Author Archives: Srishti Mukherjee - Page 4
14
Jan
Can NFTs save journalism?
The Associated Press is collaborating with Xooa to set up an NFT marketplace to sell the work of the news organisation’s photojournalists. The proceeds from the sale will fund AP’s journalistic endeavours. Slated to launch on January 31, the marketplace will allow collectors to buy, sell, and trade the news agency’s official award-winning photojournalism as […]
Large language models are all the rage now, especially after the launch of Gpt-3. Ever since, AI powerhouses have come up with bigger and more sophisticated language models to push the frontiers of the NLP game. Now, DeepMind has proposed a smaller and less expensive language model, dubbed RETRO, with an aim to address the […]
Teenager Jaiden Stipp has sold a digital illustration (a waving astronaut) for 20 ETH (works out to $62,000 at the going rate). 18-year old Victor Langlois has raked in $18 million from NFT sales in 2020. His digital art work, titled The Everlasting Beautiful, fetched a staggering $550,000. Meanwhile, digital artist Beeple sold his art […]
The biggest metaverses today, which include Fortnite and Roblox, offer brands the opportunity to advertise their products in a way that would be unattainable in the real world. For instance, the skateboarding brand Vans created a virtual skatepark in Roblox that allows its players to earn points that they can redeem at a virtual store […]
The biggest metaverses today, which include Fortnite and Roblox, offer brands the opportunity to advertise their products in a way that would be unattainable in the real world. For instance, the skateboarding brand Vans created a virtual skatepark in Roblox that allows its players to earn points that they can redeem at a virtual store […]
07
Jan
Former co-leader of Google’s Ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru, thinks that AI needs to slow down
On May 18 2021, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the rollout of LaMDA, a large language model (LLM) system that can chat with its users on any subject. This is an example of how language technologies are becoming enmeshed in the linguistic infrastructure of the internet, despite the unresolved ethical debates surrounding these cutting-edge systems. […]
07
Jan
Former co-leader of Google’s Ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru, thinks that AI needs to slow down
On May 18 2021, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the rollout of LaMDA, a large language model (LLM) system that can chat with its users on any subject. This is an example of how language technologies are becoming enmeshed in the linguistic infrastructure of the internet, despite the unresolved ethical debates surrounding these cutting-edge systems. […]
Companies like Google and Facebook are deploying large language models (LLMs) for translation and content moderation. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s GPT-2 and GPT-3 are the most powerful language models that are able to write exceptionally convincing passages of text in a range of different styles (as well as complete musical compositions and finish writing computer code). Start-ups, […]
The Israeli startup DeepDub claims that it can dub films, television shows, and video games while retaining the pitch and tone of the original actors in any given process. This allows them to recreate the voices of famous actors in other languages, as well as provide an efficient alternative to hiring voice actors to dub […]
For a long time, China has been one of the world’s major centres for cryptocurrency mining operations because of its relatively low electricity costs and cheaper computer hardware. The activity is so popular there that gamers have been known to blame the industry for a global shortage of graphics cards—which miners use to process crypto-currencies. […]