In one of the most stunning turns of events, the Electronic Entertainment Expo; E, won’t return for 2023. E3 hasn’t held an in-person event since the pandemic. E3 was supposed to be, ‘full speed ahead’, as recently as February. Nintendo, Microsoft, and UbiSoft have all stated they won’t be participating this year and that simply...
That’s the headline. It’s been a wild week after Elon Musk and other tech figureheads asked for a pause on AI innovation, and we reported on Young Guru raising the alarm on audio deepfakes. This week, the Italian Data Privacy and Security regulator has banned ChatGPT from use in its country. Italy’s regulator says it...
Days after Elon Musk completed his latest layoff spree; Twitter, asked online source code host GitHub to remove the Twitter’s source code from its servers. What Is GitHub? GitHub.com is an online service used to share software source code between different software developers. GitHub is used by companies, open source organizations, and individuals to share...
A really great article on Ars Technica highlights the struggle AI assistants like Alexa and Siri are having making money. Amazon is expected to lose an eye popping $10 billion from last year’s purchases of Amazon Alexa and other devices. $3 billion of that is tied to Alexa Assistants Struggle to Make Money Since 2014,...
For more information on ChatGPT and GPTs read our previous article. It’s been a long time since I’ve been this geeked out about a technology. I haven’t been this excited since the Pentium. I’m going to try my hardest to write this article hype-free, but it’s damned hard. I haven’t geeked out about performance specs...
To quote Warren G, or maybe it should be Young Guns, “…Regulators!! Mount up.” Just when things start getting interesting, corporations remove safeguards that protect society. On Tuesday, news escaped Microsoft that it fired an AI ethics team responsible for ensuring AI-powered products ship with safeguards that protect society. This news comes as Microsoft RIFs...
Again for those in the back. Mapp’s Modus on Machines After being ridiculed in the AI press, Google answers with PaLM-E. PaLM-E is a visual language model. This type of model incorporates computer vision with language. This allows someone to control a robot using plain English commands instead of low-level programming. How Does It Work...
Last week’s big TikTok news saw the US House Foreign Affairs Committee granting President Joe Biden broad powers to ban TikTok from American phones. Since then, 30 US states, Canada and EU have banned TikTok from government phones. How Will TikTok Keep Data Out of China By keeping in user countries… TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, announced...
The US House Foreign Affairs Committee voted along party lines (24-16 R) to give the Biden administration the authority to ban TikTok. This represents the most far reaching restriction on any social networking app in the United States. The TikTok controversy began in the Trump administration when he was personally leading the charge to have...
I always failed at long distance relationships. After a hot and heavy summer or a conference fling I’d start a new long distance relationship strong. I’d text, email, and call. I’d even stay up late and play the, No-You-Hang-Up game. I even did some long distance traveling up and down the East Coast for a...