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A Chinese businessman was scammed after a cybercriminal used artificial intelligence to impersonate from one of his relatives. Through deception, the scammer managed to steal from the victim a total of 4.3 million yuanabout 567 thousand euros or just over 600 thousand dollars. As explained by the police authorities of the city of Fuzhou, southeast China, the author of the scam impersonated both the appearance and the voice of a close friend of the victim and contacted him through the app wechat, arguing that using to transfer the money from a bank account to pay the guarantee of a public…

"Invention was as important as eating." That phrase describes him in life and work. Owner of infinite creativity, Hugo Kogan, the inventor of the Magiclick, has died at the age of 88. Among the distinctions that adorned his offices, they received three times the Diploma of Merit from the Konex Awards for his industrial designs, for the improvements he brought to homes and businesses, a legacy that will make him unforgettable every time industrial design is enabled in Argentina. A lover of sculpture and drawing, the bankruptcy of his father's wooden toy factory occasionally marked a before and after in…

go daddyone of the Internet domain registration services and web hosting most popular in the worldannounced that As of Tuesday, June 2, "it will stop accepting Argentine pesos in all its transactions." The American company, a global giant in its field, is at this time sending messages to your customers, in which they report that all transactions made from that date of June 2 will be in dollarsand points out in those emails that "Renewals of your active domains in Argentine pesos will not be accepted" and you will also have to have a way to pay in dollars, be…

After sparking a wave of indignation and the reaction of the authorities in Brazil, Google removed from its application store a video game called "Slavery Simulator" that allowed to buy, sell and even torture black characters. The São Paulo Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation for "hate speech" in this application in Portuguese, which in the middle of the week had more than a thousand downloads in the Playstore store Google, according to the AFP agency. The participants were advised to "use the slaves to get rich"or "do everything possible to avoid the abolition of slavery, to accumulate money", within the…

TikTok is the most recent application to join the wave of artificial intelligence. The social networking service is testing a chatbot called Tako, which can answer questions and have conversations with users of the app, according to screenshots seen by Bloomberg. When asked about the feature, a representative testing it said “new ways to power search and discovery on TikTok” in select markets. “We are always exploring new technologies that add value to our community,” the speaker said in a statement. “We look forward to learning from our community as we continue to create a safe place that entertains, inspires…

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) It has been present in the daily life of the human being for several years now, however, the latest digital innovations based on this technology have completely surprised more than one person. The difference between human intelligence and AI is that the latter is designed to analyze patterns and make decisions based on data collected. “AI is replacing some products, processes and results that were previously done by humans, that is, we are creating AI to do certain jobs for us. However, AI is nothing more than a description that it does not operate through a…

After the shock that his landing on Twitter involved, Elon Musk stopped naming a new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, who will take office in five weeks. While she will focus on business operations, he will focus on product design and new technologies. Graduated in arts and telecommunications, Yaccarino made a career in traditional media. As head of advertising at Turner and NBC Universal, she had to fight digital platforms for advertiser money. Listen to Pablo Corso's column for Modo Fontevecchia on Radi Perfil. by Pablo Corso image gallery

OpenAI Inc. brings its generative artificial intelligence tool for the first time ChatGPT to smartphones. An iPhone version came out Thursday and promises a service for Android devices in the future. The software, which is free, is already available in the United States for iOS devices through Apple Inc.'s App Store. Users can write questions and receive answers from the chatbot. It also includes speech recognition so users can voice their queries, according to a Thursday blog post from the Palo Alto, California-based startup. However, the bot will only respond in writing. The app also syncs text-based conversions across multiple…

Mo Gawdatformer commercial director of X Development, the secret research and development wing of Googlewe saw that the artificial intelligence is currently trained in language comprehension models that it only allows them to learn from social networkss. Thus, fear that the negativity bias may cause a hazardsince technology has the power to "love" humanity or to want "Smash her like flies." Although Gawdat affirms that it is still a hasty fear, since they still do not have the capacity for destruction and assures that "humanity is the threat", he does believe that the AI will soon have the "agency to…