The FTC warned about ‘quiet’ TOS changes for AI training. Here’s why it might not be enough.
This week, the FTC warned companies that ‘quietly’ changing their Terms of Service, as a result of the powerful business incentives to turn user data into AI training fuel, could be unfair and deceptive. “Companies might be tempted to resolve this conflict by simply changing the terms of their privacy policy so that they are […]
New tool helps you fight back against deepfakes
As the fight against deepfakes heats up, one company is helping us fight back. Hugging Face, a company that hosts AI projects and machine learning tools has developed a range of “state of the art technology” to combat “the rise of AI-generated ‘fake’ human content” like deepfakes and voice scams. This range of technology includes […]
SpaceX wants to take over a Florida launch pad from rival ULA
Enlarge / SpaceX’s fully-stacked Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster on a launch pad in South Texas. One of the largest launch pads at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will become vacant later this year after the final flight of United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket. SpaceX is looking to make the sprawling facility […]
Google’s new version of Gemini can handle far bigger amounts of data
“In one way it operates much like our brain does, where not the whole brain activates all the time,” says Oriol Vinyals, a deep learning team lead at DeepMind. This compartmentalizing saves the AI computing power and can generate responses faster. “That kind of fluidity going back and forth across different modalities, and using that […]
Dutch startup Monumental is using robots to lay bricks
Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction. The industry is valued at around $2 trillion a year, in the U.S. alone. Much of that work is strenuous, repetitive and sometimes dangerous — precisely the sorts of problems industrial robotics are built to solve. The other thing construction brings is a wide range […]
What everyone can learn from a columnist who lost $50,000 in a scam
Everyone thinks they’re too smart to fall for a scam until it happens to them. Today, you might be making fun of the financial-advice writer who went viral for putting $50,000 in cash in a box and handing it to a stranger. Tomorrow, you or someone you love could be falling for a less dramatic […]
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