NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishri…
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/george-carlins-heirs-sue-comedy-podcast-over-ai-generated-impression/
Lawsuit: AI-generated comedy special is “not a creative work”, just “output generated by a technological pro…
It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"They say that when Ariadne wed Liber [Dionysos] on the island of Dia [Naxos], and all the gods gave her wedding gifts, she first received this crown as a gift from Venus [#Aphrodite] and the Horae (Seasons)."
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Last year, I wrote a post on @… #DistributedTracing to understand more about the subject. I also created a demo around it. I’ve recently improved the demo to deepen my understanding and want to share my learning.
The US government has suspended its effort to survey #cryptocurrency #mining operations over their ballooning energy use following a lawsuit from an industry that has been accused by environmental groups of fueling the climate crisis.
A federal judge in Texas has granted a temporary order
When you set your paperclip optimizers to optimize for "engagement," this is the obvious, inevitable result.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-28/twitter-x-fighting-bot-problem-as-ai-spam-fl…
College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right https://theconversation.com/college-administrators-are-falling-into-a-tried-and-true-trap-laid-by-the-right-228732
A look at the rise and fall of Emad Mostaque and Stability AI, including how Mostaque's relationship with Coatue and Lightspeed blossomed and fell apart (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2024/03/27/inside-stability-ai-em…