AI & RoboticsNews

How video games could be used to generate AI training data

February 2, 2022
AI, like humans, learns from examples. Given enough data and time, an AI model can make sense of the statistical relationships well enough to generate predictions. That’s how OpenAI’s GPT-3 writes text from poetry to computer code, and how apps like Google Lens recognize objects such as lampshades in photos of bedrooms. Historically, the data to train as well as test AI has come mostly from…
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MobileNews

Can the Duolingo iPhone app help a language dunce learn some Spanish?

February 2, 2022
Duolingo is one of the world’s most popular apps, consistently ranking in the top two or three educational apps, and a hugely popular way to learn a language. All of which had, until very recently, been completely irrelevant to me. I’m generally a fast learner, and have picked up a diverse range of skills over the years, but have always been completely hopeless when it comes to learning…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Elon Musk accuses AP reporter of being a lobbyist, sets fans against him on Twitter over Tesla recall article

February 2, 2022
Elon Musk is accusing an Associated Press reporter of being a lobbyist over an article about NHTSA’s recall of Tesla vehicles in the Full Self-Driving Beta program. Now his fans are attacking the journalist on Twitter. The biggest news dominating the Tesla universe today is the recall notice that NHTSA issued about Tesla’s “rolling stop” feature in Full Self-Driving Beta. The feature…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: February 1, 2022

February 2, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
GamingNews

EA’s calendar Q4 bookings grow 7% to $2.577B

February 2, 2022
Electronic Arts met expected earnings today for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, as the game publisher saw big engagement with its existing games. But it lowered its annual adjusted sales forecast for the fiscal year that ends March 31. Net bookings for the quarter were $2.577 billion, compared to $2.4 billion a year ago. The Redwood City, California-based video game giant reported…
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