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If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings … Read more

During the third global artificial intelligence (AI) summit in Paris, dozens of governments and companies outlined their commitments to making the technology open, sustainable and work for “public interest”, but AI experts believe there is a clear tension in the direction of travel. Speaking with Computer Weekly, AI Action Summit attendees highlighted how AI … Read more

This year, hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent to scale AI systems in pursuit of superhuman capabilities. CEOs of leading AI companies, such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk, expect that within the next four years, their systems will be smart enough to do most cognitive work—think any job that can … Read more

WTF?! Old hardware typically slows down over time as newer software becomes less optimized and components degrade with age. However, speedrunners and researchers have discovered the opposite effect on the SNES. While the phenomenon is intriguing, its impact on gameplay remains purely theoretical. Tinkerers and speedrunners have recently discovered that the audio processors in many … Read more