Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselvesInside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”.This is the term that architects and boosters of generative AI have settled on to characterize responses served up by chatbots that are wholly manufactured, or flat-out wrong. Like, for instance, when you ask a bot for a definition of something that doesn’t exist and it, rather convincingly, gives you one, complete with made-up footnotes. “No one in the field has yet solved the hallucination problems,” Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet, told an interviewer recently.Naomi Klein is a Guardian US columnist and contributing writer. She is the bestselling author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine and Professor of Climate Justice and Co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2023-05-08 08:02:01 UTC ]
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Without machine learning, fraud detection, web search results, real-time ads on web pages, credit scoring, automation, and email spam filtering wouldn't be possible. Covering the entry-level topics needed to get you familiar with the basic concepts of machine learning, Machine Learning For... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2018-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Award-winning author and schoolteacher Pamela Butchart is set to go stratospheric in 2018, with a World book Day title and a Secret Seven revamp in the pipeline. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book industry leaders are divided in terms of their outlook for 2018, with some optimistic about growth and others more cautious about the delicate state of high street retailing and the impact of continued political instability. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Educational publishers should be focusing on technology that can actively help improve teaching and learning, Hodder Education m.d Liz Tribe has told The Bookseller's FutureBook conference. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"I expect in the first quarter we will start seeing the active removal of vendors from the supply chain." The post Why German publishers aren’t worried about the GDPR appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent bookshop The Book Hive has partnered with a local coffee shop and launched a new weekly "detox reading" event called Page Against the Machine designed to encourage more customers to pick up a book. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Aldiss helped shape and elevate the science fiction genre, but he recognized its mutability. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Adobe Flash, one of the most controversial elements of the web, will be phased out by 2020, Adobe said Tuesday. Browser makers, including Microsoft and Google, simultaneously announced plans for a gradual phaseout over the next few years.Adobe said that enough progress had been made within open... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2017-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Danny Arter explores a close collaboration between author, artist, designer and production staffer that has resulted in a vibrant illustrated title which wears the extensive labour that has gone into its creation effortlessly. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's decision to bar publishers from altering headlines or descriptions of articles posted to its platform has upset audience development specialists. The post Facebook won’t let people change the headlines in links — and social media managers aren’t pleased appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Naomi Alderman will join the judging panel for the 30th anniversary of The Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review and author of five books, is quick to admit she’s a list maker. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On Thursday, June 1, from 2:30–4 p.m., stop by the PW BookExpo Librarians’ Lounge (Booth 875) for a crafting session, courtesy of DK Publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It wasn't so long ago that book publishers and bookstore owners were quailing about the coming of ebooks, like movie theatre owners at the dawn of the television age. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is taking another step to penalize the lowest quality websites by lowering their visibility on the social network.Facebook is using artificial intelligence to identify when a link leads to a website with the worst ad experiences, like sponsored content spam and other negative cues, and... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anyone who saw the movie “Born on the Fourth of July” knows about Ron Kovic, played by Tom Cruise. Marine Sgt. Kovic was shot in Vietnam and paralyzed from the chest down. The gung-ho warrior-turned-war protester, who co-wrote the screenplay based on his memoir, has used a wheelchair for 49... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's ad empire is facing worries including brand safety on the live video it carries and constraints on inventory growth, but it had a strong start to 2017 all the same.The social network said Wednesday that it took in $7.86 billion in ad revenue in the first quarter, a 51% jump from the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anyone involved in writing books or TV and film scripts knows that whilst the entertainment and publishing sectors are constantly on the look out for the next blockbuster, nobody is quite sure what one actually looks like. A new AI platform called AUTHORS is looking to use machine learning... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2017-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A couple of years ago, Facebook introduced M, an AI-powered personal assistant for Messenger. The idea behind M is that you could ask it to do pretty much anything -- book flights, cancel your cable service and even find a plumber -- and it'll do it... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2017-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Every day, digital publishers are challenged by the fragmentation of media. Third-party and social platforms appropriating content, mobile "snacking," low-quality "clickbait" competition and content recommendation services that drive visitors off-site are just some of the factors depressing... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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