The drones are coming as Amazon announces Monday that it’s launching a fleet of delivery drones. The retail giant will test its new Amazon Prime Air delivery system in Lockeford, California, the company said. Amazon worked with the Federal Aviation Administration and local officials in Lockeford, a small town south Read more…
Google engineer Blake Lemoine works for Google’s Responsible AI organization. The Washington Post reports that last fall, as part of his job, he began talking to LaMDA, Google’s chatbot-building system (which uses Google’s most advanced large language models, “ingesting trillions of words from the internet.”) “If I didn’t know exactly Read more…
“Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin believes that unfriendly artificial intelligence poses the biggest risk to humanity…” reports a recent article from Benzinga: [In a tweet] Buterin shared a paper by AI theorist and writer Eliezer Yudkowsky that made a case for why the current research community isn’t doing enough to prevent Read more…
In 2003, the Human Genome Project finished sequencing every bit of human DNA, remembers MIT News. “Now, over two decades later, MIT Professor Jonathan Weissman and colleagues have gone beyond the sequence to present the first comprehensive functional map of genes that are expressed in human cells.” The data from Read more…
Jack Dorsey’s beef with Web3 has never been a secret. In his view, Web 3 — blockchain boosters’ dream of a censorship resistant, privacy-focused internet of the future — has become just as problematic as the Web2 which preceded it. Now, he’s out with an alternative. At CoinDesk’s Consensus Festival Read more…
Intel, one of the world’s leading chipmakers, has responded to global headwinds by joining a string of other tech companies in placing a freeze on new hires as it seeks ways to cut costs. Fortune reports: “Increased focus and prioritization in our spending will help us weather macroeconomic uncertainty, execute Read more…
A new dataset from Google shows the features on the surface of the Earth in near real time, the company announced Thursday. The tool, called Dynamic World, uses deep learning and satellite imagery to develop a high-resolution land cover map that shows which bits of land have features like trees, Read more…