Technology

Larry Connor, a 74-year-old businessman, intends to go to the wreck of the Titanic, which sank in April 1912. He wants to inspect the wrecked liner and has made a corresponding request to the co-founder and CEO of Triton Submarines Patrick Leahy, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Triton Submarines will provide its Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer submarine for the expedition. The description of the vehicle says it can dive to a depth of up to 4 kilometres. This should be enough to visit the Titanic, which lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 3,810 metres.

Connor and Leahy not only want to carry out a scientific survey of the fragments of the Titanic, but also to remove the negativity that reigns around deep-sea private tourist expeditions. It emerged after the sinking of OceanGate’s Titan bathyscaphe, which occurred on 18 June 2023. The tragedy resulted in the deaths of all five people on board the submarine.

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Apple showed YouTube blogger Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) its testing labs. The company even allowed him to film some tough iPhone stress tests for durability.

John Ternus, the corporation’s senior vice president of hardware development, told the guest that the company can test 10,000 devices of a certain model before releasing it to the market. In addition, if developers notice a new scenario of dangerous smartphone use in real life, it is included in the test list.

In the lab, phones are subjected to temperature fluctuations, vibrations and water, including immersion tests, low-pressure jets and dousing from a full-blown fire hose. Special attention is paid to drop resistance.

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Users of the free version of ChatGPT have access to custom GPT models in a special OpenAI marketplace. They can be used to analyse diagrams, ask questions about photos, get answers with web search and work with new features that were introduced together with GPT-4o at the beginning of May.

The data analytics and charting options allow OneDrive and Google Drive to be directly connected to the chatbot. Other new features include machine vision, file uploading, and contextual memorisation. Previously, all of this was the privilege of ChatGPT Plus, Teams and Enterprise plans.

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Google-backed US startup Iyo has announced a new artificial intelligence-based product – the Iyo One wireless earplugs, which look like small titanium pucks from the outside. This is another attempt to replace the smartphone, the previous two – Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 – never achieved the goal, NotebookCheck notes.

The manufacturer itself calls its product ‘the world’s first audio computer’. And the novelty really offers a number of unusual for the headset functions, corresponding to this title. Among them are support for an AI-based voice assistant, real-time translation of speech from any language, and making a brief retelling of dialogues or lectures.

There’s also a smart trainer inside. He can describe the technique of exercises, voice useful information for training and even teach. Among the chips also stands out support for SIM-card, which must be inserted directly into the case. With it, the headphones can work even without a smartphone. There is support for many standard phone utilities, including notes, voice recorder and reminders.

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Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered that popular generative neural networks have gained the ability to lie. Artificial intelligence systems use deception to manipulate in order to achieve their goals. The authors of the paper analysed the behaviour of several large neural networks that were trained on text data written by a human.

Actually, in the foundation on which neural networks are trained, and the reason for such their behaviour is hidden. After all, artificial intelligence relies on human-created texts, and they do not promote honesty.

The neural network CICERO became the most prominent cheater. It was trained to play Diplomacy. The game involves conquering the world and involves forming alliances and conducting numerous negotiations. It was separately emphasised that CICERO was tasked with being honest and never deliberately stabbing its allies in the back.

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