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OpenAI appoints new boss, Sam Altman joins Microsoft
Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman will join Microsoft. Microsoft is OpenAI's key business partner and has invested billions of dollars into the startup. Wired published what it said was a letter from some of Open AI's most senior staff members threatening to quit.
This Week In XR: CharacterAI In The Money, Tencent To Launch Quest VR In China Former Googlers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas raised $150 from Andressen Horowitz in March. This week our guest is Dr. Linda Jacobson, Ph.D., VR pioneer, founding staff member of Wired.
This report on teens having to view horrific material to train AI is a really sad read Wired spoke to a 15-year-old in Pakistan who said he earns money after school by logging into a site where he's paid to help train data sets used for AI. He earned $1 to $2 an hour on a site that uses crowdsourcing to train algorithms.
Teens had to view horrific stuff to train AI, report says Wired spoke to a 15-year-old in Pakistan who said he earns money after school by logging into a site where he's paid to help train data sets used for AI. He earned $1 to $2 an hour on a site that uses crowdsourcing to train algorithms.
Is it ok for millennials to feel sad that social media is over? Facebook, Twitter, and even Instagram feel dead. Wired writes about how first-gen social media users have "nowhere to go"
'Radical' review: Inspirational, even if you've seen it before - Los Angeles Times "Radical" is a lovely and touching true-life portrait based on Joshua Davis’ 2013 Wired magazine article. Director Christopher Zalla lays in enough credible obstacles to add effective tension and pathos to Correa's and the kids' journey.
Eugenio Derbez: How a Mexican teacher uncovered the 'next Steve Jobs' The movie is based on the real story of Paloma Noyola Bueno, who was featured on a 2013 Wired magazine cover as "The Next Steve Jobs" Paloma came from a poor community but got the top math score on Mexico's national standardized test.
Wired takes line honours in Coastal Classic Auckland-based yacht Wired has taken out the line honours in this year’s Coastal Classic yacht race from Auckland to Russell in the Bay of Islands. The unofficial time of just over 10 hours and 20 minutes (uncorrected) is more than twice the course record of 5 hours and 37 seconds. More than 140 yachts started the annual drag race, which was first run 41 years ago.
Borat director says making £200m movies is ‘ethically’ ‘offensive’ in current state of the world D***s was made for roughly $8m (£6.6m) according to Wired. The first Borat movie had a budget of $18m (£15m) Greta Gerwig’s recent, record-breaking Barbie adaptation made for approximately $150m (£117m)
Study Finds That Police “Crime Predicting” AI Fails Miserably at Predicting Crimes Geolitica, a predictive policing software used by police in Plainfield, New Jersey, was so bad at predicting crimes that its success rate was less than half a percent. A joint investigation by The Markup and Wired found that less than 100 of those predictions actually aligned with an actual crime.
Women-only Grace Hopper tech fair overrun by men identifying as ‘women’ The annual conference took place last week at Orlando, Florida. According to a report in Wired, droves of men turned up with resumes in hand. It’s considered a major networking opportunity for tech workers and admission costs vary between $649 and $1300.
Wired Wednesday: Latest Developments from Apple, Chat GPT and Microsoft Lisa Eadicicco, Senior Editor at CNET, joins Ryan Yamamoto for Wired Wednesday. They discuss Apple’s latest operating system, new upgrades with ChatGPT and Microsoft is rolling out a new AI tool.
Elon Musk's Neuralink trial volunteers 'should be concerned' after monkey deaths Neuralink has been approved for human trials and is looking to recruit paralysed volunteers. The company is particularly interested in people suffering from spinal column injuries and the deadly motor neuron disease ALS. Just a day after Neuralink was approved to start the trials, an investigation by Wired found as many as a dozen macaque monkeys suffered chronic infections, paralysis, and other horror side effects after receiving the chip. They eventually had to be euthanised as a result.
Elon Musk's Neuralink monkey test subjects died as a result of its brain implants; new report shows Elon Musk has claimed that "no monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant" A new article from Wired appears to contradict Musk's claim. According to public records obtained by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and reported by Wired, Neuralink's macaque test subjects were put to sleep after developing symptoms, including "bloody diarrhoea, partial paralysis, and cerebral edema"
The Social Media Panicmongers Have Pivoted to AI Artificial intelligence (AI) has in 2023 quickly eclipsed social media and smartphones as the technology du jour for secular doomsday preachers. Steven Levy, editor in chief of Wired magazine, wrote a scathing article in March 2023 titled, “How to Start an AI Panic”
Gamers rush to buy $54 gadget scanning for $27 with 3 free accessories thrown in and say it’s ‘awesome for... The Atrix PC Gaming Bundle is on sale at GameStop for just $26.98. The bundle includes a L-Series Wired Gaming Headset, a Wired Gaming Keyboard with RGB, a 7-button Wired Gaming Mouse, and a Mouse Pad that originally retailed for $54.97.
Google CEO isn't worried about falling behind on AI Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Wired that releasing Google's AI products before ChatGPT was launched "wouldn't have worked out as well" He said he was excited that people were "ready to understand and play with the technology" The comments come months after the CEO declared a "code red" for Google's search engine.
This story of when Steve Jobs 'blew up' over a photographer is a classic example of what his biographer called 'Bad Steve' Jobs apparently "blew up" when he learned the name of one of the photographers involved in the behind-the-scenes photos, according to Wired editor Steven Levy. Levy writes that the priority became managing Jobs and that Apple's PR had to "all but beg" the Apple CEO to continue with the photoshoot.
Xbox Series X owners are just realizing ‘double controller trick’ lets a co-pilot help with hardest gam... The tip was shared by Wired on Xbox Series X/S Tips to Level Up Your New Console. You can allow two players to play by using Co-pilot mode. Once the setting is on you and another person can tag-team a game.
Xbox Series X owners are just realizing ‘double controller trick’ lets a co-pilot help with hardest gam... The tip was shared by Wired on Xbox Series X/S Tips to Level Up Your New Console. You can allow two players to play by using Co-pilot mode. Once the setting is on you and another person can tag-team a game.
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