Tag Archives: Tech

“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator

reader comments 87 with Last week, Gizmodo parent company G/O Media fired the staff of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en Español and began to replace their work with AI translations of English-language articles, reports The Verge. Former Gizmodo writer Matías S. Zavia publicly mentioned the layoffs, which took place via video call on August 29,… Read More »

AI-powered hate speech detection will moderate voice chat in Call of Duty

reader comments 29 with On Wednesday, Activision announced that it will be introducing real-time AI-powered voice chat moderation in the upcoming November 10 release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. The company is partnering with Modulate to implement this feature, using technology called ToxMod to identify and take action against hate speech, bullying, harassment, and… Read More »

ReiserFS is now “obsolete” in the Linux kernel and should be gone by 2025

Enlarge / An Alameda County couple watches as investigators prepare to retrieve the body of Nina Reiser in the Oakland hills in July 2008. Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS file system, provided the location after his 2008 murder conviction. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images reader comments 123 with When Apple… Read More »

High-speed AI drone beats world-champion racers for the first time

Enlarge / A long-exposure image of an AI-trained autonomous UZH drone (the blue streak) that completed a lap a half-second ahead of the best time of a human pilot (the red streak). reader comments 40 with On Wednesday, a team of researchers from the University of Zürich and Intel announced that they have developed an… Read More »

Thorny AI ownership questions have Copyright Office seeking public input

reader comments 96 with On Wednesday, the US Copyright Office began seeking public comment on issues surrounding generative AI systems and copyright. The public comment period, which starts on August 30, aims to explore the complex intersection of AI technology with copyright laws, and it closes on November 15. The comments could inform how the… Read More »

Google’s $30-per-month “Duet” AI will craft awkward emails, images for you

reader comments 30 with On Tuesday, Google announced the launch of its Duet AI assistant across its Workspace apps, including Docs, Gmail, Drive, Slides, and more. First announced in May at Google I/O, Duet has been in testing for some time, but it is now available to paid Google Workspace business users (what Google calls… Read More »

The new spreadsheet? OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Enterprise for businesses

reader comments 40 with On Monday, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Enterprise, an AI assistant aimed at businesses that offers unlimited access to GPT-4 at faster speeds. It also includes extended context windows for processing longer texts, encryption, enterprise-grade security and privacy, and group account management features. Building on the success of ChatGPT, which launched just nine… Read More »

10X coders beware: Meta’s new AI model boosts coding and debugging for free

reader comments 45 with Meta is adding another Llama to its herd—and this one knows how to code. On Thursday, Meta unveiled “Code Llama,” a new large language model (LLM) based on Llama 2 that is designed to assist programmers by generating and debugging code. It aims to make software development more efficient and accessible,… Read More »

Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits

reader comments 94 with Sometimes the honor system just doesn’t work. Up until yesterday, Dropbox offered an unlimited $24-per-user-per-month plan for businesses called Dropbox Advanced that came with an “as much as you need” storage cap. This was intended to free business users from needing to worry about quotas. But as with unlimited cell phone… Read More »

California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems

Getty Images reader comments 28 with California’s main firefighting agency, Cal Fire, is training AI models to detect visual signs of wildfires using a network of 1,039 high-definition cameras, reports The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. When it sees signs of smoke, it quickly warns firefighters of emerging threats. During the pilot… Read More »