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[Link] Night Vision: Now In Color

Read: 10/4/2022 hackaday.com

We’ve all gotten used to seeing movies depict people using night vision gear where everything appears as a shade of green.

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[Link] Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theregister.com

In brief Prisons around the US are installing AI speech-to-text models to automatically transcribe conversations with inmates during their phone calls.

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[Link] She Wanted to Accuse a Celebrated Techie of Sexual Assault But Couldn’t. Until Now.

Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com

Multimillionaire tech entrepreneur Zia Chishti has stepped down from his roles in the AI software firm Afiniti, following accusations of sexually assault revealed by a former employee at a U.S. congressional hearing on Nov. 16. 

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[Link] Meet M6 — 10 Trillion Parameters at 1% GPT-3’s Energy Cost

Read: 14/11/2021 towardsdatascience.com

On June 25, Alibaba DAMO Academy (the R&D branch of Alibaba) announced they had built M6, a large multimodal, multitasking language model with 1 trillion parameters — already 5x GPT-3’s size, which serves as the standard to measure the rate of progress for large AI models.

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[Link] Clearview Finally Submits AI For Independent Testing; Only Tests Feature It Isn't Actually Selling

Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com

At long last, Clearview has finally had its AI tested by an independent party.

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[Link] Don’t Go Cheering Facebook for Killing Its Face Recognition Database Just Yet

Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au

On Tuesday, Facebook offered us a brief respite from the deluge of awful news stories on the company with a pretty pleasant-sounding announcement.

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[Link] ‘Yeah, we’re spooked’: AI starting to have big real-world impact, says expert

Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

A scientist who wrote a leading textbook on artificial intelligence has said experts are “spooked” by their own success in the field, comparing the advance of AI to the development of the atom bomb.

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[Link] Man creates A.I. version of dead fiancée so he can still text her

Read: 27/7/2021 www.indy100.com

Joshua Borbeau’s fiancée, Jessica Pereira, died from a rare form of liver disease and the grieving man has now created an electronic version of her so he can text her. The story was reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and details how Borbeau created the A.I.

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[Link] New ML-based console cheat puts the AI in ‘aim assist’

Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com

Tristan covers human-centric artificial intelligence advances, politics, queer stuff, cannabis, and gaming.

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