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Artificial Creativity? – O’Reilly
There’s a puzzling disconnect in the many articles I read about DALL-E 2, Imagen, and the other increasingly powerful tools I see for generating…
The creators of a new large language model called BLOOM want to democratize AI
The news: A volunteer in New Zealand has become the first person to undergo DNA editing in order to lower their blood cholesterol, a step that may foreshadow wide use of the technology to prevent heart attacks.How did they do it?: The…
Russian “hacktivists” are causing trouble far beyond Ukraine
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The attacks against Lithuania started on June 20. For the next 10 days, websites belonging to the government and businesses were bombarded by DDoS…
How Might Your Data Be Used to Pin Charges on You?
This week’s big news in tech: Uber behaved badly. A massive document dump reveals that it knowingly broke laws to roll out its services as widely and quickly as possible. Of course, the company can blame its disgraced former CEO. “We ask…
Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream
The hugely popular music stream is taken down after a bogus copyright claim against it.
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Editing cholesterol genes could stop the biggest killer on earth
According to the company, that tiny edit should be enough to permanently lower a person’s levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol, the fatty molecule that causes arteries to clog and harden with time. The patient in New Zealand had an…
Advanced E.V. Batteries Move From Labs to Mass Production
SAN JOSE, Calif. — For years, scientists in laboratories from Silicon Valley to Boston have been searching for an elusive potion of chemicals, minerals and metals that would allow electric vehicles to recharge in minutes and travel…
Data quality now outranks security in new governance initiatives
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New York City is drowning in packages
Noticing the increase in e-commerce delivery traffic, then-mayor Bill de Blasio allocated $38 million in the November 2021 budget to shipping these packages via the “blue highway”––by ferry instead of by truck. “One of the best ways to…
BLOOM: Inside the radical new project to democratize AI
But Meta’s model is available only upon request, and it has a license that limits its use to research purposes. Hugging Face goes a step further. The meetings detailing its work over the past year are recorded and uploaded online, and…