Alphabet's DeepMind unveils Sparrow, an AI chatbot that uses a reinforcement learning algorithm plus human feedback and searches Google to support its claims

  Techmeme   ·   6 days ago

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

  Techmeme   ·   1 week ago

Users say a demo of ERNIE-ViLG, a text-to-image AI model from Baidu, labels certain political words as "sensitive" and blocks them from generating any result

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

A look at the privacy concerns raised by OpenAI's GPT-3, Google's LaMDA, Meta's OPT-175B, and other large language models trained on troves of personal data

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

The demand for AR beauty filters on Instagram remains high, despite evidence of harmful effects on users' mental health and Meta's efforts to ban some filters

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

An overview of electronic design automation software used for designing chips, as the US Commerce Department announces export controls on certain EDA tools

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

An in-depth look at Silicon Valley's historical corporate culture, how straight white men benefitted, and efforts by women and minorities to push for change

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

At least four top executives associated with a Chinese state-run semiconductor fund, which has invested $30B in total, have been arrested on corruption charges

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

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

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

A look at DARPA's SocialCyber, a project that combines sociology with AI to protect open-source communities and the code they create from malicious campaigns

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

BigScience, an effort by 1K+ AI researchers and NLP startup Hugging Face, releases BLOOM, an open-access multilingual language model bigger than GPT-3, for free

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

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

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

The Simplex Solution: Why it works so well

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

AI is learning how to create itself

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

All three of China's top livestreaming influencers on Taobao have gone dark in recent months amid increasing government scrutiny on e-commerce livestreaming

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

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

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

How self-driving startups Wayve, Waabi, and Autobrains are using end-to-end AI learning, hoping to leapfrog market leaders like Cruise and Waymo

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Developers suspect that China has forced Gitee, the Chinese equivalent to GitHub, to censor open-source code, a move that harms trust and the quality of code

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Meta's AI lab has created a language model called Open Pretrained Transformer, trained with 175B parameters, and is making it available for free for researchers

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

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

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

Mandiant: one-third of all hacker groups exploiting zero-days in 2021 were financially motivated criminals as opposed to government-backed cyberespionage groups

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

How crypto investors are pushing for semi-autonomous crypto zones in Central America, as they risk repeating the region's long history of corporate colonialism

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

How AI data-labeling companies like Appen profit from cheap labor in crisis-ridden countries like Venezuela to meet exploding demand

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

A look at AI-powered surveillance in South Africa, powered by CCTV cameras, video analytics, and fiber internet; Vumacam operates 5,000+ cameras in Johannesburg

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

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

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

The US is shifting its cybersecurity strategy from relying on companies' voluntary cooperation toward stronger oversight, minimum security standards, and more

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Russia's disconnection from Western online services raises fears of a "splinternet", networks with incompatible protocols diverging from today's global internet

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

An investigation details Operation Safety Net, a sprawling surveillance program in Minnesota to track protesters and journalists after George Floyd's murder

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

She’s at the center of the covid lab leak controversy. Now she’s telling her story. | MIT Technology Review

  Pinboard   ·   8 months ago

OpenAI says InstructGPT, its new GPT-3 version, is better at following instructions, producing less offensive language, less misinformation, and fewer mistakes

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

A look at Tonga's internet blackout following the volcano blast, which initial investigations suggest destroyed the country's single undersea internet cable

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

DeepMind claims its AI called RETRO matches the performance of neural networks 25 times its size, cutting the time and cost of training large language models

  Techmeme   ·   10 months ago

Facebook and Google are paying millions in the form of ad dollars to bankroll clickbait actors around the world.

  Reddit   ·   10 months ago

How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation | MIT Technology Review

  Pinboard   ·   10 months ago

How US agencies are preparing for "post-quantum cryptography" against attackers who harvest sensitive data now for decryption in the future

  Techmeme   ·   11 months ago

The 50-year-old P-NP problem that eludes theoretical computer science

  Hacker News   ·   11 months ago

Internal report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US Facebook users per month before the 2020 election; 75% of the users didn't follow any of the Pages

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Sources: US firm Accuvant, now part of Optiv, sold iPhone hacking tool Karma to the UAE for $1.3M in 2016; the tool has been used against hundreds of targets

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Researcher discovers an AI-powered service that makes it incredibly easy for users to generate nonconsensual deepfake porn by uploading a picture of a face

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Sources and experts say US-funded Afghan government databases containing sensitive personal data could be used by the Taliban to identify millions of Afghans

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Apple says researchers can vet its CSAM tools, but is suing a startup that can.

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.

  Pinboard   ·   1 year ago

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. | MIT Technology Review

  Pinboard   ·   1 year ago

Meet the people who warn the world about new covid variants • MIT Technology Review

  Pinboard   ·   1 year ago

NSO Group confirms that Israeli government officials opened an investigation and visited NSO's Tel Aviv office on Wednesday to assess Pegasus abuse allegations

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

Facebook says it is ending a project to build a head-mounted brain-typing device and will instead focus on a wrist controller for VR that reads muscle signals

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

A look at startups like WellSaid Labs and VocaliD, which are building custom AI voice actors for digital assistants, video game characters, and corporate videos

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

How a years-long cybercrime investigation by FBI, Russia, and Ukraine was undone by corruption, rivalry, and stonewalling, resulting in the hackers going free

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago

The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan

  Hacker News   ·   1 year ago