Developer Bertrand Quenin recently released an open-source project called "Interpreter" that aims to provide real-time translation for Japanese retro games. The tool can capture Japanese text ...

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...

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Character.AI announced on Tuesday that it’s launching “Stories,” a new format that allows users to create interactive fiction that features their favorite characters. The feature comes as an ...

The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves. By Natallie Rocha and Kashmir Hill Natallie ...

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Main character syndrome is the perception that your life is a story or a movie where you’re the central character. A term that was born on social media, it’s not a true syndrome or mental disorder.

Having "main character energy" means acting as if your life is a movie. You're always on the verge of cinematic transformation, with a deeply aesthetic sense of self, perfectly timed lighting, and a ...

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Imagine if you could hide a secret message within a photo, and no one could tell by just looking at it. This is the magic of steganography—a powerful technique that allows us to embed secret ...

CEO Noam Shazeer coauthored the paper that invented transformers, a key technical advancement at the root of the AI boom, then led Google's developments of its chatbot systems with Daniel De Freitas, ...