After making a big statement about how ChatGPT could negatively impact student learning, New York City public schools are taking a step back and stating the AI chatbot isn’t so bad.
Sometimes, we give up on a species too soon. Just because it’s been a few decades or even centuries since a creature showed its face, doesn’t always mean it’s truly extinct. These so-called Lazarus species—named for a man resurrected by Jesus in the Gospel of John—often evade our notice because of their small size or…
This week, we’re focusing on Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), an annual event meant to promote the need for accessible tech solutions. Cherlynn returns to tell us what Apple, Google, Adobe and others are doing to make their products more useful for people with disabilities (and, it turns out, many general users too). We also discuss Sam Altman’s trip to Congress, and why we’re not entirely impressed with the OpenAI CEO’s calls for AI regulation. Finally, we explain why the BlackBerry movie is one of the best films about tech ever made (take that, Tetris!).
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Tech companies highlight new features for Global Accessibility Awareness Day – 1:27
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman goes to Congress and advocates for A.I. regulation – 34:24
Amazon announced a bunch of hardware: new Echo Buds, Echo Show and Echo Pop – 45:10
Montana’s TikTok ban has been signed, scheduled to go into effect in 2024 – 49:04
Working On (and Cherlynn’s experience on the ground at Google I/O) – 53:55
Pop culture picks – 1:04:44
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The Texas Republican demanded the beer industry investigate on its own — or have Anheuser-Busch apologize for the alleged Mulvaney infraction.
Couples in Mesopotamia could have been the first ones smooching as we know it. New research analyzing written records from the area reveals that people in the Cradle of Civilization could have participated in the oldest recorded acts of kissing.
OpenAI has launched a free ChatGPT app for iOS. It’s the first official smartphone app for the chatbot, joining a crowded field of third-party mobile AI software which also taps into the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 APIs powering ChatGPT.
It also allows switching between standard and GPT-4 language models for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, as well as conversation history (synced from your the desktop if you sign in with the same account) and the ability to export data and delete or rename conversations. It’s only available in the US for now, but the company says it will expand to additional countries “in the coming weeks.” It’s pretty much the same experience as the website.
At the same time, there are reports some tech companies are wary of staff using AI chatbots. (It’s already happened. In early April, The Economist Koreareported three Samsung employees shared confidential information with ChatGPT.) Apple reportedly fears someone inadvertently leaking proprietary data while using ChatGPT. To prevent that scenario, the company has reportedly restricted the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools, such as GitHub’s Copilot that can autocomplete code. The Wall Street Journal also says Apple is working on large language models of its own.
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Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two, has shared its projections for the future along with its yearly earnings report. And apparently, it’s gearing up for a year that will take the company “to even greater levels of success.” The company expects the titles it’s releasing in the fiscal year 2025 to help it achieve $8 billion in net bookings, or the net amount of products and services sold.
As IGN reported, Take-Two’s net bookings for the previous fiscal year reached $5.3 billion. An almost $3 billion jump in net bookings is massive, and unless Take-Two is making another huge acquisition, GTA is really the only franchise that would enable it to achieve that goal. It’s also one of, if not the, biggest AAA game series in the world.
Custom soda machines are old news. We need custom sauces, and Heinz is happy to humor us. Kraft Heinz has unveiled a Heinz Remix dispenser that lets you customize sauces through a touchscreen interface. You choose from base sauces and add one or more “enhancers” at your choice of intensity. You want a splash of ketchup with a strong jalapeño accent and a hint of mango? You got it. The company plans to test Heinz Remix at unspecified restaurants in late 2023 to early 2024.
Sony first shared information about its customizable controller back in January under the name Project Leonardo, and now we’re getting the finer details. The controller can be laid flat, placed at various angles and it can be installed on a tripod or other custom mount. The announcement brings it one small, and long overdue, step closer to offering parity with Microsoft, which released the Xbox Adaptive Controller back in 2018. However, the Access controller still has no release date or price, with more details coming “in the months ahead.”
The next Mortal Kombat game is Mortal Kombat 1, a “reborn” take on the series, which promises new fighting mechanics and game modes. While most details are under wraps, you’ll see many well-known characters as well as Kameo Fighters to help you mid-battle. And yes, the gore remains intact. A $110 digital Premium Edition will offer early access to the game (September 14th), a Johnny Cage skin that resembles actor Jean-Claude Van Damme and early access to playable characters and Kameo Fighters when they arrive post-launch. This makes me furious. Because Van Damme played Guile in Street Fighter: The Movie. And I’m easily angered.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-chatgpt-has-an-official-iphone-app-111532814.html?src=rss
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The Supreme Court has ruled that Andy Warhol has infringed on the copyright of Lynn Goldsmith, the photographer who took the image that he used for his famous silkscreen of the musician Prince. Goldsmith won the justices over 7-2, disagreeing with Warhol’s camp that his work was transformative enough to prevent any copyright claims. In the majority opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, she noted that “Goldsmith’s original works, like those of other photographers, are entitled to copyright protection, even against famous artists.”
Goldsmith’s story goes as far back as 1984, when Vanity Fair licensed her Prince photo for use as an artist reference. The photographer received $400 for a one-time use of her photograph, which Warhol then used as the basis for a silkscreen that the magazine published. Warhol then created 15 additional works based on her photo, one of which was sold to Condé Nast for another magazine story about Prince. The Andy Warhol Foundation (AWF) — the artist had passed away by then — got $10,000 it, while Goldsmith didn’t get anything.
Typically, the use of copyrighted material for a limited and “transformative” purpose without the copyright holder’s permission falls under “fair use.” But what passes as “transformative” use can be vague, and that vagueness has led to numerous lawsuits. In this particular case, the court has decided that adding “some new expression, meaning or message” to the photograph does not constitute “transformative use.” Sotomayor said Goldsmith’s photo and Warhol’s silkscreen serve “substantially the same purpose.”
Indeed, the decision could have far ranging implications for fair use and could influence future cases on what constitutes as transformative work. Especially now that we’re living in the era of content creators who could be taking inspiration from existing music and art. As CNN reports, Justice Elena Kagan strongly disagreed with her fellow justices, arguing that the decision would stifle creativity. She said the justices mostly just cared about the commercial purpose of the work and did not consider that the photograph and the silkscreen have different “aesthetic characteristics” and did not “convey the same meaning.”
“Both Congress and the courts have long recognized that an overly stringent copyright regime actually stifles creativity by preventing artists from building on the works of others. [The decision will] impede new art and music and literature, [and it will] thwart the expression of new ideas and the attainment of new knowledge. It will make our world poorer,” she wrote.
The justices who wrote the majority opinion, however, believe that it “will not impoverish our world to require AWF to pay Goldsmith a fraction of the proceeds from its reuse of her copyrighted work. Recall, payments like these are incentives for artists to create original works in the first place.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-supreme-courts-warhol-decision-could-have-huge-copyright-implications-for-fair-use-103547155.html?src=rss
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Twitter now allows premium subscribers to upload longer videos. The company updated its Twitter Blue perks to allow paying members to upload video files as long as two hours and as large as 8GB.
The new limits are significantly higher as the company seeks to make its platform — and subscription service — more appealing to people like podcast creators, indie filmmakers and one former Fox News propagandist. (Those sharing pirated content will likely see opportunities as well.) The two-hour limit doubles the previous maximum of one hour while quadrupling the standard 2GB file limit, as reported byTechCrunch. However, video quality is still capped at 1080p for everyone. Twitter initially added the one-hour perk for Blue subscribers in December, and it recently brought its media player up to modern standards by offering playback-speed controls.
The update also lets iOS users upload longer videos in the mobile app (after being web-only when the cap was one hour). Android users with longer-form footage will still need to use a browser. But a Blue subscription isn’t required to watch the lengthier clips; anyone can do that.
Elon Musk announced last week that former NBCUniversal ad sales exec Linda Yaccarino would start as the company’s new CEO, replacing Musk in the coming weeks. She “will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design and new technology,” he said on Friday.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/twitter-blue-subscribers-can-now-upload-videos-as-long-as-two-hours-161504628.html?src=rss
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