in education. Fears of cheating typically arise from concerns about...

ChatGPT's greatest achievement might just be its ability to trick us into thinking that it's honest

Apr 06, 2023 06:29 am UTC| Technology

In American writer Mark Twains autobiography, he quotes or perhaps misquotes former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as saying: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. In a marvellous...

Samsung wearables get Peloton app integration

Apr 05, 2023 23:59 pm UTC| Sports Health Economy Technology

The Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 4 devices will soon have access to the Peloton watch app, which connects directly to Pelotons Bike, Bike+, Tread, Row, and Guide with just a click. The app promises to give users more...

Regulating AI: 3 experts explain why it's difficult to do and important to get right

Apr 05, 2023 13:39 pm UTC| Technology

From fake photos of Donald Trump being arrested by New York City police officers to a chatbot describing a very-much-alive computer scientist as having died tragically, the ability of the new generation of generative...