Drones, cameras, apps, robots, and ML are helping speed up huge construction projects; one company expects to cut up to 5% off a UK railroad project's $11B cost
an industry stereotypically known for clipboards and Excel spreadsheets — the rapid embrace of the technology may change how quickly projects... @dustyrobotics : We're thrilled to ...
As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases globally, consultants, election researchers, and lawmakers push for setting up new guardrails
Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.
While US schools debate what to teach students about AI's promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums
While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons. Mastodon: @BenPatrickWill@mas...
How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs' inner workings
The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment. Tweets: @tikiambassador , @henryfarrell , @kevinroose , @tiagodf , @jas...
A look at the BabyLM Challenge, which aims to create language models with datasets that are less than one-ten-thousandth the size of those used by advanced LLMs
Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. — When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better.
Sources: Elon Musk shut off OpenAI's access to Twitter's data in December 2022, believing that the $2M/year licensing fee that OpenAI was paying wasn't enough
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The proliferation of AI-generated content on marketplaces like Upwork is causing transactional disputes and increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers
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After YouTube pulls Heart On My Sleeve due to a UMG copyright notice, a look at the legal dilemma for Google, which claims scraping data to train AI is fair use
If young Metro don't trust you, I'm gonna... tie you up in a decade of fair use litigation. — The AI Drake track …
Twitter updates the description of all blue checkmarks to say “This account is verified because it's subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account”
On Sunday, Twitter did something different: It updated the language in the description of verified users …
How researchers, including at Meta's AI lab, use AI to study EEG readings, decoding how neurons in the brain communicate and exploring the nature of cognition
Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times' main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme outlining the outlet's decision not to pay for Blue
The Times and other news organizations say they won't pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation.
How researchers, including at Meta's AI lab, use AI to study EEG readings, decoding how neurons in the brain communicate and exploring the nature of cognition
Thought is ever-changing electrical patterns unconnected to individual neurons. Meta is working on a system to read your mind. Tweets: @hellohypercube , @hkanji , @wsj , @singular...
A look at Eightfold AI, which uses AI to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers, and the startup's challenges, like a slowing economy and new AI rules
Steve Lohr / New York Times : Tweets: @kevinokeefe , @stevelohr , and @stevelohr Tweets: Kevin O'Keefe / @kevinokeefe : U.S. and EU laws may clamp down on the use of AI by employe...
Automattic acquires Day One, a popular journaling app for Apple devices with 15M+ downloads on the Mac and iOS App Store; terms of the deal were not disclosed
Automattic is expanding its lineup of online writing platforms with its acquisition of Day One, a popular journaling app for Mac and Apple mobile devices. Source: Matt Mullenweg , ...
A look at VC firm a16z's media and podcast offerings, led by ex-Wired editor Sonal Chokshi, which feature an array of voices across 500+ episodes
Andreessen-Horowitz firm has developed a sophisticated podcast system. Its mission: becoming the go-to place to understand the future. Tweets: @sippey , @rohanv , @sub8u , @kncuki...
New mathematical model-based research suggests that exposing US social media users to viewpoints different than their own furthers political polarization
Mathematicians are teaming up with political scientists to create models of how social media divides us, and results suggest at least … Tweets: @mims , @ingridlunden , @mims , @som...
At an MIT event, Microsoft president Brad Smith says the company was “on the wrong side of history” with open source
Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming — Microsoft president Brad Smith (pictured) …