When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor.
This was before ChatGPT existed, and fewer people were talking about the wonders of AI. But Nitta was working with what was perhaps the highest-profile AI system at the time, IBM’s Watson. That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on Jeopardy in 2011.
Nitta says he wa
Intel would like you to believe that its latest processors have ushered in a new era of personal computing.
As the chipmaker puts it, this is the age of the “AI PC,” in which dedicated neural processors help to run large language models, generate artwork, and perform a slew of other machine learning tasks. By boosting on-device AI, Intel believes we’ll see new applications that were either cost-prohibitive or too much of a privacy nightmare to run in the cloud.
Last April, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman made a strategic error that, at the time, made perfect Silicon Valley sense. For years, large firms had been using freely available public data from Reddit to train their large language models. With the explosion of generative AI tools entering the market and a long-awaited IPO in the works, Huffman saw an opportunity to finally cash in on this untapped potential resource by introducing new paywalls for accessing Reddit data. But he made this decision seem
American Amara Majeed was accused of terrorism by the Sri Lankan police in 2019. Robert Williams was arrested outside his house in Detroit and detained in jail for 18 hours for allegedly stealing watches in 2020. Randal Reid spent six days in jail in 2022 for supposedly using stolen credit cards in a state he’d never even visited.
In all three cases, the authorities had the wrong people. In all three, it was face recognition technology that told
I spend most of my non-Fast Company work time creating marketing videos. I use pricey, complicated software for several aspects of the process. But I’ve also built a nice stable of cheap or free tools that enhance my workflow tremendously.
Aside from requiring little to no money, these tools are also extremely easy to use. So whether you’re just entering the exciting* world of digital video creation or you’ve been at it for decades, here are some sites worth boo
(Reuters) — Social media platform Reddit has drawn up detailed plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in March, moving forward with a listing it has been eyeing for more than three years, according to people familiar with the matter.
It would be the first IPO of a major social media company since Pinterest’s debut in 2019, and would come as Reddit and its peers face stiff competition for advertising dollars from the likes of TikTok and Facebook.
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The latest chapter in the fight for the future of crypto kicked off this week in a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan.
On Wednesday, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York heard oral arguments in a courtroom battle between the popular crypto exchange Coinbase and the federal government over whether it’s operating as an illegal securities exchange.
In June, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued the popular crypto exchange Coinbase al
“It’s a pretty unlikely pairing: taxes and reality TV.”
Jill Cress is putting it mildly. And yet the chief marketing and experience officer at H&R Block is describing exactly what one of the oldest brands in tax preparation services is attempting: making a reality TV show.
In December, the three branches of the European Union came to a hard-fought agreement on the world’s first set of rules on the development and use of artificial intelligence. The so-called AI Act uses a “risk-based” approach, applying a light touch to more benign systems (recommendation engines, for example) while applying stricter transparency rules to more dangerous systems (like those dealing with loan qualification), and outright banning others (surveillance). As has
You’ve heard this claim before, but a new study lends academic credence to the common refrain that “Google is getting worse.” For a paper that’s being presented at March’s European Conference on Information Retrieval, a team of German researchers googled some 7,392 search terms once a week for a year. And they say the site, which is responsible for 90% of all search queries worldwide, does indeed appear to be losing the war against low-quality SEO spam.