from the move-fast-and-break-the-planet dept Meta’s agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch. The product, which features an animated avatar named Jolly (one presumes to make mass hyper surveillance seem adorable) is supposed to help you … Read more
I haven’t found much use for the personal assistant part of Muse. People on X (Twitter) keep using these assistants to order DoorDash or something. I order DoorDash like five times a year, so that’s not going to speed anything … Read more
In this post One odd session Following the name The model catalogue The Anthropic plumbing Why ship all of this? Is Meta distilling? Closing thoughts In this post One odd session Following the name The model catalogue The Anthropic plumbing … Read more
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — one of the US Department of Energy’s premier research laboratories, known for Nobel Prize-winning work in physics, chemistry, and materials science — operates some of the most advanced scientific facilities on the planet. Among them … Read more
I’m wrapping up my investigation into invisible watermark algorithms and I am extremely disappointed. Not only do none of the modern AI-based algorithms work as they claim, it turns out that they are all making the same fundamental mistake. I … Read more
Stella is the companion app for Meta’s smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index … Read more
On activation, Pyrefly silently writes disableLanguageServices = true to the user’sglobal VS Code settings for three named third-party extensions, without promptingthe user or notifying them in any way. These settings are never restored whenPyrefly is deactivated or uninstalled, leaving those … Read more
In 1917, American Tobacco launched an ad campaign for its cigarette brand Lucky Strike, with the slogan It’s Toasted. The campaign was designed to address the growing public awareness that cigarettes pose serious health hazards. The heat treatment of tobacco … Read more
Abstract Advances made through No Language Left Behind (NLLB) have demonstrated that high-quality machine translation (MT) scale to 200 languages. Later Large Language Models (LLMs) have been adopted for MT, increasing in quality but not necessarily extending language coverage. Current … Read more
“We want parents to feel good about their teens using social media,” says Instagram, as they fail to actually keep kids safe. When Meta announced last week that “Teen Accounts are bringing parents more peace of mind,” they failed to … Read more