UploadVR editor Ian Hamilton says he received his first-ever invite from Apple to attend its WWDC keynote on June 5th.
Sure, such a thing could simply be a coincidence. But if you’re Apple and going to unveil your first mixed reality headset, it would certainly make sense to have someone from one of the leading VR publications in the audience!
From yesterday’s Command Line newsletter:
Throughout the series of closed-door policy panels yesterday, I’m told that global affairs president Kent Walker and other Google execs fielded pointed questions about the company’s use of personal data for everything from large language models to ad targeting. Applying copyright law to generative AI was discussed but seemingly not a top concern for the room. Instead, most of the questions were about the use of AI as it relates to user privacy and safety. Regulators wanted to know how Google thinks about using sensitive data from both individual users and enterprise customers for its training sets. And during a talk dedicated specifically to AI and search, concerns were raised about showing harmful, AI-generated results...
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In this week’s Command Line newsletter that just went out, I write about the differences between DeepMind and Google Brain, two separate research groups that Google is now combining in an effort to speed up its AI development:
The coming reorg will be a test of where power lies. Is it with Google’s leadership team, which clearly feels a newfound sense of urgency to ship AI products and consolidate focus? Or is it with the company’s highly-paid, increasingly-vocal AI researchers who have a plethora of competing firms knocking down their doors with job offers?
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We talked about the past year of Twitter chaos and what a wild ride it has been. You can listen below or add the show to your podcast player of choice at this link.
But the cost is “crazy” at about seven cents per query, CTO Andrew Bosworth recently told employees. From last night’s edition of my Command Line newsletter:
“That’s the only place in the company we’re really considering working with Microsoft and OpenAI, just because there’s a natural business integration there,” he explained. “Otherwise, we’re working on a companion that is more about all of our code and our internal documentation, built on our own infrastructure. We are moving very fast. I think we’ll have something to play with internally, I’m hoping in mid-June, maybe late June.”
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