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So You Bought a Humane Ai Pin. Here's What You Can Do Next

WIRED

As of today, the Humane Ai Pin is dead--less than a year since its launch. Following an acquisition by HP, Humane shut down many of the core features of the artificial intelligence-powered wearable and deleted user data, rendering it useless. Yes, some functions remain, like checking battery life (useful!), but you can't access the voice assistant. If you spent 700 on the Ai Pin, you might be wondering what you can do now. These are the risks of being an early adopter, but not getting a refund on a device bricked before the warranty is even up feels like a rip-off.


I Finally Bought a ChatGPT Plus Subscription--and It's Worth It

WIRED

During my initial interactions with ChatGPT Plus, I was not fully convinced that OpenAI's $20-a-month subscription was worth it. While it was quite fun to test the upgraded chatbot powered by GPT-4, the free version seemed good enough for most prompts. I'm not a software developer who needs a deft coding assistant; I'm a nerd who uses chatbots to have entertaining conversations with artificial intelligence and brainstorm a little. On May 12, OpenAI announced that users who pay for ChatGPT Plus would be able to access beta versions of its chatbot with web browsing and plugins. Curious about the new features, I eschewed an evening of takeout, ate some gross leftovers, and spent money on finally upgrading my personal ChatGPT account.


Apple Has Bought a Startup That Uses AI to Make Music to Fit Your Mood

TIME - Tech

Apple Inc. acquired a startup called AI Music that uses artificial intelligence to generate tailor-made music, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, adding technology that could be used across its slate of audio offerings. The purchase of AI Music, a London-based business founded in 2016, was completed in recent weeks. The company had about two dozen employees before the deal. Technology developed by AI Music can create soundtracks using royalty-free music and artificial intelligence, according to a copy of its now-defunct website. The idea is to generate dynamic soundtracks that change based on user interaction.


Microsoft Has Bought a New AI Tool That Will Write the Code For You

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Software development is around a half-a-trillion-dollar industry that is always on the rise, adapting to emerging technology. Less than a year ago, a new language AI tool called GPT-3 hit the stage which is considered to have a huge potential. GPT-3, built by Open AI, is capable of writing in different styles, answering complex questions and writing bits of code. In September, Microsoft purchased license to the underlying technology. And now, the company's Redmond branch has announced their first product based on the program.


How Amazon Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Delivery Feedvisor

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At Amazon, artificial intelligence and machine-learning technology are not confined to one business segment. The technology is everywhere, utilized across the teams that back the Alexa suite of voice-activated devices, the Amazon Go stores, and the recommendation engine that cause "Frequently Bought Together" or "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" purchase recommendations to populate.


Bought for €100, World War II Enigma machine fetches €45,000 at auction

The Japan Times

BUCHAREST – Someone in Romania thought he'd made a fair amount of money when he sold an old typewriter for €100 ($115) at a flea market. The "typewriter" was, in fact, a German Wehrmacht Enigma I, a World War II cipher machine, and the collector who bought it put it up for sale at the Bucharest auction house Artmark with a starting price of €9,000. On Tuesday, Artmark sold it to an online bidder for €45,000. "The collector bought it from a flea market. He's a cryptography professor and … he knew very well what he was buying," said Cristian Gavrila, the collectible consignment manager at Artmark.


Algorithmia - Open Marketplace for Algorithms

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This Chrome extension uses FP-Growth to surface recommended products from other users who have upvoted the product you are looking at. This is similar to how Amazon's "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" recommendations work. Learn how to build and implement your own collaborative filtering recommendation engine today.


I Bought an Awesome (if Obscure) Piece of Space History!

Popular Science

Beginning in the mid-1950s, engineers started looking into the problem of aerodynamic heating; the challenge was devising a way to have a warhead launch on a missile and reenter through the Earth's atmosphere unscathed so it could explode on target. The same principle carried over into spaceflight. In the early space age, a man took the place of the warhead on those same missiles. This ultimately led to the ablative heat shields that kept Apollo astronauts safe during their fiery returns through the atmosphere before splashdown, but they were a new technology in the 1960s. That meant, that like so many piece of Apollo, it was proved during the Gemini program.


A preferential, pattern-seeking semantics for natural language inference

Wilks, Y. A.

Classics

Syntax, Preference and Right Attachment Yorick Wilks, Xiuming Huang & Dan Fass Computing Research Laboratory New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM, USA 88003 ABSTRACT The paper claims that the right attachment rules for phrases originally suggested by Frazier and Fodor are wrong, and that none of the subsequent patchings of the rules by syntactic methods have improved the situation. For each rule there are perfectly straightforward and indefinitely large classes of simple counterexamples. We then examine suggestions by Ford et a!., Schubert and Hirst which are quasi-semantic in nature and which we consider ingenious but unsatisfactory. We offer a straightforward solution within the framework of preference semantics, and argue that the principal issue is not the type and nature of information required to get appropriate phrase attachments, but the issue of where to store the information and with what processes to apply it. We present a prolog implementation of a best first algorithm covering the data and contrast it with closely related ones, all of which are based on the preferences of nouns and prepositions, as well as verbs.