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In August 2015, around the height of the chatbot craze, Meta (formerly Facebook) launched an AI-and-human-powered virtual assistant called M. The promise of M — which select Facebook users could access through Facebook Messenger — was a “next-generation” assistant that would automatically place…
Turtles all the way down: Why AI’s cult of objectivity is dangerous, and how we can be better
February 5, 2022
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This article was contributed by Slater Victoroff, founder and CTO of Indico Data.
There is a belief, built out of science fiction and a healthy fear of math, that AI is some…
There’s a new iPhone SE rumored for the first half of 2022. In its third generation, analysts also expect this could be Apple’s most affordable 5G phone that could turn a billion Android users into switchers. Read on as we round up everything we know about the upcoming…
Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: Your Own Working Backyard Electric Train
February 5, 2022
Admit it, you know it’d be fun to be chief engineer on your own train. You’ve probably never even thought about it before, but if I said “Here, have your own train. Go nuts!”, you’d jump at it. I know I would. And through the magic of the internet and a crazy little corner of it known as the electric vehicle section of the Alibaba Chinese shopping site, that dream is closer to a reality…
The demand for adding wireless Android Auto to your car is unsurprisingly high, which makes Motorola’s “dead simple” MA1 dongle a hard gadget to buy. Here’s where you can find it in the US.
First released at the beginning of the year, the Motorola MA1 is a simple…
Tonga Eruption Sent Ripples Through Earth’s Ionosphere
February 5, 2022
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Tonga Eruption Sent Ripples Through Earth’s Ionosphere
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NASA detected the shockwave from the underwater eruption high up in the atmosphere.
The powerful underwater volcanic…
AI Weekly: DeepMind’s AlphaCode, automatic age verification, and a new open language model
February 5, 2022
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This week in AI, DeepMind detailed a new code-generating system, AlphaCode, that it claims is competitive with top human programmers. Supermarket chains in the U.K. announced that they’d begin testing automatic age verification systems to estimate customers’ ages when buying alcohol. And EleutherAI…
Can you trust AI to protect AI?
February 5, 2022
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Now that AI is heading into the mainstream of IT architecture, the race is on to ensure that it remains secure when exposed to sources of data that are beyond the enterprise’s…
Android TV: Must-have apps for 2022 [Video]
February 5, 2022
Android TV is an incredible entertainment OS at the very heart of many TV, projector, and home theater setups for millions across the globe. Android TV and by extension the new Google TV overhaul for selected devices is great as-is, but with just a few apps, it can be even…
The Google Nest Doorbell got a refresh last year with a new battery-powered model and also the promise of new support. Now, the Google Nest Doorbell is getting a couple of limited-time ringtones for the Lunar New Year.
Much like the seasonal ringtones available over Christmas and Halloween, the Nest Doorbell’s Lunar New Year ringtones are only available for a limited time.
The two tones…
