The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will launch the pilot for a central-bank-backed digital rupee for the wholesale segment on Nov. 1, it said on Monday, identifying nine banks, including top lender State Bank of India, to participate in the project. The pilot’s use case will be to settle secondary Read more…
A freelance is one who gets paid by the word — per piece or perhaps. — Robert Benchley
A new art exhibition in San Francisco showcases some of the unique ways that artists have begun to incorporate Dall-E 2, GPT-3 and other AI systems into their work — efforts that go well beyond just typing some text and seeing what pops out. The exhibit, “Artificial Imagination,” comes amid Read more…
The Jerusalem Post reports that “Certain star clusters do not seem to be following current understandings of Isaac Newton’s laws of gravity, according to new research published on Wednesday.” (Specifically open star clusters, formed when thousands of stars are born in a gas cloud within a short time period.) The Read more…
Smartphones “have made it easier than ever to avoid interacting with the people in our immediate environment, writes New York City-based author Joe Keohane. But is that always good? “Some social scientists believe teaching kids that literally everyone in the world they hadn’t met is dangerous may have been actively Read more…
Dr. Bik is a microbiologist who has worked at Stanford University and for the Dutch National Institute for Health who is “blessed” with “what I’m told is a better-than-average ability to spot repeating patterns,” according to their new Op-Ed in the New York Times. In 2014 they’d spotted the same Read more…
Today ProPublica published “the largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites,” saying their report shows Google “is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa,” and “reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable….” The company has Read more…