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In today's Techpresso:
♟️ Google DeepMind develops grandmaster-level chess AI
🤷♀️ Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything
🏴 Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses
🛒 Amazon steers consumers to higher-priced items, lawsuit claims
🛑 Instagram and Threads will stop recommending political content
🎁 + 9 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
♟️ Google DeepMind develops grandmaster-level chess AILINK
Google DeepMind has developed a new AI capable of playing chess at a grandmaster level using a language model-based architecture, diverging from traditional search algorithm approaches.
The chess AI, trained on a dataset of 10 million games and 15 billion data points, achieved an Elo rating of 2895 in rapid chess against human opponents, surpassing AlphaZero when not employing the MCTS strategy.
This breakthrough demonstrates the broader potential of Transformer architecture beyond language models, challenging the notion of transformers as merely statistical pattern recognizers.
🤷♀️ Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anythingLINK
Goody-2 is a satirical AI created by the art studio Brain, designed to highlight the extremes of ethical AI by refusing to engage in any conversation due to viewing all queries as potentially offensive or dangerous.
The AI serves as a critique of overly cautious AI development practices and the balance between responsibility and usefulness, emphasizing responsibility to an absurd level.
Despite its satire, Goody-2 raises questions about the effectiveness of AI and the necessity of setting boundaries, as seen in its creators' deliberate decision to prioritize ethical considerations over practical utility.
🏴 Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addressesLINK
Movie companies' third attempt to force Reddit to reveal IP addresses of users discussing piracy was rejected by the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
US Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson ruled that providing IP addresses is subject to First Amendment scrutiny, protecting potential witnesses' right to anonymity.
The court upheld Reddit's right to protect its users' First Amendment rights, noting that the information sought by movie companies could be obtained from other sources.
🛒 Amazon steers consumers to higher-priced items, lawsuit claimsLINK
Amazon faces a lawsuit filed by two customers accusing the company of inflating prices through its Buy Box algorithm, misleading shoppers into paying more.
The lawsuit claims Amazon gives preference to its own products or those from sellers in its Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) program, often hiding cheaper options from other sellers.
Jeffrey Taylor and Robert Selway, who brought the lawsuit, argue this practice violates Washington's Consumer Protection Act by deceiving consumers and stifling fair competition.
🛑 Instagram and Threads will stop recommending political contentLINK
Meta is expanding its policy to limit political content in recommended feeds on Instagram and Threads, aiming to let users avoid political content unless they choose to see it.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri stated the goal is to balance offering political content for those interested while respecting users' preferences, with similar changes anticipated for Facebook.
Users desiring political content in their recommendations can opt-in through account settings, while creators can check if political posts affect their recommendability via the Account Status feature.
Other news you might like
Apple argues against right-to-repair bill that would reduce its control.LINK
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Apple Vision Pro is ‘2nd most impressive tech since the iPhone’.LINK
The world's most controversial domain registrar has a new owner — and apparently it is ‘forging a new path’.LINK
Google’s Gemini assistant is a fantastic and frustrating glimpse of the AI future.LINK
These $349 smart glasses have ‘AI superpowers’ and a comical charging nose.LINK
New AI tool discovers realistic 'metamaterials' with unusual properties.LINK
Perplexity partners with Vercel, opening AI search to developer apps.LINK
Samsung gets FDA nod for smartwatch sleep apnea detection.LINK
Tesla’s 2023 regulatory credits generate $1.79 billion in revenue.LINK
Latest research and tools
ZX: a tool for writing better scripts that enhances script authoring with added simplicity and functionality.LINK
brplot: a simple C application/library that plots data lines fed to it through standard input, supporting integration with other Unix tools and capable of plotting a variety of data sources like Fibonacci numbers, UDP or TCP stream data, or CPU core temperatures.LINK
LubeLogger: a self-hosted, open-source tool for tracking vehicle service records, streamlining maintenance management without the need for spreadsheets or receipt hoarding.LINK
Memray: a memory profiler for Python that traces every function call to accurately represent call stacks, handles native calls, operates with minimal performance impact, and generates various reports to analyze memory usage, aiding in identifying high memory consumption and allocation hotspots in code.LINK
Hyperbridge: a fast multi-producer, multi-consumer unbounded channel in Rust for efficient data handling.LINK
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