An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more
The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’ Bluesky: @hypervisible , @tonytassell , and @nataliegreenp...
A profile of CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, who co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 after departing as McAfee's CTO following Intel's acquisition of McAfee for $7.68B
but never like this Threads: Tae Kim / @firstadopter : TIL the CEO of CrowdStrike is an accountant. — RE: https://www.threads.net/... [image] Tae Kim / @firstadopter : In 2010, McAfee had an eerily...
Internal emails: how Evolv's gun-detection AI system made its way to NYC subway stations, despite Evolv saying the system is not designed for that environment
the scanners produced false positives 85 percent of the time during the seven-month pilot. https://www.wired.com/... @casaverde83 : “Cohen, former NYPD Dep Commissioner of intelligence, also sits on E...
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr release Now and Then, the first “new” Beatles song since 1995, created using AI and an old lo-fi John Lennon recording
with help from AI James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Beatles get back together for one last song with the help of artificial intelligence Maria Sherman / Associated Press : Listen to the last new Beatles'...
X says Elon Musk will lead product and engineering teams, CEO Linda Yaccarino will lead teams including legal and sales, and both will oversee trust and safety
“U.S. ad revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier.” Michael Love / @elkmovie@mastodon.social : @Techmeme — Musk: make mes...
Q&A with two Ubisoft executives, one of whom says NFTs are a paradigm shift in gaming and gamers “don't get what a digital secondary market can bring to them”
yet they somehow “misunderstand” NFTs Bradly Shankar / MobileSyrup : Ubisoft saying you 'don't get' NFTs proves just how out of touch gaming companies can be Jason Faulkner / GameRevolution : Ubisoft ...
As Obama becomes President, get ready for Change.gov
As Barack Obama is sworn in as President today, Change.gov will come to the White House. — As he takes the oath of office, the White House website - occupied by President George. W. Bush for the pa...