How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions
Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis. Now locals and tourists can't get enough. Bluesky: @kimoco.bsky.social . X: @lessin , @ajlamesa , and @paoloigna1 LinkedIn: Mike Schroepfer ,...
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says “there is really no commercial downside” to sharing Meta's AI tech openly, even as many peers take the opposite approach
pytorch, detectron, segment-anything, llama, faiss, wav2vec, biggraph, fasttext, the Cake below the cherry, and so much more. Can't say we didn't change AI and to an extent the world. Mike Schroepfer ...
Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon join the NIST's push to scrap the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches
so Meta wants to get rid of them Mariella Moon / Engadget : Meta calls for the death of the leap second Ciaran / worthreading : Worth Reading Issue #12 Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Meta and ot...
Mark Zuckerberg showcases a concept for voice-controlled VR space generated by AI, plans for a universal language translator, and more in a Meta livestream
internal models of how the world works — may be the key. Learn more: https://ow.ly/... https://twitter.com/... @metaai : We're excited to share details on Project CAIRaoke, a breakthrough in conversat...
Facebook details Ego4D, a research project in partnership with 13 universities that uses first-person video to improve perception by AI assistants
cataloguing not just what you say but the physical world around you. Such systems could be incredibly useful, of course, but have huge privacy implications. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitte...
Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer says he will step down next year and shift into a part-time adviser role; Andrew Bosworth will become CTO
- Veteran executive ‘Schrep’ will shift to senior fellow role — Hardware boss Andrew Bosworth will be promoted to CTO role Source: Mike Schroepfer .
Facebook's wav2vec Unsupervised, a way to build speech recognition systems that require no transcribed data, may bring automatic translations to more countries
Wav2vec Unsupervised (wav2vec-U) … Tiernan Ray / ZDNet : Facebook AI cuts by more than half the error rate of unsupervised speech recognition Donald Conway / Insider Voice : Facebook Wav2vec-U learns ...
Kuo: Apple plans to release a mixed reality headset in mid-2022 for around $1K, followed by AR glasses by 2025 and “contact lens type” devices by 2030-2040
Mark Zuckerberg on the Future of AR and VR Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie : Kuo: Apple's Mixed Reality Headset Will Have No Fewer Than 15 Cameras Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide : Apple mixed reality headset...
Scientists criticize a lack of transparency in AI research, citing issues of replication in research and unequal access to code, proprietary data, and hardware
with dangerous consequences. Replication by different researchers would expose problems sooner, making AI stronger for everyone” #NLProc stop publishing what is not replicable https://www.technologyre...
Scientists criticize a lack of transparency in AI research, citing issues of replication in research and unequal access to code, proprietary data, and hardware
Tech giants dominate research but the line between real breakthrough and product showcase can be fuzzy. Some scientists have had enough. Tweets: @techreview , @techreview , @techreview , @techreview ...