Your smart devices are spying on you — here’s how to limit the privacy damage

Mar14
by on March 14, 2022 at 3:29 pm
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Have you ever felt a creeping sensation that someone’s watching you? Then you turn around and you don’t see anything out of the ordinary. Depending on where you were, though, you might not have been completely imagining it. There are billions of things sensing you every day. They are everywhere, hidden in plain sight – inside your TV, fridge, car and office. These things know more about you than you might imagine, and many of them communicate that information over the internet. Back in 2007, it would have been hard to imagine the revolution of useful apps and services that…

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Meta’s Yann LeCun is betting on self-supervised learning to unlock human-compatible AI

Mar13
by on March 13, 2022 at 3:00 pm
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This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. What is the next step toward bridging the gap between natural and artificial intelligence? Scientists and researchers are divided on the answer. Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta and the recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, is betting on self-supervised learning, machine learning models that can be trained without the need for human-labeled examples. LeCun has been thinking and talking about self-supervised and unsupervised learning for years. But as his research and the fields of AI and neuroscience have progressed, his vision has converged around several…

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Zoom etiquette: Yes, it’s OK to mute your face

Mar12
by on March 12, 2022 at 2:00 pm
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We’re now years into this great experiment in remote work. It started off as a Zoom, but now it feels more like a plod. Our work lives are lived on camera all day, every day—and it’s time to let people take a break. Face-muting is ok Communicating remotely isn’t new. For ages, we corresponded by mail. Then we added telegraphs, which increased the speed of communication. Then came telephones, which allowed us to communicate beyond cables. Fax, email, instant message—the communication options continued to grow. We didn’t see each other’s faces, yet business still thrived. Video calls are great for…

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