With the rise of large-language model (LLM) generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, one of the most in-demand new careers of 2024 is sure to be a prompt engineer. But what is that, exactly?
Let’s break it down. A “prompt” is a command given to elicit a response. An “engineer” is someone who builds things—whether that’s bridges or software. In the generative AI space, then, a prompt engineer is a person
Going into this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, pretty much everyone knew we’d be deluged with artificial intelligence announcements and products. But no one saw grills being this big at the show.
Traditionally the barbecue has not been an especially high-tech affair. Steaks are seared. Burgers are flipped. And briskets are cooked low and slow (no exceptions). But the advent of pellet grills, such as Pit Boss or Traeger, has sparked something of a revolution among gr
The way Blake Griffin sees it, he and Ryan Kalil have a simple mission when it comes to Mortal Media, the production house they founded in 2016: to make stuff they’d actually want to watch. “With streaming and the landscape of entertainment today, there’s so many mandates, there’s so many algorithms,” Griffin said during a panel with Fast Company at CES this week. “And we always go back to that first model that we once had: Would we want to watch this
Lost in translation? Or lost in automation? One thing is for sure, the translation industry is on the precipice of a massive change, in large part due to the advent of more powerful and ubiquitous artificial intelligence tools.
Late last month, a Reddit user claimed that the popular language-learning app Duolingo had “offboarded a huge percentage of its contractors who did translations.” The user added that “this is because they figured out that AI can do t
Over the past four years, the medical world has changed. A thermometer alone isn’t always the best way to determine if we are sick. And seeing a doctor can be a lot like a Zoom call with a coworker.
Now, a new gadget from Withings, the maker of smart healthcare devices (such as a smart scale and health monitoring watches), promises to let people get a much clearer picture of their health, without having to learn new skills or buy a cabinet full of medical equipment.
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Just two weeks into the new year, it’s already been a hard time for the tech sector. Any hopes that the layoffs that began in 2022 and accelerated in 2023 would begin to subside have yet to be realized as more major companies joined other big players, including Unity and Amazon, in laying off workers just after the start of the year.
The latest companies to announce layoffs include:
- Discord: The instant messaging and communications platform tol
Companies call them prompts. Techies call them nags. Around the internet, the rest of us just call them pop-ups—and we hate them.
Nevertheless, pop-up windows are an endless bane of online life, despite whatever game of whack-a-mole we might try to play with ad blockers, browser plug-ins, or advanced settings.
Some Google search users have recently been reminded of this inevitable fact with the sudden emergence of a pop-up screen that asks them to share their precis
For students taking biology at Arizona State University, their first lab experiences are likely to involve extraterrestrial life.
The university has ditched traditional intro bio labs—the kinds where students learn to use a pipette or dissect an animal—in favor of a virtual reality experience set in a VR wildlife sanctuary for alien beings. It’s part of a partnership between ASU and VR entertainment company Dreamscape Immersive, cofounded by Men in Black produce
Carrie Goldberg has been waiting a while for this moment. A New York-based victim’s rights attorney, Goldberg has spent years taking tech firms to court over a range of alleged abuses of their platforms—from stalking and harassment to revenge porn and other online privacy violations. It’s been a tough gig: For nearly three decades, the law known as Section 230 has shielded online platforms from lawsuits that try to hold them liable for the content that their users po
Apple is asking its developers and partners to describe its forthcoming Vision Pro headset as a “spatial computing” device—a smart move that allows the company to sidestep the tedious AR-VR-XR nomenclature.
For years “virtual reality” has been used to describe headgear that blocks out the outside world and displays digital images that can move with the user’s head motions. “Augmented reality” has meant smaller glasses that disp