Human Archive, a startup founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.
Some thoughts on personal agents, edge computing, trust, privacy, productivity, and autonomous task-oriented future systems.
For years, UMG has pushed platforms, streaming services, and AI companies to implement stricter content moderation policies
Today, I’m talking with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a conversation we recorded just after the Google I/O developer conference. This is the fifth year Sundar and I have sat down after I/O, and it’s become one of my favorite Decoder traditions. There’s always a lot of news at I/O, and this year […]
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A surprisingly easy way to multiply an AI model’s profit is to drive decisions via expected value instead of predictive scores. Here’s how, illustrated with fraud detection.
There’s this alarming trend in the Suno subreddit. People aren’t just prompting AI songs; they’re sitting around listening almost exclusively to their own slop. And in some cases, they proudly proclaim that they don’t listen to music on traditional streaming platforms anymore – it’s just AI all day. “Does anyone just listen to their own […]
When building is cheap, capital becomes the moat. Inside the new logic of billion-dollar valuations before the first product ships.
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems, is hosted twice a year at the United Nations in Geneva. When Branka Marijan attended in November 2017, she thought the five-day sessions – which dealt largely in hypotheticals, speculating on a world where warfare was fought with killer robots […]
As generative AI makes production faster and cheaper, ten global creators argue that value is shifting toward taste, systems, emotional intelligence and human authorship.