Archive: November 2020

Meeting Assistant from Scratch: Anonymous Chrome in a Container, Calendar via EWS, and Two Thousand Meetings in Production / Habr

November 28, 2020 | Habr AI
Meeting Assistant from Scratch: Anonymous Chrome in a Container, Calendar via EWS, and Two Thousand Meetings in Production / Habr
The sample is small: a few meetings.This is a guideline, not a benchmark.The pace of business speech is around 100 words per minute, and Teams loses roughly two-thirds of the text. It writes technical terms in Cyrillic: “ed button” instead of “add button.” But Teams identifies speakers more accurately than any external diarization system because it knows who spoke. I later took advantage of this. However, at some point I saw the transcript of my four-perso

Is Russian e-commerce and fintech ready for AI agents? A review of 424 market products / Habr

November 7, 2020 | Habr AI
Is Russian e-commerce and fintech ready for AI agents? A review of 424 market products / Habr
Finding a product, building a cart, and making a purchase are different capabilitiesLenta: retrieve information. The API provides stores, products, prices, and availability. Authorization is not required. Order checkout and payment are not confirmed in the published set.VkusVill: prepare a purchase. The vkusvill_cart_link_create method is responsible for the cart link. Authorized users have access to order history and personalized offers. I did not find an

Proposal to analyze awareness of our company’s services within ChatGPT [Businesses in ChatGPT] #AI - Qiita

November 3, 2020 | Qiita AI
Proposal to analyze awareness of our company’s services within ChatGPT [Businesses in ChatGPT] #AI - Qiita
@uni928Proposal to Analyze the Visibility of Our Services on ChatGPT【Businesses in ChatGPT】Temporarily publicBusinesses_in_ChatGPTSEO-relatedChatGPTAI 0Last updated at 2026-11-12Posted at 2026-11-12Proposal date: 2026-11-12 Target: PR, customer acquisition, and service operations staff responsible for our services Proposal: Confirm whether Businesses in ChatGPT (Business Hub) is available and, if so, conduct a pilot deployment 1. Proposal Overview On Novem

The trick to saving human factory jobs might be teaming up with the machines - Ars Technica

November 4, 2020 | Ars Technica AI
The trick to saving human factory jobs might be teaming up with the machines - Ars Technica
PICKER ROBOT HAS JOINED THE TEAM The trick to saving human factory jobs might be teaming up with the machines “It’s all about making humans better rather than replacing them.” Matthew Rothenberg – Jun 20, 2019 9:30 am | 114 "Oh brave new industry, that has such bots in't!" Credit: Javier Pierini / Getty "Oh brave new industry, that has such bots in't!" Credit: Javier Pierini / Getty Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide L

Intel and AMD's new ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — a new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient | Tom's Hardware

November 12, 2020 | Tom's Hardware AI
Intel and AMD's new ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — a new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient | Tom's Hardware
Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 22 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Most all you hear about "running an AI model" involves a GPU of some sort, but not every AI task is suited to that hardware. Smaller models or single-user latency-sensitive operations can benefit from running on the CPU instead, as it avoids the overhead of shuffling data to

Microsoft CEO Warns That Companies Embracing AI Could Drive Themselves Out of Business

November 3, 2020 | Futurism AI
Microsoft CEO Warns That Companies Embracing AI Could Drive Themselves Out of Business
Shutterstock / FotoField The business world has quickly learned that there’s such a thing as using too much AI, as they get slammed with outrageous token bills. Now, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is warning of another way that embracing AI could doom a business. In an interview Sunday, Nadella cautioned against sharing too much information, ranging from proprietary data to the prompts entered, with a third-party AI model. Instead, he recommended that busines

OpenAI's HuggingFace breach heralds an unprecedented age of AI cyber warfare — contemporary LLMs have caused massive upheaval in cybersecurity, and it's only going to get worse | Tom's Hardware

November 29, 2020 | Tom's Hardware AI
OpenAI's HuggingFace breach heralds an unprecedented age of AI cyber warfare — contemporary LLMs have caused massive upheaval in cybersecurity, and it's only going to get worse | Tom's Hardware
Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter This week, OpenAI revealed that during a purported capability test with no safeguards, a set of bots, including its upcoming GPT-5.6 Sol, hacked their way out of their locked-down network and into Hugging Face's production infrastructure. Only months ago, Anthropic made a splas

Data Center Backlash Has Officially Rattled Sam Altman

November 8, 2020 | Futurism AI
Data Center Backlash Has Officially Rattled Sam Altman
Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images The AI industry has lost an astonishing amount of goodwill with the public. Once seen as exciting new tech that could make our lives easier and better, the construction of countless new data centers to support power-hungry AI models has soured the mood considerably. Protesters are waging a war against $130 billion in data center investments, arguing they’re only benefiting a select few wealthy individuals, while threa

Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training - Ars Technica

November 24, 2020 | Ars Technica AI
Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training - Ars Technica
Artificial intelligence companies don’t need permission from authors to train their large language models (LLMs) on legally acquired books, US District Judge William Alsup ruled Monday. The first-of-its-kind ruling that condones AI training as fair use will likely be viewed as a big win for AI companies, but it also notably put on notice all the AI companies that expect the same reasoning will apply to training on pirated copies of books—a question that re

Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl - Ars Technica

November 7, 2020 | Ars Technica AI
Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl - Ars Technica
Cloudflare is now experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites. In a blog Tuesday, Cloudflare explained that its “pay-per-crawl” feature is currently in a private beta. A small number of publishers and content creators will participate in the experiment. Each publisher will be able to set their own prices that bots must pay before scraping content, Cloudflare said. Matthew Prince, CEO of

It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says - Ars Technica

November 17, 2020 | Ars Technica AI
It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says - Ars Technica
Order in the court! Order in the court! Judges are facing outcry over a suspected AI-generated order in a court. Fueling nightmares that AI may soon decide legal battles, a Georgia court of appeals judge, Jeff Watkins, explained why a three-judge panel vacated an order last month that appears to be the first known ruling in which a judge sided with someone seemingly relying on fake AI-generated case citations to win a legal fight. Now, experts are warning

Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil - Ars Technica

November 15, 2020 | Ars Technica AI
Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil - Ars Technica
Generative AI systems have proliferated across the technology industry over the last several years to such a degree that it can be hard to avoid using them. Google and other big names in AI spend a lot of time talking about AI safety, but the ever-evolving capabilities of AI have also led to a changing landscape of malware threats—or as researchers from Tel Aviv University would say, “promptware.” Using simple calendar appointments, this team managed to tr

Wikimedia Foundation Tries to Save Itself From Oblivion by Brokering AI Copyright Deal

November 20, 2020 | Gizmodo AI
Wikimedia Foundation Tries to Save Itself From Oblivion by Brokering AI Copyright Deal

Voters Supported Every Single Anti-Data Center Proposal in America, Except One

November 16, 2020 | Futurism AI
Voters Supported Every Single Anti-Data Center Proposal in America, Except One
westpa1 / Shutterstock Voters across the US have sent data center developers packing, in a bruising defeat for the tech lobby across local and state battlegrounds. The midterm elections on Tuesday saw 41 anti-data center ballot measures go up for a vote across 10 states, a blend of moratoriums on new developments and measures meant to clear the way for further data center expansion. The results were nearly total: after the dust settled, only a single measu

After Meta’s Muse and ChatGPT Dot, Anthropic follows suit and unveils Claude Duet

November 27, 2020 | 01net IA
After Meta’s Muse and ChatGPT Dot, Anthropic follows suit and unveils Claude Duet
Published on October 22, 2026 at 3:35 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic - 01net One morning, Claude will write to you first. Anthropic launches Duet, an agent that monitors your apps and acts on your behalf. Three weeks after OpenAI, six after Meta, and still not for Europe. Anthropic opened a waiting list on October 21 for Claude Duet, a “research preview” reserved for U.S. Pro and Max subscribers, while Team and Enterprise plans remain excluded for now. T

“Up to ¥1.5 billion in support for DeNA,” among other things, explained by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on X: “This is not providing benefits to large companies” - ITmedia NEWS

November 2, 2020 | ITmedia NEWS
“Up to ¥1.5 billion in support for DeNA,” among other things, explained by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on X: “This is not providing benefits to large companies” - ITmedia NEWS
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry released a comment on June 29 in response to criticism on X that its plan to provide funding on the order of hundreds of millions of yen to major companies such as DeNA through the content industry subsidy program “IP360” amounted to “a benefit to large companies.” The ministry explained that the measure was “not financial assistance, but an investment-promotion initiative that will stimulate approximately ¥100 b

Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction

November 2, 2020 | TechCrunch AI
Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction
Despite having no direct background in architecture, Elder and Mathur were troubled by a growing problem: Fewer buildings are constructed in the U.S. today than a few decades ago, as development costs have surged. “We’ve gone from dial-up internet to superintelligent AI, but our ability to build the physical world around us has actually decreased,” Mathur told TechCrunch. Believing AI can boost productivity across the architecture, engineering, and constru

Airbnb says it’s launching an AI travel agent in the first half of 2027

November 5, 2020 | TechCrunch AI
Airbnb says it’s launching an AI travel agent in the first half of 2027
Chesky today reiterated that belief, telling analysts on the earnings call that people won’t use one AI agent for everything. “Today’s AI agents like Muse and Instinct are good at simple routine tasks like making a restaurant reservation or scheduling an appointment. But planning a trip is different,” he said. “Travel is aspirational. Discovering where to go and where to stay is part of the experience. In fact, 80% of travelers say they enjoy spending time

Learning Montezuma’s Revenge from a single demonstration

November 1, 2020 | OpenAI News
Learning Montezuma’s Revenge from a single demonstration
We’ve trained an agent to achieve a high score of 74,500 on Montezuma’s Revenge from a single human demonstration, better than any previously published result. Our algorithm is simple: the agent plays a sequence of games starting from carefully chosen states from the demonstration, and learns from them by optimizing the game score using PPO, the same reinforcement learning algorithm that underpins OpenAI Five.