Remembering Joanne Pransky
A version of this post original appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. It has been updated to include details about a new scholarship fund being raised in her honor. I didn’t know Joanne Pransky personally, so when news of her death broke late last month, I reached out to
Read moreExperiments with Bing chat
My two previous posts looked at experiments with ChatGPT and Google Bard. This post will look at redoing the same experiments with Microsoft’s Bing Chat: looking for mnemonic encodings and simplifying Boolean expressions. When you open up Bing chat you can select a conversational style: More creative More balanced More
Read moreIf cybersecurity isn’t recession-proof, what is?
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. It is always hard to know how a startup category will fare in a downturn. But if you
Read moreDeal Dive: Backing a founder again after they’ve spun out from their acquirer
It’s not often that a venture capital firm gets to back a startup again after it has exited — especially one that is still a private company. So when Builders VC got the call that the founders of cattle management software Performance Livestock Analytics (PLA) were looking to spin out
Read moreRecruiting and retaining tech staff using upskilling – Hashtag Trending interview with Tony Holmes from Pluralsight
I recently sat down with Tony Holmes from Pluralsight to discuss strategies for recruiting and retaining skilled tech workers. With demand outpacing supply for these roles, organizations must get creative. Holmes stressed that today’s tech pros expect investment in continuous learning. “If I’m going somewhere and they’re not talking about
Read moreBoolean function minimization with AI
I was curious how well LLMs would do at minimizing a Boolean expression, that is, taking a Boolean expression and producing a smaller equivalent expression. I didn’t expect good performance because this problem is more about logic than recall, but sometimes LLMs surprise you, so I wanted to give it
Read moreThreads, a Slack alternative completely unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge
Instagram’s Twitter clone Threads enjoyed a fairly fruitful first week in existence, sailing past 30 million users in the first 24 hours before passing 100 million signups within five days. And just yesterday, numbers from Data.ai indicated that Threads has now hit 150 million downloads. However, another completely unrelated app
Read moreThis week in robotics: Amazon’s iRobot deal hits an EU snag as new funding keeps hot drone summer rolling
This week brought in good news for the robotics space in the form of new investment for nascent companies, but two established players within the space hit a snag. Amazon’s potential $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, which had previously been approved by the U.K.’s antitrust regulators, is now getting an
Read moreMy Journey with Depth Estimation
Example of training images with true labelsI recently participated in the AICrowd Mono Depth Perception competition, a proud milestone in my machine learning journey. I secured 4th place and was awarded the “Most Creative Solution Award.” In this post, I’ll detail the challenge, my approach, and the lessons learned. I’ve also
Read moreProduction Engineering and Generative AI
Hi, I’m Jakob, and I lead engineering at a new Enterprise AI company. We’ve been working with a range of experts across enterprises to understand what our customers need to use AI effectively in production environments. I want to share some of the learnings we have been hearing.No one has all
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