40% off TNW Conference! What are our origins? Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW. With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies. Also tagged with
Now,Microsoftsgot me excited again, and, well, skeptical. This week, the tech giantpublisheda filed patent, called Smart fabric that recognizes objects and touch input. In other words, Microsoft is developing fabric that can recognize and identify objects nearby. So what do you mean by smart fabric? In the case of Microsoft, the patent is for fabric in a jeans pocket. The fabric is embedded with layers of connected sensors that can recognize an object or gesture....
A language model bigger than GPT-3 has arrived with a bold ambition: freeingAIfrom Big Techs clutches. Its also multilingual unlikeGooglesLaMDA and OpenAIs GPT-3 an unusual feature in an English-dominated field. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. These features could democratize access to technology thats set to make a deep impact on society. Powerful AI models can be trained and released in an open way. Theyre also adeptat producing harmful content and their future capabilities aredifficult to predict....
Are you looking for your next developer role? Research commissioned by Ordnance Surveyrevealed that sustainability projects are an increasing area of focus for software developers. Thats because they offer job satisfaction, higher pay, and unique problem-solving opportunities. Unsurprisingly, it found that the developers were motivated by the opportunity todo something positive for the world. But working in this space also revealed a couple of less anticipated perks. 40% off TNW Conference!...
Three of the four winning entries were designed in tandem with IBM. And the person who wrote the fourth has since been hired by Big Blue. It turns out the big idea here involves making the world quantum safe, before thehack-now-decrypt-latertime-bomb goes off. As Crowder puts it, the story starts in the mid-nineties with Shors Algorithm. 40% off TNW Conference! The solution How do you prepare for a problem that doesnt actually exist yet?...
Interviews can be tricky. You always want to put your best foot forward. But sometimes one simple question can throw things completely off course. Often that question is, Why did you leave your last job? Of course, there are lots of reasons why you might be searching for a newcareer. Maybe you moved locations, decided to change roles, or simply wanted a new challenge. However, if you were laid off from your previous job, you oughta be honest....
Chinaimmediately denounced the claims as a lie. In 2019, China became the first countryto land a spacecrafton the far side of the Moon. That same year, China and Russia announcedjoint plansto reach the South Pole of the Moon by 2026. And some Chinese officials andgovernment documentshave expressed intentionsto builda permanent, crewed International Lunar Research Stationby 2027. If China tried to do this, it would risk international condemnation and a potential international retaliatory response....
We can model the motions of planets in the Solar System quite accurately using Newtons laws of physics. But Mond doesnt merelyexplainsuch rotation curves, in many cases, itpredictsthem. This makes it impossible to predict how quickly galaxies should rotate. But such predictions are routinely made with Mond, and so far these have been confirmed. 40% off TNW Conference! Mond makes a more definite prediction that the rotation speed must be in the range 180-190km/s....
Wikipedia is a unique fountain of free knowledge, but the worlds most popular encyclopaediaisnt always accurate. The sites crowdsourced editing model is prone to vandalism and biases. While its reputation for accuracyhas improved, even Wikipediadoesnt consider itselfa reliable source. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that oversees Wikipedia, regularlyexplores new solutions for these shortcomings. A new effort to address them harnesses the power ofAI. The AI team atMetahas launched a research initiative to improve Wikipedias citations....
Microsoft, I think, just launched the first real LLM product with thepublic release of GitHub Copilotlast week. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. It provides suggestions as you write code, something like autocomplete but for programming. However, contrary to GPT-3, Codex has been finetuned just for programming tasks. And it produces impressive results. The success of GitHub Copilot and Codex underline one important fact. When it comes to putting LLMs to real use, specialization beats generalization....
Thisarticlewas originally published onBuilt Inby David Ryan Polgar. Maybe Twitter should be a nonprofit, said the high-level Trust and Safety employee. Rumors were swirling about itspossible impending sale. Unfortunately, its ad-based business model was in obvious conflict with serving the public interest. That isnt a future Id want to live in. This happened in October 2016. Both Salesforce and Disney were rumored to be interested in purchasing the company. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....
Thisarticlewas originally published onBuilt Inby Alex Zito-Wolf. React JS is aJavaScriptframework with 10 years of maturity and a huge community supporting its growth and development. But you shouldnt learn it in 2022. First, a brief primer: React is currently the most popular front-end framework in the industry. What is React JS? React is currently the most popular front-end framework in the industry. React JS pluses You might choose to learn React for many reasons....
There are two realities when it comes toartificial intelligence. In one, the futures so bright you should probably put on welding goggles just to glance at it. AI is a backbone technology thats just as necessary for global human operations as electricity and the internet. But in the other reality, winter is coming. An AI winter, is a period in which nothing can grow. That means nobodys hiring, nobodys acquiring, and nobodys funding....
