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Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text (8 minute read)
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Instagram's co-founders, have announced Artifact, a personalized news feed that uses machine learning to understand users. Its systems are optimized to measure how long users spend reading about various subjects to reward more deeply engaging material. Artifact's waitlist is now open and the company plans to let users in quickly. The app is available for both Android and iOS. A link to the waitlist is available in the article.
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OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-generated text, including from ChatGPT (4 minute read)
OpenAI has launched a tool that attempts to differentiate between text written by humans and AI-generated text. Its success rate is around 26%, but OpenAI argues that it can be used with other methods to help prevent abuse of AI text generators. The tool incorrectly labels human-written text as AI-generated 9% of the time. It requires at least 1,000 characters, or 250 words of text, to run. OpenAI released the tool to get feedback on whether these types of tools are useful and to improve its method.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Companies Already Have the Ability to Decode Your Brainwaves (2 minute read)
Some companies are already likely testing technology used to decode our brainwaves. AI has enabled advances in brainwave decoding technology that were never before thought possible. AI-powered sensors can pick up EEG signals using wearable devices and decode emotional states, concentration levels, simple shapes, and pre-conscious responses to numbers. Surveillance of the human brain could revolutionize the workplace and bring positive change to people's lives, but it could also be used to control and exploit people.
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Gene editing company hopes to bring dodo ‘back to life’ (3 minute read)
Colossal Biosciences is a gene editing company that wants to revive the dodo. Dodos were closely related to pigeons. They were last seen in the 17th century. Gene editing techniques will have to be adapted for external eggs for the project. The researchers will be able to work with pigeon eggs. If successful, Colossal wants to attempt to rewild the birds in Mauritius, where they originally lived.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Git-Heat-Map (GitHub Repo)
Git-Heat-Map can create heatmaps for repositories and highlight files that specific users change the most. It scans through git histories to create a database that allows developers to keep track of which files or commits changed the repository the most. The database is used to generate an SVG image that represents a treemap of the file system.
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Canonical ESLint Config (GitHub Repo)
This package contains comprehensive ESLint configurations for many types of projects. Canonical consists of over 1,000 rules aimed at reducing noise in code version control. Overrides can be used to only apply relevant style guides to reduce linting time and number of false-positives.
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The race of the AI labs heats up (10 minute read)
ChatGPT attracted 1 million users within five days of its launch in November, making it one of the fastest consumer product launches ever. It is transforming how the tech sector thinks about innovation and its engines. Labs are now competing fiercely to gain the upper hand in the race for AI supremacy. The winner of the race will decide how quickly AI will become commonplace and who will dominate it. There is currently no clear leader as the researchers from competing labs are in close contact and many advances are made public.
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The Spaceport at the Edge of the World (18 minute read)
Melness is a small Scottish town along the desolate northern shoreline. The local development board, in collaboration with the UK government, suggested building a spaceport on the empty peatland behind the town. This would give the UK the opportunity to become the first European country to launch a small satellite. After careful consideration, the town held a vote to decide whether they would support it, with the majority voting in favor of the project. Construction of the spaceport is set to begin later this year.
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Marko (GitHub Repo)
Marko extends the HTML language to allow the building of modern applications in a declarative way.
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