Zoom has become the go-to connectivity app professionally and personally after the pandemic. The tool has become the de facto standard for hosting virtual happy hours, telemedicine visits, and business calls. A hasty change to Zoom’s terms of service led some in social media to call for a boycott when reality is a bit more...
There’s an old adage in software. If something you wrote isn’t selling, open source it. Facebook/Meta Labs open sourced, AudioCraft, its family of AI audio models. The family consists of AudioGen, MusicGen, and EnCodec. AudioCraft is used for generating sound effects, audio tracks, and encoding audio for playback. You can think of AudioCraft as a...
Who says competitors can’t work together. Seven of the world’s largest automakers are teaming up to build national EV charging infrastructure across North America. When asked about making the switch to electric vehicles many car owners have a fear of running out of power between destinations. Gas stations are plentiful and most drivers can quickly...
Feature image credit: BBC We live in an era of the possible. Just because something is possible doesn’t mean we should do it. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has announced plans to introduce a new cryptocurrency designed to determine if someone is a robot or a human. Altman is calling the new cryptocurrency, Worldcoin, and is...
Ever since ChatGPT entered the public’s consciousness its been surrounded by controversy. ChatGPT started off as a cute toy, but immediately became a threat after Microsoft’s $10 billion investment announcement. Sarah Silverman and other comedians sued OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringment alleging their large language models, GPT and LLaMA, inappropriately used their material for...
Microsoft has reported several high profile hacks in recent weeks. The State Department, Commerce, and other government agencies have seen significant attacks and breaches from Chinese state actors. US government agencies aren’t the only ones attacked on the regular. US corporations are frequent targets for hackers and criminals. Google wants to try a new policy...
I think NASA knows. I think they’ve seen something, heard something, or found something and they give us tidbits of information each year. The latest news coming from Mars is the Rover found organic compounds in several rocks at the Jezero crater. Carbon and nitrogen combined with water form the basis of life and the...
All images, courtesy of Amazon. 2023 has been a wild year in the tech world. E3’s organizers have decided to shut their doors, or they didn’t. The Class of 2023 is graduating with ChatGPT who’s also preaching the gospel. And Amazon is ushering in a new future where people and robots will work alongside each...
Said Yann LeCun, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist. Yann LeCun is considered one of the godfathers of AI along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio. LeCun recently spoke with the BBC at a Meta press junket in Paris. I also think AI won’t destroy jobs forever and will spur the creation of new and different kinds...