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A significant proportion of people paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new study has found.  It takes an incredible amount of data to train AI systems to perform specific tasks accurately and reliably. Many companies pay gig workers on platforms like Mechanical […]

Ethan Millman / Rolling Stone:100+ artists including Tom Morello call for a facial recognition ban at live events and pledge to boycott venues using the tech, citing privacy and bias risks  —  The artists are among 100 other performers and venues calling for the ban of facial recognition technology at […]

Marvel artist: “Unethical, dangerous, and designed solely to eliminate artists’ careers.”

The first cultivated, or lab-grown, meat has been approved for sale in the US. Two California-based companies, Upside Foods and Eat Just, received grants of inspection from the United States Department of Agriculture today. It’s the final approval needed for each company to begin commercial US production and sales.   Animal […]

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:Microsoft aims to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years, after Microsoft researchers claim to create Majorana particles for scalable and stable qubits  —  Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company’s researchers …

“A work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any categories.”

Multi-tenant systems are invaluable for modern, fast-paced businesses. These systems allow multiple users and teams to access and use them at the same time. Machine learning operations (MLOps) teams, in particular, benefit greatly from using multi-tenant systems. MLOps teams that don’t leverage multi-tenant systems can fall victim to inefficiency, inconsistency, […]

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:ElevenLabs, whose AI tech can turn text into speech using synthetic or cloned voices, raised a $19M Series A, a source says at a $99M post-money valuation  —  ElevenLabs, the viral AI-powered platform for creating synthetic voices, has raised a new round of cash.

The Pixel Tablet and dock make a great combo, but software trouble doesn’t paint Android in the best light on Google’s own device.