Experts say that when ChatGPT confabulates, the bot is reaching for information not in its training data and filling in the blanks with plausible-sounding words
A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots. — Over the past few months …
Experts say when ChatGPT confabulates, it is reaching for information that is absent from its training data and filling in blanks with plausible-sounding words
A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots. — Over the past few months …
Twitter reactivates some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now” compared to 41.3% “in 7 days”
(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions
just so transparent https://twitter.com/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : Friendship ended with KATIE https://twitter.com/... Marisa Kabas / @marisakabas : audio of elon musk joining @kati...
Twitter begins reactivating some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now”, beating “in 7 days”
(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
Nick Clegg defended Facebook in an internal memo as the whistleblower who shared company documents with Congress and WSJ is set to appear on CBS' 60 Minutes
In an internal memo, Facebook defended itself and said that social media was not a primary cause of polarization. — Read in app
Sources: emergency meetings continue inside Facebook amid WSJ exposé, as some research staff decry Facebook's public response in group chats
Read in app Isaiah Poritz / OpenSecrets.org : Facebook maintained big lobbying expenses ahead of Senate hearing on teen social media use Robin Raskin / Techonomy : Instagram for Ki...
The new tab design in Safari 15 for macOS makes usability worse and shows a complete disregard for the familiarity users have with the previous tab design
even a little — is a design sin of the first order. Designs should evolve over time in the other direction.” https://daringfireball.net/... @tonx : ME 15m AGO: So glad I'm not the...
Supreme Court rules 6-2 in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Java APIs, overturning Oracle's win
- The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google against Oracle in a long-running copyright dispute over the software used in Android. — The court's decision was 6-2.
AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others
AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others
AWS has been experiencing an outage for hours — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps …
An ex-Googler who wrote a searing critique decrying Google's lack of innovation lambasts Google's approach to deprecation of its Cloud APIs
Steve Yegge :
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers
’ says Google, Comcast, and Huawei got in touch Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Amazon exec quits after company fires employee activists Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill : Amazon V...
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been …
Software engineer finds that Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application opened on a user's computer and send the data to Google Analytics
Chapter 1: The discovery — I have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one:
A closer look at software architecture lock-in, which many developers consider their archenemy, in its many forms like vendor lock-in, product lock-in, and more
A significant share of architectural energy is spent on reducing or avoiding lock-in. That's a rather noble objective …