Tim Cook talks to Apple employees. About AI woes. Not sure what the plans are, and it seems like most of the talk was just "we did it before, we'll do it again". Hope so.
But maybe he's not the only one out of ideas. Maybe Zuck is out of ideas, too. He's been poaching various people from different companies, probably hoping that a good idea will come up. Could be. Maybe.
And Anthropic revoked OpenAI's access to Claude. Probably a safe move, but it proves Andrew Ng's thoughts that closed silos will hamper American AI research, and allow China to dominate. We didn't fight amongst ourselves in AI's early days. Everyone shared their work. But now, there's money to be made.
Yikes. ChatGPT users sharing private and sensitive information unintentionally sent their chat sessions to the Internet to be indexed by Google. Use Big tech at your risk. They don't care about your privacy. I feel sorry for the people affected, but sheesh. C'mon people.
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This is wild. It might be possible to detect when videos are manipulated or AI fakes. It uses encrypted lighting as a watermark. Watch the video in the link – the video makes it all clear.
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Edge case. Britain's most tattooed man can't use age verification apps because his tattoos make it look like he's wearing a mask. Live on the edge, fail on the edge. Use a VPN, guy. At least you don't live in Russia. Yet.
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Intel worker went nuts and threatened others. This is really sad, and I wouldn't be surprised if others experience the same thing. Intel's failure isn't Oregon's fault, but losing your job in Oregon is especially painful. Here's an editorial detailing Oregon's doom loop.
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Pearl District folks are not happy with the new homeless shelter being built in their midst. The funniest part was this statement:
Sure, Keith. Less crime near a homeless shelter. Let's put one near your home. So tone deaf.Portland Mayor Keith Wilson looks at this situation very differently. “In the shelters that we’ve opened, we’ve seen a reduction in crime, we’ve seen an increase in business.