Google software engineer Blake Lemoine claims that the company’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) chatbot is sentient — and that he can prove it. The company recently placed Lemoine on leave after he released transcripts he says show that LaMDA can understand and express thoughts and emotions at the level of […]
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The Weekly Authority: 👀 Pixel Fold renders break cover
⚡ Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 224th edition here, with Pixel Fold renders, our Reader’s Choice Phone of the Year Awards winner, sad Noodle news, everything you missed at The Game Awards, and […]
Wordle players break streaks to support New York Times union walkout
Comment on this story Comment What would it take for you to break your Wordle streak? On Thursday, the Times Guild, a union representing a variety of employees at the New York Times, staged a one-day walkout as part of a high-profile contract bargaining process in which the union and […]
It’s time to break up Big Tech’s media monopoly
It is no top secret that Large Tech’s information and facts monopoly has developed a big problem for information publishers and articles creators across the U.S. Google Information, Facebook News, and analogous information aggregator web pages drive a great deal of targeted visitors to their respective web sites by presenting […]