Before printing presses, before paper itself, humans found ways to preserve their thoughts, beliefs, and stories on everything from clay tablets to papyrus scrolls and carefully prepared animal skins.

Any file on a computer is basically reduced to a binary code which in turn could be written as a text code. An image file is no exception to this. Since an image file has a form in a text code, you ...

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ChatGPT’s new image generator is going down a storm, and now it’s available to everyone for free. So, you might be on the lookout for ChatGPT image prompts that exploit the AI’s amazing new ability to ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Google’s AI-powered search feature, SGE (Search Generative Experience), is gaining some new skills, starting today. The AI feature, which introduces a conversational mode in Search, is now going to be ...

There are several methods for detecting whether a piece of text was written by AI. They all have limitations – and probably ...

Extract text from images on Android using 7 methods: Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s ...

Plus: A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your ...