Agentic RAG is getting a lot of attention these days as a practical way to reduce — or, depending on the audacity of the vendor, eliminate — hallucinations from generative AI (genAI) tools. Sadly, it might not decrease hallucinations — but it could open the door to other problems. To be clear, there’s nothing bad about Agentic RAG…
Pixel phones are filled with efficiency-enhancing Google intelligence, and one area that’s all too easy to overlook is the way the devices can improve the act of actually talking on your cellular telephone. That’s true for any Pixel model, no matter how old it may be, and it’s especially true for the new Pixel 9…
As the excitement about the immense potential of large language models (LLMs) dies down, now comes the hard work of ironing out the things they don’t do well. The word “hallucination” is the most obvious example, but at least output that is crazily fictitious stands out as wrong. It’s the lesser mistakes – factual…
Thanks to her ability to deal significant damage while also applying overwhelming amounts of daze by mixing her enhanced basic attacks and Moonlit Begonia EX Special in 50+ hit combos, it is not a surprise that Qingyi arrived to claim the spot of the best Electric stun agent in Zenless Zone Zero. But just like…
Earth Defense Force 6 is among the strangest games I’ve ever played. I don’t mean strange in an Earth Defense Force kind of way; I’m no stranger to EDF. To explain how fascinating this game is, I’m going to get deep into spoiler territory. There’s no way around it. For those of you who would…
When you start playing Once Human, one of the first problems you’ll likely face is figuring out how to repair your rapidly degrading Pickaxe. You can repair your motorcycle, as well as weapons and armor, and you can technically use the Pickaxe as a weapon, but can you repair it? Screenshot by Destructoid Screenshot by…
Enlarge / Roger Stone, former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, center, during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024. (credit: Getty Images) Google’s Threat Analysis Group confirmed Wednesday that they observed a threat actor backed by the Iranian government targeting Google accounts associated with US presidential campaigns, in addition to…
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have opted to not just discuss all of the ways artificial intelligence (AI) can go wrong, but to create what they described in an abstract released Wednesday as “a living database” of 777 risks extracted from 43 taxonomies. According to an article in MIT Technology Review outlining the initiative, “adopting…
Primate Labs Neural processing units (NPUs) are becoming commonplace in chips from Intel and AMD after several years of being something you’d find mostly in smartphones and tablets (and Macs). But as more companies push to do more generative AI processing, image editing, and chatbot-ing locally on-device instead of in the cloud, being able to…
The Wholesome Games Steam event is here to announce new games and spotlight current releases, and one of today’s reveals is Ritual of Raven. This witchy farming sim comes from Spellgarden Games, who previously worked on Sticky Business. It’s currently due out through publisher Team17 sometime in 2025. Beyond Steam, Ritual of Raven is eyeing…