Brett Venter

1 week ago | stuff.co.za | Brett Venter

You know that dystopian vision of deserted streets with drones blaring out messages warning you to stay in your home? DJI’s new Zenmuse V1 speaker accessory for drones has made it a purchasable-at-retail possibility. Not that you’re likely to buy one of these, unless you’ve got a DJI Matrice 350 RTK and Matrice 300 RTK drone lying around. The speaker is aimed at enterprise customers — the sorts of people who use investor or taxpayer money to fly buzzing aircraft around for various purposes.

1 week ago | stuff.co.za | Brett Venter

Chinese researchers have published a paper on Nature Machine Intelligence outlining a project that lets blind users navigate the world more effectively. The wearable device, or collection of them, processes multiple inputs via an AI algorithm and generates prompts that tell the wearer what’s coming up.

1 week ago | stuff.co.za | Brett Venter

Are you a South African app developer working… well, anywhere in the world? We want to hear from you. Stuff‘s annual App Awards is currently accepting entries from local companies and independent developers across a range of business and entertainment categories. Do you have what it takes to push out the competition? The entry process is simple — fill out the form below and consider yourself entered. We’ll handle the rest of it. At the end of the process is… well, an award.

1 week ago | stuff.co.za | Brett Venter

Artificial intelligence that remembers interactions is an idea whose time has come. OpenAI is doing it, and soon WhatsApp will too. Not the Meta-owned messaging platform specifically, but the embedded Meta AI that we’re certain every one of the billions of users is availing themselves of. Right? The feature turned up in a recent Android beta of the popular messaging app (version 2.25.11.13, specifically), after it was sighted in an earlier version of WhatsApp.

1 week ago | stuff.co.za | Brett Venter

Some folks reckon dolphins are as smart as humans. We reckon they’re smarter. They get to spend all day at the ocean. DolphinGemma, a new AI project from the friendlier depths of the rotting husk of Google, hopes to settle the question once and for all. How? By asking the dolphins, obviously. Researchers haven’t considered what to do if it turns out these aquatic mammals are colossal liars, but DolphinGemma could let us find out what they’re saying — even if it isn’t true.