Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI open sources Evals, its framework for automated evaluation of AI model performance, allowing users to report shortcomings and help guide improvements  —  Alongside GPT-4, OpenAI has open-sourced a framework to evaluate the performance of the company’s AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Alleged renders of the Pixel 8 Pro appear to show a flat ~6.52 display and the addition of a new sensor on the camera bar  —  Leak season is starting.  Following a retail leak of Pixel Fold and Pixel 7a just today, the first renders of Google Pixel 8 Pro have arrived, showing off a mysterious new sensor on the camera bar. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube launches early multiview access for YouTube TV, letting US viewers watch up to four, pre-selected streams simultaneously, initially for sports content  —  YouTube TV is today announcing a new feature that may help the live TV service attract more subscribers — and particularly those who like to watch live sports. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: Adept, which is building an AI model that can turn text commands into computer actions, raised $350M as part of a Series B, sources say at a $1B+ valuation  —  Chatbots rule the day in AI for now, but soon, Adept cofounder David Luan predicts, AI won’t just display unsettlingly human responses to typed queries, it will execute them. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav Söderström on the app’s redesign and improved discovery, layoffs, monetization, rivals, podcasting, HiFi, and more  —  Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav Söderström on the app’s redesign and improved discovery, layoffs, monetization, rivals, podcasting, HiFi, and more  —  Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. Lees verder op Tech Meme

William Shaw / Bloomberg: UK bank NatWest restricts transfers to crypto exchanges to £1,000 per day and £5,000 per month, citing a rise in scams, after similar moves by Lloyds and HSBC  —  NatWest Group Plc has restricted customers’ crypto activity, becoming the latest UK bank to put limits on the volatile asset class. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: GPT-4 has learned to be more precise and more accurate than its predecessor, gained the ability to respond to images as well as text, but still hallucinates  —  OpenAI has upgraded the technology that powers its online chatbot in notable ways.  It’s more accurate, but it still makes things up. Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI: OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist  —  Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit says its site is offline due to an internal systems issue and that the company is working to determine a fix  —  I’m consistently seeing an error message when trying to load Reddit on my Chrome browser.  —  “We’ve identified an internal systems issue and are working to determine a fix … Lees verder op Tech Meme