Tech Meme

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Paddy Cosgrave steps down as CEO of Web Summit, which plans to appoint a new CEO and the show, due to start on November 13 in Lisbon, will go ahead as planned  —  Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer of Web Summit after his remarks following attacks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Paddy Cosgrave steps down as CEO of Web Summit; Web Summit will appoint a new CEO and the show, due to start on November 13 in Lisbon, will go ahead as planned  —  Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer of Web Summit after his remarks following attacks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Lohr / New York Times: A look at the Allen Institute for AI’s plan to build “open” generative AI model OLMo; the nonprofit research center is led by former Apple ML leader Ali Farhadi  —  The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: A look at Discord’s new Warning System, which limits users’ behavior based on their violation instead of relying on strikes, and avoids permanent bans  —  Most platforms ban their trolls forever.  Discord wants to rehabilitate them  —  Today, let’s talk about how the traditional platform justice system … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: Research: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, and Claude had instances of promoting harmful, inaccurate, race-based content when responding to nine medical questions  —  As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors’ notes and analyze health records … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Irish Times: Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event’s co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes  —  Intel, Siemens and actor Gillian Anderson previously said they were withdrawing  —  Google and Facebook-owner Meta have become … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sanjay Gupta / The Keyword India: Google expands consumer and merchant credit features on Google Pay in India, launches new generative AI-based visual and local capabilities in Search, and more  —  Country Head & Vice President, Google India  —  With India looking at a billion connected people in the near future … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Bugs in the ChatGPT app reveal internal natural language prompts shared between DALL-E 3 and ChatGPT, including some commands written in all-caps for emphasis  —  Politeness and emphasis play a surprising role in AI-model communications.  —  Not long after OpenAI first unveiled … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature: London-based Samaya AI unveils an AI tool that suggests better Wikipedia references for citations the tool identifies as unlikely to support associated claims  —  – Chris Stokel-Walker 0  —  Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance journalist in Newcastle, UK.  —  You can also search for this author in Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitch now lets creators simulcast across any live streaming service, with caveats, and adds doxxing and swatting to its Off-Service Conduct enforcement list  —  Previously, streamers could simulcast on mobile platforms like TikTok and Instagram, but as of Friday, Twitch is significantly broadening … Lees verder op Tech Meme