I get that countries should work together in this field but I doubt this will have the positive effect people are hoping for. This aims to speed up AI research even more so our (the people’s) control of it grows even thinner.
China wants a piece of the cake through this resolution because their homegrown efforts in regenerative AI have been quite fruitless so far despite their many claims of being a top player in recent years. But it’s an autocratic surveillance state with tons of data.
So what‘s going to happen is that they‘ll give more access to their massive datasets in exchange for being more involved into the development process of the real big players in the USA. They‘ll then use it to build an even tighter surveillance apparatus together and suppress people even more in china, the US and globally.
WhatsApp is developing an AI-powered feature allowing users to create personalized stickers using their own images. The feature is currently in beta testing and is expected to be rolled out to the public soon.
The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand "due to a structural failure."...
They suffer far more than anyone else from it. I mean just last week another rocket malfunctioned, lost a fuel tank that crashed close to a nearby village, enveloping homes in toxic gas. And spacecraft catastrophes are only the tiny tip if the tip of the iceberg.
The sources are chinese social media most of the time and by the time he posts it on youtube, the chinese government has deleted the videos in china already. It‘s not like you can access it so easily anyway. It‘s really not his fault that western media does not give a damn about what‘s happening in china. There rarely are any reliable sources because of that circumstance.
It‘s impossible. You can protest against mid sized manufacturers that pollute the environment but you cannot do anything whatsoever against directly state baked companies that do the real damage at which point you might rightfully ask yourself: „Why bother about the environment or safety whatsoever? The state says it takes care of it and I have no say in it anyway.“
You could write a headline like this every day and it would be correct in some way. It also works the other way when big tech makes big „donations“ to politicians.
The western middle class is voting for self destruction it seems. Apparently we really need to demolish everything we‘ve accomplished in terms if wealth and human rights of the last 70 years just to one day realize how good we‘ve had it now. Let‘s hope we can bounce back eventually and don‘t have to spend centuries in serfdom to the super wealthy.
Well said. And I'm not sure if that last bit was meant to be sarcastic, but it looks to me people got tired of lesser-evil'ing and just vote for the most evil instead. And I doubt many of them actually aim for improvement. They're in full destruction mode and deep down they know that.
You're saying this now but they're on course to leave the left in the dust and are likely to compete with greens in terms of members and votes by election sunday next year.
China’s energy regulator said it will limit “low-end” solar panel manufacturing after industry leaders called for more government intervention earlier this month. The move is an acknowledgement by Beijing that solar panel overcapacity is a problem, one that has pushed Chinese solar firms into a price war and shriveled...
Other countries already struggle to find use for the masses of panels china has been shipping in the last couple of months. They need to be approved, bought and installed first and there simply isn‘t enough personnel for that. There are already more panels sitting in EU ports than countries could realistically install in a year.
ICQ shut down yesterday and it was relatively small to begin with so I‘m afraid Google will be around for decades to come and possibly outlive most or even all of us.
Stampede is the most common cause of death for backpack tourists in Australia. It may tempting to jump fences for a little shortcut, but many cows do not tolerate home invaders.
Good luck getting past all the censorship to even scramble a halfway workable dataset together. Because the tech is definitely not what Apple is looking for there.
How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically...
Worst part is some of them aren‘t even idiots, just selfish and reckless. They don‘t care if the company still exists in a year so as long as they can make millions driving it into the ground.
McDonald's is removing artificial intelligence (AI) powered ordering technology from its drive-through restaurants in the US, after customers shared its comical mishaps online....
That‘s what I was getting at actually. They rebranded when clown attacks went viral on the internet. The new image of the company and their now (in)famous jingle „I‘m lovin‘ it!“ was supposed to only launch in Germany for McCafés but promptly went global when they really needed a rebrand quick.
Adobe recently updated its terms of use, and although companies do this all the time, these new changes have sparked a significant amount of discord and discussion among users....
A Chinese company creates hyper-realistic humanoids that mimic emotions for healthcare and education, raising questions about ethics and job displacement.
Humanoid robots are awfully expensive to maintain and a silly idea for factories. The team of robot experts you’d need to run this operation would cost much more in the end. You‘d be better off just building fully automated factories that use conveyor belts and wheeled robots. In other words, this is just Amazon propaganda to discourage unions and keep wages low. Robots are not on the way to replace us but rich fucks have every reason to make us believe so.
At least I don‘t have to worry about Microsoft closing this studio soon. And not because I don’t think they wouldn’t do it. They absolutely would. It’s just that I wouldn’t care a bit.
Polls are problematic in that they reinforce their own predictions. It's especially frustrating in recent years when you're bombarded with them even when there's no election in sight. Problem is, governing parties are usually busy governing while populists are campaigning 24/7. Media has made a huge effort to reinforce the trend and get people used to living in a far right era. Polls are unhelpful and destort democracy to a dangerous degree.
Anyone who played Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League could probably guess that something went terribly wrong during development. Bloomberg now reports that the multiplayer bomb from a studio beloved for its single-player Batman: Arkham games was plagued by several issues leading up to its repeatedly delayed launch....
Most of the execs never tried their hands on a game including this one. They genuinely have no idea about the industry and thought they had a hit game on their hands based on a trailer or something. It‘s truly baffling yet so typical.
Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year's $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...
I'm surprised you're only getting these now. My recommendations have been mostly garbage for the better part of a decade so all this praise for finding new music confuses me a little. Spotify has many feats, but the algorithm never was one for me, quite the opposite. I find it more annoying than helpful, actually.
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
Is this satire? Ghost cities really just started to seriously get reported on in 2018 and subsequently more each following year. Also what the heck even is Justapedia? The opinion piece that the "2018 onwards" section is based on was released in 2018 itself and was proven wrong almost immediately. It's outdated. Frankly, the section doesn't even look like it belongs on the page and is phrased intentionally devious. It's completely wrong.
That’s even worse. This is almost a decade old and got absolutely nothing to do with the housing market today. Are we really pretending nothing has changed since 2015? Especially in China? Seriously? The argument in the beginning was precisely about ghost cities 2018 onwards and neither of you provided a source that‘s remotely recent or accurate today.
Most of the curation or fine tuning is done in low income African countries so this is little surprising. They‘re cheap labour but you can‘t expect them to reliably detect sarcasm or notice mistakes in specialized fields. They basically give a thumbs up whenever the AI sounds convincing. Of course that includes instances where it‘s confidently wrong and that appears to be most of the time with this model.
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add "udm=14" to the search URL....
Can't believe these asshats are still hiding their megalomaniac desire for power and control behind the well being of children. If we ever need perpetual surveillance it's to keep scum like them in check.
That‘s the type of cockiness you‘d expect from scoundrels who just committed the biggest heist in history and got away with it. I‘m not surprised in the slightest.
They revealed some sort of companion for your phone that is ironically close to those in the movie „Her“ where the virtual girlfriend is voiced by Scarlet Johansson.
Just my two cents so take it with a grain of salt: Adderall is extremely sought after on the black market, especially among rich fucks. The abuse is probably the worst it ever was so I suspect a lot of it just goes missing before it can get labeled. In other words: Corruption.
Competitive online games have been Valve‘s focus for well over a decade so it‘s in line with their portfolio. If anything, Alyx was an outlier they only did because they have a headset to sell it with. I think they know what they‘re doing. Sucks for you to not be their target audience though because they are pretty good at making games.
I mean that's completely illegal at least in places like Germany where people have the right to be forgotten, but unfortunately you're still right. They already commited the biggest heist in human history and got away with it. I guess NFT grifters only got punished because they dared to also steal from some rich people while Altman and his cronies are smart enough to only steal from the other 99.9%. When they have your data once, you can't request it back anymore. Because the worst that can happen to them is a slap on the wrist and the cost of being in the fastest growing business of our times. In other words: World's fucked and shit sucks.
I get that record sessions are a huge hassle and simply paying VAs per AI-generated voice line is easier for everyone, but it somehow makes Paradox look a little careless to me.
Stories like these also set a precident. This is what voice 'acting' will be like for a moment before it becomes effectively eliminated because voice libraries will become diverse enough quickly and there will be no need for a single more voice actor to be included. It seems like VAs are basically forced to sell their voice to AI companies quickly to at least make a quick buck before they never get a job again.
There's probably no stopping it, but that made this read all the more frustrating to me.
Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols....
UN adopts Chinese resolution with US support on closing the gap in access to artificial intelligence ( apnews.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17563244
Leaked WhatsApp Feature Allows Users to Create Customized Stickers Using Their Own Image ( www.techtimes.com )
WhatsApp is developing an AI-powered feature allowing users to create personalized stickers using their own images. The feature is currently in beta testing and is expected to be rolled out to the public soon.
Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket ( arstechnica.com )
The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand "due to a structural failure."...
The US Supreme Court Has Handed Big Tech a Big Gift ( www.wired.com )
Le Pen’s far right set for big win in first round of French election ( www.politico.eu )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24147473
Far right party Alternative for Germany says membership has grown by 60% to 46,881 since January 2023 ( www.reuters.com )
Beijing intervenes in China’s solar industry as overcapacity dries up profit in the country's domestic market
China’s energy regulator said it will limit “low-end” solar panel manufacturing after industry leaders called for more government intervention earlier this month. The move is an acknowledgement by Beijing that solar panel overcapacity is a problem, one that has pushed Chinese solar firms into a price war and shriveled...
AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risk ( theconversation.com )
Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation ( www.sciencetimes.com )
G7 nations are ignoring the "cow in the room"—beef and dairy emissions ( www.motherjones.com )
[Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs ( youtu.be )
Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows?
City boy checking in....
Apple Seeks AI Partner for Apple Intelligence in China ( www.macrumors.com )
Original WSJ Article (Archive.fo)
Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer ( www.gamedeveloper.com )
Article textNewly-restructured Swedish conglomerate, Embracer Group, will leverage AI models to bolster game production....
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity ( ludic.mataroa.blog )
How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically...
McDonalds removes AI drive-throughs after order errors ( www.bbc.com )
McDonald's is removing artificial intelligence (AI) powered ordering technology from its drive-through restaurants in the US, after customers shared its comical mishaps online....
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Announcement Trailer ( youtu.be )
Japan Passes Law to Allow Third-Party App Stores on the iPhone
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/14/japan-passes-law-to-allow-third-party-app-stores/
Adobe made a small change to its terms and conditions and that made its users very, very unhappy — scrutinizing data to find illegal content is a risky move ( www.techradar.com )
Adobe recently updated its terms of use, and although companies do this all the time, these new changes have sparked a significant amount of discord and discussion among users....
What's Inside This China Factory? Eerie Humanoid Robots! [Video] ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
A Chinese company creates hyper-realistic humanoids that mimic emotions for healthcare and education, raising questions about ethics and job displacement.
Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall ( www.vg247.com )
Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats ( stackdiary.com )
Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.
YouTube Is Cracking Down on Gun Content, and 3D-Printed Gun Makers Aren't Happy ( gizmodo.com )
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Saints and Sinners Trailer ( www.youtube.com )
Report: Warner Bros. Execs Thought Suicide Squad Would Make A Ton Of Money Despite Development Woes ( kotaku.com )
Anyone who played Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League could probably guess that something went terribly wrong during development. Bloomberg now reports that the multiplayer bomb from a studio beloved for its single-player Batman: Arkham games was plagued by several issues leading up to its repeatedly delayed launch....
Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again ( www.engadget.com )
Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year's $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation ( www.theverge.com )
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
Last major Arabic-style mosque in China loses its domes ( www.theguardian.com )
Great Job, Internet: Google’s AI feeds people answers from The Onion ( www.avclub.com )
cross-posted from: https://zerobytes.monster/post/1072393...
Does One Line Fix Google? - A “Web” filter that presents what Google used to look like a decade ago | tedium.co ( tedium.co )
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add "udm=14" to the search URL....
‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] ( www.patrick-breyer.de )
Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway. ( boingboing.net )
OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson ( www.tomsguide.com )
ADHD drug shortage shows signs of letting up, but some patients still struggle ( www.nbcnews.com )
The FDA said it expects additional supply will be returning in the coming months....
Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter ( www.eurogamer.net )
Though the way the leaker describes it makes it sound more like a 3rd person MOBA than a hero shooter....
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts ( www.theverge.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15479755...
Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Chinese police were allowed into Australia to speak with a woman. They breached protocol and escorted her back to China ( www.abc.net.au )
Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols....