A video: “AI Safety and Ethics in a Time of Generative AI”

00:04 GPT’s randomness affects its diagnostic predictions 02:26 Challenges in implementing AI ethics and safety guidelines 06:50 Design, modeling, testing, and deployment phases of AI ethics 09:17 Collecting enough data to understand system behavior 13:26 Design limitations and testing considerations for AI systems 15:38 Challenges in fairness and bias in AI systems 19:50 Designing systems … Read more

A video: “AI Music, simply explained (feat. Grimes and Spotify’s CEO)”

Artificial intelligence is changing how music gets made – and how musicians get paid. AI is letting people clone artists’ voices, create completely new songs as fake collaborations, generate lyrics in seconds, even produce full tracks just by typing in a few words. It’s all causing some to say AI will be “the death of … Read more

Here is a definition for “open-source AI”

MIT Technology Review reported:  The Open Source Initiative (OSI), the self-appointed arbiters of what it means to be open source, has released a new definition, which it hopes will help lawmakers develop regulations to protect consumers from AI risks. Though OSI has published much about what constitutes open-source technology in other fields, this marks its … Read more

That’s big: “US, UK, and EU to sign AI standards treaty”

Turkey is not involved explicitly, but it is a member of the Council of Europe that developed the treaty… Based on the search results, here are the key points about the US, UK, and EU signing an AI standards treaty: The treaty is officially called the “Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and … Read more

A video: “China’s BYD is Catching up to Tesla”

Summary: 00:02 BYD overtook Tesla as the global leader in EV sales 02:28 BYD overtakes Tesla as the number one EV manufacturer in China. 04:40 BYD prioritizes global presence over US passenger EVs 06:53 BYD’s journey from battery making to electric vehicles 09:10 BYD’s meteoric growth and success in the Chinese and international markets 11:36 … Read more

Digital Apartheid in Gaza and Tech for Palestine initiatives

EFF has a piece on Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Big Tech Must Reveal Their Roles in Tech Used in Human Rights Abuses The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has reported on unjust content moderation practices, often at the request of Israeli authorities, which disproportionately affect Palestinian voices[6]. Besides, there is the Big Tech’s Role: The involvement of major … Read more

A video: “The Brutal Truth Behind Tech Layoffs”

Jan 25, 2024 RALEIGH Be my friend on X at: https://x.com/Josh_Christiane In the recent months companies like Unity, Amazon, Intel, IBM, Nokia, Samsung, and many more have fired hundreds of thousands of tech workers collectively. In this video I dive into the dark side of the tech industry and what is fueling this current wave … Read more

A video: “Before Siri and Alexa, there was ELIZA

ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between man and machine, Eliza simulated conversation by using a ‘pattern matching’ and substitution methodology that gave users an illusion of understanding on the part … Read more

Our US trip helpers (apps/services)

I am writing while we wait for our flight to Istanbul. It is the end of our month-long US trip. I want to list a few apps or services I used during the trip. Nothing too unfamiliar, though!   I thank Booking.com. As you might know, Booking.com is not very useful for Turkish users in … Read more

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, arrested in France

I have lost my interest in Telegram in the last couple of years, but it is a vital source for many communities… Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, was arrested in France as part of an ongoing judicial investigation into alleged criminal activities facilitated by the messaging platform. The arrest took place at … Read more

A video: “How Mozilla Ruined Firefox”

00:05 Mozilla’s bad decisions led to Firefox’s decline 01:56 Mozilla prioritizes profits over privacy 03:36 Mozilla cares less about privacy than they claim. 05:22 Mozilla’s integration of tracking pixels and pocket compromises user privacy. 07:05 Mozilla’s conflicting non-profit and for-profit status raises questions about its financial motives. 09:00 Mozilla’s activism and approach to big corporations … Read more

A video: “How we built $1B Startup in 2 Years | Perplexity AI, Aravind Srinivas

Summarized by merlin.app: 00:01 Perplexity AI aims to revolutionize how people consume information online. 01:40 Using internet data and learning from it 03:13 Perplexity AI aims to revolutionize search by providing conversational answers with citations. 04:36 Perplexity AI achieved 1000x growth in one year. 05:53 Building a 1000x Growth Product is super hard 07:23 Startups … Read more

A video: Why people switching to DuckDuckGo?

00:02 DuckDuckGo is the 6th most visited website in the US with 2.3 billion monthly visits. 01:40 DuckDuckGo’s humble beginnings and impressive rise as a search engine competitor 03:19 Gabriel sold NamesDatabase for $10 million to pursue something he truly believed in 04:42 Gabriel Weinberg created DuckDuckGo as a private alternative to Google 06:10 DuckDuckGo … Read more

The Olympics “not ready” for the AI ad

The Google AI ad titled “Dear Sydney” aired during the Olympics, faced significant backlash and was ultimately pulled due to several issues: Misuse of AI: The ad showed a father using Google’s Gemini AI to write a fan letter for his daughter to Olympic athlete Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone instead of encouraging the child to write it … Read more

A video: “Where Thousands Of Tech Workers Went After Mass Layoffs”

00:05 Tech sector shedding jobs 01:41 AI boom driving massive investments and tech industry growth 03:28 After years of growth, tech companies like Meta and Alphabet experienced layoffs and reductions in their workforce. 05:18 Tech companies, including Google, have been making significant layoffs. 07:00 Generative AI is gaining momentum in San Francisco with significant investments … Read more