TechCrunch Minute: Here’s why AI has a hard time spelling ‘strawberry’
Is AI going to take my job one day? I hope not. But in the meantime, I can do something that ChatGPT can’t: I can spell the word “strawberry.” Once again, some posts are circulating around social media that expose how high-powered AI text generators fail to know how to
Read MoreFlying through Sea-Tac’s hacked airport
Several days after the Port of Seattle announced a “possible” cyberattack on its systems, Sea-Tac Airport is still largely offline, causing chaos among travelers and acting as a standing warning against taking security lightly. Ask me how I know. The outage resulting from the recent hack has not, fortunately, caused
Read MoreThe guy who sued NAR over real estate fees has co-founded a startup
One of the people who successfully sued the National Association of Realtors (NAR) to change real estate commissions has co-founded a new real estate startup. It all began in 2017 when Josh Sitzer and his wife listed their home for sale in Kansas City. The couple was frustrated by the
Read MoreThe negative binomial distribution and Pascal’s triangle
The Poisson probability distribution gives a simple, elegant model for count data. You can even derive from certain assumptions that data must have a Poisson distribution. Unfortunately reality doesn’t often go along with those assumptions. A Poisson random variable with mean λ also has variance λ. But it’s often the
Read MoreRussian government hackers found using exploits made by spyware companies NSO and Intellexa
Google said the findings were an example of how exploits developed by spyware makers can end up in the hands of "dangerous threat actors." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreSocial network Butterflies AI adds a feature that turns you into an AI character
Butterflies AI, the new social network where humans and AIs interact with each other, is launching a new Clones feature that turns you into an AI character. This latest addition builds on a feature launched to the public back in June that lets users create AI personas, called Butterflies, that
Read MoreA strange take on the harmonic series
It is well known that the harmonic series 1 + ½ + ⅓ + ¼ + … diverges. But if you take the denominators as numbers in base 11 or higher, the series converges [1]. I wonder what inspired this observation. Maybe Brewster was bored, teaching yet another cohort of
Read MoreUK’s Wayve secures strategic investment from Uber to further develop self-driving tech
Uber is making a strategic investment into Wayve as an extension of the U.K.-born startup’s previously announced $1.05 billion Series C round. The partnership will also see the two companies work with automakers to integrate Wayve’s AI into consumer vehicles that will one day operate on the ride-hail giant’s platform.
Read MoreFrance formally charges Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, over organized crime on messaging app
After spending four days in police custody, the founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, was put under formal investigation in France on Thursday for a wide range of criminal charges. He was also released from custody on the condition that he does not leave French territory during
Read MoreAI dominates India’s Reliance annual general meeting
Reliance Industries, India’s largest company by market capitalization, is not sitting out the AI frenzy that has gripped the tech world. At the company’s annual general meeting Thursday, Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani made over 50 mentions of AI, detailing plans to integrate the technology across Reliance’s vast business empire. Reliance
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