Rivian’s gender discrimination lawsuit reinforces a sad trend in the auto world

Two days later, my boss fired me. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. A coincidence or a trend? The fact that women areunderrepresentedin the automotive industry is no secret. And I seriously doubt that the number has significantly gone up since then. That same year, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler alsosuedher ride-sharing employer four years ago. And, you guessed it, the lawsuit was about sexual harassment and gender discrimination....

November 8, 2021 · 1 min · 134 words · Sharon Thornton

Robots don’t care what Josh Hawley thinks about masculinity

In the wake of his speech, Hawleys decided to call masculinity one of his signature political issues. A man is a husband. A man is somebody who takes responsibility. On the surface, it might seem that Hawleys calling for moral action against the gaming and porn industries. But, apparently, he has no intention of doing so. This is more of a haughty criticism of US voters than a call to actually… act....

November 8, 2021 · 2 min · 281 words · Haley Frye

Startup harnesses self-supervised learning to tackle speech recognition biases

Speech recognition systems struggle to understand African American Vernacular English (AAVE). A startup called Speechmatics has developed a technique that appears to reduce this data gap. In comparison, the systems developed by Google and Amazon both recorded an accuracy of only 68.6%. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Speechmatics attributed much of its performance to a technique called self-supervised learning. As a result, they can enable AI systems to learn from a much larger pool of information....

November 8, 2021 · 1 min · 191 words · Ian Johnson

This Pre-Black Friday Sale on 10 top drones drops prices for almost all below $100

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The Vortex 9 is the definition of a trusty starter drone. That can help keep this drone in the air for almost three hours before you need a full recharge.

November 8, 2021 · 1 min · 37 words · John Harris

Watch: First-ever drag race between flying cars

Back in June, Australian startup Alauda Racingunveiledits Airspeeder MK3. The companydefines the aircraft as a full-sized remotely-operated electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL). The Airspeeder though isnt your average eVTOL its a flying race car. And its a true battle of speed, with the aircraft reaching over 154km/h during the video. The two teams were composed of Alaudas engineers and official remote test pilots. 40% off TNW Conference! Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW....

November 8, 2021 · 1 min · 96 words · Daniel Schultz

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While our reliance on internet connectivity expands, so does the threat against personal privacy. Concerned about interference from hackers who covet access to your sensitive data? 40% off TNW Conference! From rediscovering favorite photos to preventing the costly loss of crucial data, this plan has you covered. And protect it all with ultra-secure 256-bit AES encryption. Dont wait until Black Friday to get great deals on technology needs. For a limited time,pick up this bundle for only $76....

November 7, 2021 · 1 min · 101 words · April Johnson

Reinforcement learning makes for terrible AI teammates in co-op games

Artificial intelligence has proven thatcomplicated board and video gamesare no longer the exclusive domain of the human mind. Finding the gap in reinforcement learning 40% off TNW Conference! Early research of deep reinforcement learning relied on the agent being pretrained on gameplay data from human players. Dr. Ross Allen, AI researcher at Lincoln Laboratory and co-author of the paper, told TechTalks. One famous example was a move made by DeepMinds AlphaGo in its matchup against Go world champion Lee Sedol....

November 7, 2021 · 3 min · 488 words · Ashley Livingston

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November 7, 2021 · 1 min · 66 words · Nancy Ortega

The slippery slope of using AI and deepfakes to bring history to life

As they sing, the musicians stare at fadedblack-and-whitephotographs they hold. The young soldiers in the old pictures blink and smile back at them, thanks to artificial intelligence. The result is uncanny. The past comes to life,Harry Potter style. Weve found that AI has the potential to weaken peoplescapacity to make ordinary judgments. Now AI is making it easier than ever to reanimate the past. Will that change how we understand history and, as a result, ourselves?...

November 7, 2021 · 2 min · 347 words · Joel Lester

Don’t believe the headlines: AI isn’t uncovering any art mysteries

People tend to rejoice in the disclosure of a secret. So Im never surprised when I see AI-assisted revelations about famous masters works of art go viral. 40% off TNW Conference! They have not, in actuality, revealed one secret or solved a single mystery. What they have done is generate feel-good stories about AI. Are we actually learning anything new? Take the reports about the Modigliani and Picasso paintings. The company edited these X-rays andreconstituted them as new works of artby applying a technique called neural style transfer....

November 6, 2021 · 2 min · 251 words · Rachel Davidson

Everything you wanted to know about the metaverse (but were afraid to ask)

The idea itself isnt new. A virtual world:this is, in my opinion, the most important characteristic of a metaverse. Virtual reality.You need a virtual reality headset for this. Other people.The metaverse is social. There are lots of other people there, represented as avatars. Some of these avatars might be bots, virtual agents and manifestations of artificial intelligence. you might hang out with the other people or even do things together....

November 6, 2021 · 1 min · 209 words · Jamie Ellis

How to make almost any digital piano sound like the real thing, part 2

The trick is you dont use the sounds built into your digital piano. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Why is a piano VST better than the sounds in my digital piano? Long story short: Your PC haswaymore storage and processing power than any digital piano can muster. Other digital pianos are instead modeled, meaning they instead venture to mathematically recreate a pianos sound. Of course, a more expensive piano will likely have better keys....

November 6, 2021 · 3 min · 544 words · Jennifer Murphy

This pre-Black Friday sale on in-depth JavaScript training can make you a true coder in 2022

So, Python just overtook JavaScript as themost popular coding language in the world. So thats it, right? No need for any up-and-coming programmers to know it, huh? 40% off TNW Conference! Starting from scratch, this training gets users comfortable coding with JavaScript through whiteboard videos that explain it all. Students can even practice programming right in their web online window.

November 6, 2021 · 1 min · 60 words · Michael Bowman