“We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization — all without task-specific training.”
“Tanguy noted that Kim Kardashian has around 50 times more Instagram followers than the Louvre museum. « It’s time to stop consuming daily the visual content of [social media influencers] and move over to a more inspiring visual diet, » she said. As Rankin notes, however, it’s not all bad on Instagram. « Please note: The majority of subjects preferred their original image, » he said.”
“At Intelligence Squared U.S., we’ve debated AI before – the risks, the rewards, and whether it can change the world – but for the first time, we’re debating with AI. ”
“Conquérir une terre où les seuls personnages humanoïdes issus de l’île sont des zombies qualifiés de « corrompus » est une image loin d’être fine. Le journaliste de Polygon, Colin Campbell, trouve que le jeu montre ces ennemis « avec la même vision exterminatrice que la majorité des colons avaient des gens qu’ils rencontraient dans les nouvelles terres ».”
“Around 250 bounty hunters and related businesses had access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data, according to documents obtained by Motherboard. The documents also show that telecom companies sold data intended to be used by 911 operators and first responders to data aggregators, who sold it to bounty hunters. The data was in some cases so accurate that a user could be tracked to specific spots inside a building.”
“Le système d’alarme de la firme, destiné au grand public, se compose de capteurs de mouvements, d’un clavier et d’une enceinte liés à une application. Mais la société californienne a également révélé la présence d’un microphone, activé récemment pour transformer l’appareil en enceinte connectée. Alors que le produit est disponible à la vente depuis novembre 2017, la société n’en avait jamais parlé.”
“Waymo is in advanced talks to develop autonomous cars with Renault SA, Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that would join a leading self-driving force with the world’s largest automotive alliance.”
“Called Screenwise Meter, the iOS and Android app gave users who opted into Google’s Opinion Rewards program gift cards in exchange for tracking their internet usage data. The iOS version of the app relied on Apple’s enterprise program, which allows for the distribution of apps with special privileges to be used only by a company’s employees. The app has now been disabled on iOS, though it’s still available on Google’s Play Store. ”
“Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, plans to integrate the social network’s messaging services — WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger — asserting his control over the company’s sprawling divisions at a time when its business has been battered by scandal.”
“After training our agents for an additional week, we played against MaNa, one of the world’s strongest StarCraft II players, and among the 10 strongest Protoss players. AlphaStar again won by 5 games to 0, demonstrating strong micro and macro-strategic skills. “I was impressed to see AlphaStar pull off advanced moves and different strategies across almost every game, using a very human style of gameplay I wouldn’t have expected,” he said. “I’ve realised how much my gameplay relies on forcing mistakes and being able to exploit human reactions, so this has put the game in a whole new light for me. We’re all excited to see what comes next.”