A subsequent update has made them more palatable and truer to life, and Apple says it’s continuing to work on the 3D captures.
The company on Tuesday debuted “spatial” Personas for Vision Pro headsets running visionOS 1.1 or later.
From there, users can select the spatial persona option, which utilizes the Vision Pro’s on-board sensors to place the Persona in the room with them.
Spatial audio, meanwhile, further places them at a specific point in space relative to the Vision Pro user.
Vision Pro users will continue doing business in the uncanny valley for the foreseeable future.
A group of 200 musicians signed an open letter calling on tech companies and developers to not undermine human creativity with AI music generation tools.
“When used irresponsibly, AI poses enormous threats to our ability to protect our privacy, our identities, our music and our livelihoods,” the letter reads.
Some companies like Adobe and Stability AI are working on AI music generators that use licensed or royalty-free music.
But these tech companies aren’t listening.
“This assault on human creativity must be stopped,” the musicians’ letter says.
Y Combinator President Garry Tan took to the social platform X Tuesday to again express his displeasure at elected officials representing San Francisco, where the storied accelerator is based.
This time, he was lambasting California state assembly member Matt Haney, over a proposed late-night email bill he authored.
Haney represents San Francisco in the state’s house-of-representatives equivalent.
Meaning they’d have the legal right to ignore calls, emails, texts or messages sent after that time, unless an emergency, and employers in violation could be subject to fines, The San Francisco Standard reported.
He went on a rant in January on X about seven San Francisco supervisors that took a violent tone.
We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized.
Kristine Gloria leads the Aspen Institute’s Emergent and Intelligent Technologies Initiative — the Aspen Institute being the Washington, D.C.-headquartered think tank focused on values-based leadership and policy expertise.
What are some issues AI users should be aware of?
What is the best way to responsibly build AI?
How can investors better push for responsible AIOne specific task, which I admire Mozilla Ventures for requiring in its diligence, is an AI model card.
“Building data models is best done in Python, but many of my team members only understood spreadsheets,” Kircos told TechCrunch.
“Quadratic is on a mission to build the best tool for understanding data,” Kircos said.
“Quadratic is a brand-new type of spreadsheet, not an Excel clone,” Kircos said.
There’s Sourcetable, whose headlining features include real-time document collaboration, data syncing with business apps and an editor for querying large data sets.
Neptyne, which launched in March 2023, is building a Python-powered spreadsheet targeting data scientists.
Hiring portal Indeed has redesigned the profile page for users, allowing individuals to use an AI-powered writer to fill up work experience and also added support for multiple resumes.
The company has also launched a set of smart sourcing suites for recruiters with features like AI-powered candidate summaries and custom messages.
The new AI-powered work experience writer helps people form better descriptions of different projects.
The job seeking portal already had a toggle to make a user’s profile visible to recruiters.
Indeed is also adding AI-powered smart messaging and automated interview scheduling.
Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” has been out for only a few days, yet it’s already obvious that we’ll be talking about it for years to come — it’s breaking records across streaming platforms, and the artist herself calls it “the best music [she’s] ever made.” But in the middle of the press release for “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé made an unexpected statement against the growing presence of AI in music.
Some of the best-known AI companies, like Open AI and Stability AI, use datasets that include copyrighted artworks without consent.
Beyoncé’s stance makes even more sense in the context of “Cowboy Carter” itself.
Though it does not explicitly discuss AI, “Cowboy Carter” already addresses the theft and appropriation of artworks without consent.
Even the title “Cowboy Carter” nods to the appropriation of Black music for white people’s gain.
We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized.
Kate Devlin is a lecturer in AI and society at King’s College London.
I guess it’s a two-pronged thing: we need more women in visible, top positions, and we need to tackle sexism in schools and beyond.
What are some issues AI users should be aware of?
Hold the companies responsible for considering things like human rights, labor, sustainability and social impact in their AI supply chain.
This week in AI, I’d like to turn the spotlight on labeling and annotation startups — startups like Scale AI, which is reportedly in talks to raise new funds at a $13 billion valuation.
Labeling and annotation platforms might not get the attention flashy new generative AI models like OpenAI’s Sora do.
Without them, modern AI models arguably wouldn’t exist.
Labels, or tags, help the models understand and interpret data during the training process.
Some of the tasks on Scale AI take labelers multiple eight-hour workdays — no breaks — and pay as little as $10.
Google.org, Google’s charitable wing, is launching a new program to help fund nonprofits developing tech that leverages generative AI.
Called Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI, the program is to be funded by $20 million in grants and include 21 nonprofits to start, including Quill.org, a company creating AI-powered tools for student writing feedback, and World Bank, which is building a generative AI app to make development research more accessible.
“Generative AI can help social impact teams be more productive, creative and effective in serving their communities,” Annie Lewin, director of global advocacy at Google.org, said in a blog post.
But there remain significant barriers for nonprofits looking to build their own AI solutions or adopt third-party products — chiefly cost, resources and time.
Nonprofit accelerator Fast Forward said that this year, more than a third of applicants for its latest class were AI companies.
