DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ How A.I. Made Mark Zuckerberg Popular Again in Silicon Valley
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Mike Isaac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, announced last year that his company would release an artificial intelligence system, Jeffrey Emanuel had reservations. Mr. Emanuel, a part-time hacker and full-time A.I. When Mr. Zuckerberg introduced Meta’s A.I. system, Mr. Zuckerberg made the code “open source” so that it could be freely copied, modified and reused by anyone. He said he appreciated that Meta’s A.I.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Emanuel, Emanuel, Zuckerberg, Meta’s Organizations: Meta, Google, Microsoft

☆ Opinion | If A.I. Takes All Our Jobs, Will It Also Take Our Purpose?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What would life be like if artificial intelligence solved all your problems? Death would become almost optional because you could take on digital form and keep going for a billion years. We human beings dislike our problems, naturally, but if we had no problems to solve, what meaning would life have? in the 10 years since Bostrom’s last book on the topic, “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.” A.I. The idea that it will change the world has gone from a nerdy obsession to conventional wisdom.

Persons: Nick Bostrom, Bostrom’s Organizations: Oxford Locations: A.I

Political preferences are often summarized on two axes. models allows us to see how a model’s political preferences develop. Source: Rozado (2024), The Political Preferences of LLMsWhat determines the political preferences of your A.I. Political preferences learned from those topics may then be broadly applied across the board to many other subjects as well. If one wants to steer this process directionally, Mr. Rozado proves it is straightforward to do.

Persons: Chatbots, Tomi Um, David Rozado, Rozado’s, —, ’, Elon Musk, ” A.I, Google’s Gemini, tinker, Rozado, RightWingGPT, LeftWingGPT, chatbots Organizations: Google, Big Tech, Conservative, Government, Self, Mr, Liberal, Democratic, Yorker, YouTube, Facebook Locations: A.I, —, America

☆ Kara Swisher warns news organizations need to ‘reinvent’ themselves amid existential crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

We spoke to Swisher on Monday to get her insight on some of the challenges facing the media and tech landscape today. And they didn’t anticipate that these tech companies were going to get into media. If so, why haven’t legacy media companies been able to lure in top tech talent to improve their products? Media companies do not get to live by the same anti-gravity rules that tech companies have been able to. But media companies didn’t offer the same kind of upside.

Persons: New York CNN — Kara Swisher, ” Swisher, Swisher, it’s, BuzzFeed, they’ve, Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch, “, Donald Trump’s, Joe Biden’s, It’s, You’ve, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, I’m, Elon, Tyler Perry, Sora, everyone’s, Adrian Chen, …, AllThingsD, Uber, We’ve, haven’t Organizations: New York CNN, Craigslist, . Media, Big Tech, New York Times, Harvard, The New York Times, Google Locations: New York

☆ Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Stuart A. Thompson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.? Research published across multiple studies found that faces of white people created by A.I. 90% got it wrong Real90% got it wrong A.I. 89% got it wrong Top photos identified as “A.I.” Real90% got it wrong Real86% got it wrong Real84% got it wrong A.I. The images in the study came from StyleGAN2, an image model trained on a public repository of photographs containing 69 percent white faces.

Persons: Taylor Swift, ”, Amy Dawel, Dawel Organizations: Australian National University, telltale Locations: ”, StyleGAN2

Members of the Writers Guild of America walk a picket line outside of Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif., in May. Like the striking writers, leaders of SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, have described their labor dispute in stark terms, calling the present moment “existential” for their members. But the core issues have been about compensation, as well as the use of artificial intelligence. The actors also have grave concerns about artificial intelligence, and how the technology could be used to replicate their performances using their previous work without their being compensated or consulted. Tara Kole, a lawyer with the entertainment law firm Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, which represents actors like Emma Watson and Ashley Judd, said in an interview that the potential use of artificial intelligence was “terrifying” to actors.

Persons: “, ” Duncan Crabtree, —, We’re, Mr, Tara Kole, Johnson Shapiro, Emma Watson, Ashley Judd, that’s, ” Ms, Kole, ” Mr, A.I, we’re, ” “, AFTRA Organizations: Writers Guild of America, Warner Bros ., SAG, Alliance, Television Producers Locations: Burbank , Calif, Ireland, Crabtree

☆ How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Stuart A. Thompson | Tiffany Hsu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

“Real” Umm-maybe “Real” Illuminarty “A.I.” A.I. or Not “A.I.” Hive “A.I.” Sensity “Real” Umm-maybe “Real” Illuminarty “Real” A.I. or Not “A.I.” Hive “A.I.” Sensity “Real” Umm-maybe “Real” Illuminarty “A.I.” A.I. or Not “A.I.” Hive “Real” Sensity “A.I.” Umm-maybe “Real” Illuminarty “A.I.” A.I. or Not “A.I.” Hive “A.I.” Sensity “A.I.” Umm-maybe “Real” Illuminarty “Real” A.I.

Persons: Elon Musk, ”, Musk, Chenhao Tan, “, I’m, Ron DeSantis, Cynthia Rudin, Dan Lytle, Midjourney, Kevin Guo, ” Mr, Guo, Biden, Damon Winter, Sensity, Jackson Pollock, Pollock, Marc Fibbens, Shyam Sundar, Sundar Organizations: New York Times, Guerrero Art, Times, University of Chicago, Republican, Duke University, Hive, Photoshop, The Times, The New York Times, Industry, A.I, Center, Intelligence, Pennsylvania State University Locations: A.I, Florida, “, Gettysburg, Pa, New Zealand

Search resuls for: "” A.I"

7 mentions found