Imgur, a popular photo-uploading service that has been informally tied to Reddit since its 2009 founding, will remove two types of content from its platform starting next month: explicit or pornographic imagery, and images uploaded anonymously — the latter with a lean on unused images, according to the company. While Read more…
The Evening Standard interviewed Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, in a piece headlined “Will Wikipedia be written by AI?” “The discussion in the Wikipedia community that I’ve seen so far is…people are cautious in the sense that we’re aware that the existing models are not good enough but also intrigued because Read more…
A quartet of mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas has discovered a 2D geometric shape that does not repeat itself when tiled. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss have written a paper describing how they Read more…
The Writers Guild of America has proposed allowing artificial intelligence to write scripts, as long as it does not affect writers’ credits or residuals. The guild had previously indicated that it would propose regulating the use of AI in the writing process, which has recently surfaced as a concern for Read more…
“Recently, on a YouTube channel, I said something terrible,” confesses a staff writer for the Atlantic. “But I don’t know what it was.” Whatever it was, it was enough to get the interview demonetized, meaning no ads could be placed against it, and my host received no revenue from it. Read more…
A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were established by Galileo Galilei. The team’s findings come from a revisit of the Codex Arundel, a compilation of documents written Read more…