• Nvidia shares hit all-time high as chipmaker dominates AI market

    Nvidia shares hit all-time high as chipmaker dominates AI market
    Rising bets that chip designer’s revenue target will surpass Wall Street estimates lift the stock about 19% from two-month lowNvidia shares hit an all-time high on Tuesday in a buildup in expectations over the quarterly results of the chip designer that has been the biggest beneficiary of a boom in artificial intelligence.Rising bets that Nvidia’s revenue target will once again surpass Wall Street estimates have lifted the stock about 19% from a two-month low hit last week. Continue
  • Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Rachel Cusk’s pirated works used to train AI

    Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Rachel Cusk’s pirated works used to train AI
    Works by thousands of authors also including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami and Jonathan Franzen fed into models run by firms including Meta and BloombergZadie Smith, Stephen King, Rachel Cusk and Elena Ferrante are among thousands of authors whose pirated works have been used to train artificial intelligence tools, a story in The Atlantic has revealed.More than 170,000 titles were fed into models run by companies including Meta and Bloomberg, according to an analysis of “Books3” &
  • Instagram's Adding a Chronological Feed for Stories and Reels in Europe

    Instagram's Adding a Chronological Feed for Stories and Reels in Europe
    Meta announced it is implementing new “transparency measures” on Instagram and Facebook on Tuesday in response to the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) which requires Meta to comply by August 25. The measures will reportedly include archiving all targeted ads for users in the EU in its existing Ad Library…Read more...
  • Can’t decide which books to ban? Leave it to ChatGPT! | Arwa Mahdawi

    Can’t decide which books to ban? Leave it to ChatGPT! | Arwa Mahdawi
    Ordered to remove unsuitable books from their libraries, school administrators in Iowa outsourced the job to AI. So long, The Color Purple, Beloved, The Handmaid’s Tale …What do you get when you combine artificial intelligence with human stupidity? There are, unfortunately, numerous responses to that question. But in this particular case the answer can be found in Iowa’s Mason City Community School District, where school administrators are using ChatGPT to help them ban books.
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  • Growing Up Gay in the Age of Apps

    Growing Up Gay in the Age of Apps
    From the time I knew what intersections were, I said my family lived at the crossing of Inwood Road and Preston Road in North Dallas. I asserted that fact certainly for the better part of a decade. Then I found out those two roads ran parallel to each other.Then we moved to a different house. I did eventually learn…Read more...
  • AI is not a one-time bomb, but a slow burn of devastation that is consuming jobs and culture | Peter Lewis

    AI is not a one-time bomb, but a slow burn of devastation that is consuming jobs and culture | Peter Lewis
    Whether it’s a film script or an automated checkout, artificial intelligence feeds insatiably on the labour of real peopleEssential poll: three in four Australians say rents should be capped to inflation or frozen until economy improvesThe fight over artificial intelligence has gone nuclear in western culture’s own Los Alamos, Hollywood screenwriters and actors drawing a line over the role generative machine learning will play in our future stories.Behind Fran Drescher’s fine p