2024-05-10
Kevin Roose gets up to more mischief with (mostly platonic) AI friends. Worth it if only to discover that E.R.P. has a very different meaning from the variable electronic road pricing we know and love in Singapore... https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
An account of chatting with 18 AI companions for a month: AI friendship is hollow, but chatbots could enhance human socializing if developed responsibly
Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.
2023-04-29
.@ElonMusk wants to have his AI cake and delete it too. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
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
New York Times :
2021-08-03
Not quite kicking Dave out of the airlock, but #AI is recognised as the inventor of a patent in Australia, days after the same result in South Africa - the opposite to the US, UK and EU. Your move, Japan, Israel, and India. h/t @DrRyanAbbott https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
The Register
Australian court rules AI can be considered an inventor on patent filings, days after South Africa granted a patent in which AI was designated as the inventor
Simon Sharwood / The Register :
2018-01-07
Chinese users starts to exhibit the opposite reaction to many of their Western counterparts: accepting (or apathetic) about government surveillance, but increasingly suspicious of that by corporations. https://nyti.ms/2EYptnl
New York Times
Recent public outcry against Alibaba's Sesame Credit and Tencent's WeChat over user privacy point to a growing demand for online data protection in China
SHANGHAI — China's biggest online payment company offers its hundreds of millions of users a breakdown on their spending each year … Facebook: Yohko Hatada . Tweets: @davidakaye , ...