Time’s are hard for Big Tech, but the big three are certain there’s money in them-there machine learning models. And the more you mention AI the more revenue it generates, right? Let’s find out.
Yesterday, UK regulators blocked Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition, and today, Microsoft president Brad Smith is giving the UK both barrels in the press.
He told BBC News the deal was “bad for Britain,” marked Microsoft’s “darkest day” in the country, and that the EU “is a more attractive place to start a business.” Don’t hold back, Brad, tell us how you really feel!
The latest example is analytics firm Parse.ly, which said today it will no longer offer detailed info about how sites receive traffic from Twitter. It blamed the company for “dramatically” changing the terms of access for its API “on short notice.” Twitter is already a small traffic driver, but if publishers can’t see what it’s delivering, they’ll care even less, too.
We sometimes forget that, for all its faults, Twitter is still an important platform for sharing information online. Yes, it’s funny to see the $8-club complain about low engagement on their bad tweets, but impersonation and fake accounts can potentially have serious, real-world consequences, as Vox reports.
As per a comment from OP, the video uses a combination of AI tools (script by GPT-4, images by Midjourney, video by Runway’s Gen-2, voiceover by ElevenLabs) and the end result is... interesting. I mean, obviously not a good advert, but for 3 hours’ worth of work it’s also strangely compelling. Huh.
Schools are getting to grips with the impact of AI language models like ChatGPT, and UC Berkeley School of Law is one of the first to adopt formal rules, reports Reuters.
They’re pretty unsurprising: students can use AI for research but not to help write submitted assignments. With detection software unreliable, though, the whole thing is still a matter of trust.
