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💥 Apple in talks with OpenAI to build chatbot
🧠 China developed its very own Neuralink
🚗 Tesla Autopilot has 'critical safety gap' linked to hundreds of collisions
🐱 Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
🤖 Google's AI bot can now help you learn English
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
💥 Apple in talks with OpenAI to build chatbotLINK
Apple is in talks with OpenAI and Google to incorporate their AI technology into the iPhone's upcoming features, aiming to debut new generative AI functionalities at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple has struggled to develop a competitive AI chatbot internally, leading to the cancellation of some projects to refocus on generative AI technologies using external partnerships. Choosing to partner with OpenAI or Google could mitigate past challenges with AI implementations, but also increase Apple's dependency on these competitors for AI advancements.
🧠 China developed its very own NeuralinkLINK
Beijing Xinzhida Neurotechnology, backed by the Chinese Community Party, unveiled a brain-computer interface named Neucyber, currently successful in controlling a robotic arm via a monkey.
Neucyber, regarded as a competitive response to Neuralink, highlights the intensifying global race in developing brain-computer interfaces, though it has not advanced to human trials yet.
The long-term implications of such technology remain uncertain, stirring both intrigue and concern in the context of its potential impact on health and the broader tech industry.
🚗 Tesla Autopilot has 'critical safety gap' linked to hundreds of collisionsLINK
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that Tesla's Autopilot contributed to at least 467 collisions, including 13 fatalities, due to a "critical safety gap" in its design.
NHTSA criticized the Autopilot system for inadequate driver monitoring and staying active even when drivers are not paying sufficient attention, leading to "foreseeable misuse and avoidable crashes."
The agency is also investigating the effectiveness of a software update issued by Tesla intended to improve the Autopilot's driver monitoring capabilities, following continued reports of related crashes.
🐱 Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by DiscordLINK
Spy Pet, a service that provided access to over 3 billion Discord messages and information on more than 600 million users, was shut down after Discord investigated and banned affiliated accounts.
The service, accused of violating Discord's Terms of Service by scraping messages and tracking users, also faced legal concerns under regulations like the GDPR for potentially handling data from children's accounts.
Despite efforts to continue operations, Spy Pet's website became unavailable, and its activities drew criticism for enabling harassment, including sharing data on platforms known for doxxing and targeting vulnerable communities.
🤖 Google's AI bot can now help you learn EnglishLINK
Google has introduced a 'Speaking practice' feature for learning English, allowing users to converse with an AI bot on their phones, a tool that began offering feedback on spoken sentences in October 2023 and now supports continuous dialogues.
The 'Speaking practice' feature is available to Search Labs users in countries like Argentina, India, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Indonesia and may appear when translating to or from English on an Android device.
Unlike structured curriculum apps such as Duolingo, Babbel, and Pimsleur, Google's approach allows for practicing English within conversational contexts, with the company expanding its AI's language comprehension.
Other news you might like
Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users’ photos to train AI if they don’t delete them.LINK
Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry. Now it's struggling to stay relevant.LINK
Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release.LINK
YouTube trialling ads that play when you are not watching videos, Google boss says.LINK
New AI training method mitigates the 'lost-in-the-middle' problem that plagues LLMs.LINK
‘What hasn’t changed…': Sundar Pichai reflects on his 20 year journey at Google.LINK
Bing blew up last year but it's still miles behind Google.LINK
Latest research and tools
Searchformer: a tool for enhancing planning algorithms using transformer models and search dynamics, specifically designed to work with MongoDB for data management and storage, enabling researchers to access datasets, train models, and reproduce experiments outlined in the "Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers via Search Dynamics" paper.LINK
React for Circuits: a library and toolkit leveraging React Fiber to facilitate the creation, sharing, and manufacturing of electronic circuits, offering features like rendering PCBs and schematics into web applications, a package manager, and a registry for easy distribution and collaboration.LINK
Univer: an open-source alternative to Google's document and data collaboration tools, offering features like spreadsheets, documents, and future slides support, with capabilities for embedding, customization, extensive formatting, collaboration, and a high-performance rendering and formula engine.LINK
Moviecart: a new product that enables creation and viewing of full length color movies with audio on the Atari 2600, featuring 80 x 192 resolution, 7 bit color, and 4 bit monaural audio, along with joystick and console control options for an enhanced experience.LINK
Relational Graph Convolutional Networks for Sentiment Analysis: the paper demonstrates how using relational graph convolutional networks can effectively analyze and interpret sentiments in text data.LINK
The Landscape of Machine Learning on ArXiv: a data map of papers from the Machine Learning section of ArXiv.LINK
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