A look at C2PA, a standard that relies on cryptography to encode provenance information of media content, started by Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic
An internet protocol called C2PA adds a “nutrition label” to images, video, and audio. — The White House wants big AI companies …
A look at C2PA, a standard that relies on cryptography to encode provenance information of media content, started by Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic
An internet protocol called C2PA adds a “nutrition label” to images, video, and audio. — The White House wants big AI companies … Mastodon: @timbray@cosocial.ca , @esnyder@mastod...
DeepMind's AlphaDev, an AI for discovering better algorithms, devised a C++ sorting algorithm that is up to 70% faster; ISO has since added the algorithm to C++
DeepMind's AlphaDev, an AI for discovering enhanced algorithms, devised new C++ sorting algorithms that are up to 70% faster and have been added to the language
The AI-generated algorithms are already being used by millions of developers. — DeepMind's run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues.
The open-source AI boom is precarious because it is built on top of giant models like LLaMA and GPT-3, and could collapse if Meta and OpenAI decide to shut shop
Greater access to the code behind generative models is fueling innovation. But if top companies get spooked, they could close up shop.
OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people's data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes
The company's AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.
Q&A with OpenAI's Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with virality, fixing problems, and more
Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon. — When OpenAI launched ChatGPT … Tweets: @tiagodf , @trengriffin , @antonioregalado , @techreview...
A look at VR support groups and communities helping members process cancer diagnoses and death, question their marriages, turn over childhood traumas, and more
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Artists say they risk losing income as people use their names as distinctive style prompts in text-to-image AI art generators for commercial purposes
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Source: China has blocked Tencent-backed health platform DXY from posting on Weibo, WeChat, and Douyin amid its criticism of China's efforts to fight COVID-19
Source: China has blocked Tencent-backed health platform DXY from posting on Weibo, WeChat, and Douyin amid its criticism of China's efforts to fight COVID-19
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Gamers in China, where online porn is banned, are using the Steam app Wallpaper Engine as a cloud drive and a video player to exchange adult-only content
Wallpaper Engine has become a haven for ingenious Chinese users who use it to smuggle adult content as desktop wallpaper. But how long can it last?
The war in Ukraine has prompted militaries to invest more money in AI; NATO has announced a €1B fund to invest in startups developing “priority” tech such as AI
The war in Ukraine has prompted militaries to invest more money into AI; NATO has announced a ~$1B fund to invest in startups developing “priority” tech like AI
The invasion of Ukraine has prompted militaries to update their arsenals—and Silicon Valley stands to capitalize. Tweets: @iethics , @techreview , @eileenguo , @iethics , @amynordr...
Companies are increasingly weaving data centers, typically located in suburbs and rural areas, into the fabric of cities to further reduce lag times for locals
Companies are pushing more server farms into the hearts of population centers. — In 1930, the telegraph giant Western Union put …
Anti-abortion activists are using license plate tracking and body cameras to collect data on people arriving at clinics for prosecutions post-Roe v. Wade
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Meta's AI lab creates Open Pretrained Transformer, a language model trained with 175B parameters to match GPT-3's size, and gives it to researchers for free
A look at Jakarta's “base camps”, informal meeting points that let Gojek drivers organize for better working conditions, including health insurance and sick pay
MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @_karenhao , @techreview , @zuckerbergmeta , @mario_gug , and @pulitzercenter Tweets: @_karenhao : In part three of @techreview's AI Colonialism se...
A look at Intrepid Response, an app the Minnesota police used to collect photos and data on journalists at protests and share across law enforcement agencies
In April of last year, a freelance photojournalist named J.D. Duggan was covering a protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota …Tweets:@twocatsand_docs,@techreview,@cendemtech,@mat, and...
DeepMind claims its language model RETRO matches the performance of neural networks 25 times its size, cutting the time and cost to train large language models
RETRO uses an external memory to look up passages of text on the fly, avoiding some of the costs of training a vast neural network