A profile of former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg and her new startup Meeno, which provides an AI-powered chatbot for relationship advice on iOS and has raised $4.9M
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : X: @tobywalsh , @katejopling , @ronivey , @andrewyng , @chloeautio , @tfadell , @madhumita29 , and @dannygroner X: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : The loneliness cure: ...
A look at the decline of Quora, which used to stand out as an accuracy-focused, knowledge-centric platform but is now filled with bizarre, AI-generated entries
This raised the issue of consent and ownership, as Quorans had to decide whether to consent to the new terms or take their work and flee. Mastodon: @glenngabe@mas.to , @waxy@xoxo.zone , @juergen_huber...
Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh are promoting AI-generated disinformation created with cheap tools ahead of the January 2024 elections
Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times : X: @1br0wn , @areeqchowdhury , @tobywalsh , and @valayism X: Ian Brown / @1br0wn : “It's easy for a politician to say, ‘This is deepfake’, or 'This is #AI-generate...
OIG report: US officials working on Login.gov, used by dozens of sites, rejected facial recognition to verify users due to algorithmic bias, breaking NIST rules
Khari Johnson / Wired : Tweets: @tobywalsh Tweets: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : Is this really true? WIRED claims federal security guidelines require that a person's identity must be confirmable using a...
An analysis of the top 100 cited AI papers per year from 2020 to 2022 shows US-based AI research as the most impactful and Google the dominant organization
Who Is publishing the most Impactful AI research right now? With the breakneck pace of innovation in AI, it is crucial to pick up some signal as soon as possible. Tweets: @zetavector , @zetavector , ...
Interview with founders of Character.ai, who say they left Google's LaMDA project to let users experiment with large language models through the use of chatbots
The creators of Google's LaMDA have launched the chatbot startup Character.ai, which is open for anyone to try Tweets: @tsimonite , @timnitgebru , @damianpaletta , @drewharwell , @catherineflick , @to...
Elon Musk claims Tesla is “very close” to developing fully autonomous vehicles despite Tesla's “Full Self Driving” feature not living up to its name since 2016
it hasn't Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : Elon Musk: Tesla is close to achieving basic level 5 autonomy for its cars VentureBeat : Elon Musk says Tesla is ‘very close’ to level 5 autonomous driving Chin...
As Microsoft and Amazon push for federal regulation of facial recognition, an overview of related local laws that have been passed and tech lobbying efforts
Brian Fung / CNN : Tweets: @tobywalsh and @einsteinsattic Tweets: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon's face recognition bans don't go far enough: “We need a full-on recall of all of...
A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption
but it doesn't have to be creepy Vass Bednar / regs to riches : #6 — This is a newsletter about regulatory hacking featuring (mostly) Canadian startups. Xinmei Shen / Abacus : From QR codes to socia...
Interview with Garry Kasparov, the first chess world champion to be defeated by a computer, about chess, AI, and a strategy for staying a step ahead of machines
Twenty-three years after he lost to Deep Blue, Kasparov says people need to work with machines. You have to “nudge the flock of intelligent algorithms.” Tweets: @softengresgrp , @warinthefuture , @to...