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KARACHI: How can GPT4 be helpful to a judge in the judicial decision-making process? This cutting-edge question, recently posed by an additional district and sessions judge hearing a juvenile suspect’s bail application, merely hints at people’s fascination with the possibilities that artificial intelligence opens up to professionals in all walks of life. Although ChatGPT and its counterparts have been dominating …

Twitter Inc CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the social media company is “roughly breaking even”, as most of its advertisers have returned and its aggressive cost-cutting efforts have started bearing fruit after massive layoffs. Musk, in an interview with BBC broadcast live on Twitter Spaces, said Twitter has about 1,500 employees now, a sharp decline from “just under 8,000 …

All new artificial intelligence (AI) products developed in China will be required to undergo a “security assessment” before being released to the public, a sweeping new draft law by the country’s internet regulator showed on Tuesday. “Before providing services to the public that use generative AI products, a security assessment shall be applied for through national internet regulatory departments,” the …

KUWAIT CITY: A Kuwaiti media outlet has unveiled a virtual news presenter generated using artificial intelligence, with plans for it to read online bulletins. “Fedha” appeared on the Twitter account of the Kuwait News website as an image of a woman, her light-coloured hair uncovered, wearing a black jacket and white T-shirt. “I’m Fedha, the first presenter in Kuwait who works with …

ISLAMABAD: Google has restricted personal loan apps from accessing contacts or photos of their users in Pakistan. In its April 2023 policy update, the platform mandated the apps in Pakistan to submit country-specific licensing documents to prove their ability to provide personal loans. Google said it was updating the “Personal Loans Policy” to stop the apps from accessing users’ contacts …

PARIS: Jos Avery was given a camera almost four decades ago, sparking a lifelong fascination with photography. But last September he found a new creative outlet, one that led him to deceive thousands of people: the artificial intelligence programme Midjourney, which generates wild and wonderful images from brief text instructions. “Soon after starting with Midjourney, I became obsessed with the …

Emirates Telecommunications Group Company (etisalat by e&) announced on Monday its decision to buy a $400 million stake in the Super App developed by Uber Technologies and its subsidiary Careem. With this move, e& will become a majority shareholder in Careem’s Super App alongside Uber and all three of Careem’s co-founders, a statement issued by the ride-hailing company said. Super …

PARIS: Jos Avery was given a camera almost four decades ago, sparking a lifelong fascination with photography. But last September he found a new creative outlet, one that led him to deceive thousands of people: the artificial intelligence programme Midjourney, which generates wild and wonderful images from brief text instructions. “Soon after starting with Midjourney, I became obsessed with the …

Chinese search engine giant Baidu, has filed lawsuits against “relevant” app developers and Apple over fake copies of its Ernie bot app available on Apple’s app store. The company’s artificial intelligence powered Ernie bot, launched last month, has been touted as China’s closest answer to the U.S.-developed chatbot ChatGPT. Baidu said it had lodged lawsuits in Beijing Haidian People’s Court against the developers …

SAN FRANCISCO: A California Tesla owner sued the electric carmaker in a prospective class action lawsuit accusing it of violating the privacy of customers. The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California came after Reuters reported on Thursday that groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images …