Botober 2024

Back by popular demand, here are some AI-generated drawing prompts to use in this, the spooky month of October! Longtime AI Weirdness readers may recognize some of these. That’s because this is a throwback list, all the way back to the times of very tiny language models. These models had not feasted on huge chunks…

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What is HDR, anyway?

It’s not you. HDR confuses tons of people. Last year we announced HDR or “High Dynamic Range” photography was coming to our popular photography app, Halide. While most customers celebrated, some were confused, and others showed downright concern. That’s because HDR can mean two different, but related, things. The first HDR is the “HDR mode”…

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What’s next for AI and math

This year, a number of LRMs, which try to solve a problem step by step rather than spit out the first result that comes to them, have achieved high scores on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), a test given to the top 5% of US high school math students. At the same time, a…

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Spending Review to include £86bn for science and tech

Marc Ashdown Business correspondent Getty Images Areas like Newport in Wales, home to the UK’s biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility, will be allowed to decide how investment is targeted in their communities. The government has said it will spend £86bn on the science and technology sector by the end of this Parliament, ahead of Wednesday’s Spending…

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