SAG-AFTRA Approves New Influencer Agreement
“The Influencer Agreement was created in response to the unique nature of Influencer-generated branded content and offers a new way for influencers to work under a SAG-AFTRA agreement. We want to be able to support both current and future SAG-AFTRA members in this space and for them to be able to access the benefits of union coverage,” said SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris in a statement to Backstage.
Previously, the union had covered advertising done by YouTubers. This new influencer agreement takes it one step further: it will cover advertising work across all social media platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, and TikTok.
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OpenAI and Stanford researchers call for urgent action to address harms of large language models like GPT-3
“Participants suggested that developers may only have a six- to nine-month
advantage until others can reproduce their results. It was widely agreed
upon that those on the cutting edge should use their position on the
frontier to responsibly set norms in the emerging field,” the paper reads.
“This further suggests the urgency of using the current time window, during
which few actors possess very large language models, to develop appropriate
norms and principles for others to follow.”
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A paper published last month by Stanford University Ph.D. candidate and Gradio founder Abubakar Abid detailed the anti-Muslim tendencies of text generated by GPT-3. Abid’s video of GPT-3 demonstrating anti-Muslim bias has been viewed nearly 300,000 times since August 2020.
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Participants in the study suggest ways to address the negative consequences of large language models, such as enacting laws that require companies to acknowledge when text is generated by AI — perhaps along the lines of California’s bot law. Other recommendations include:
- Training a separate model that acts as a filter for content generated by a language model
- Deploying a suite of bias tests to run models through before allowing people to use the model
- Avoiding some specific use cases
See the full story here: https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/09/openai-and-stanford-researchers-call-for-urgent-action-to-address-harms-of-large-language-models-like-gpt-3/
U.S. and China Already in an Arms Race for 6G Technologies
“Unlike 5G, North America will not let the opportunity for a generational leadership slide by so easily this time,” said Frost & Sullivan senior industry director of information and communications Vikrant Gandhi. “It is likely that the competition for 6G leadership will be fiercer than that for 5G.”
Canadian media has reported that China already “launched a satellite in November to test airwaves for potential 6G transmission, and Huawei has a 6G research center in Canada.” ZTE Corporation has also partnered with China Unicom Hong Kong to develop 6G technology.
In the U.S., the effort to “advance North American leadership in 6G” is spearheaded by the telecom standards developer Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), which launched the Next G Alliance in October. ATIS members include Apple, AT&T, Qualcomm, Google and Samsung Electronics — but not Huawei. In the European Union, Nokia is leading a 6G wireless project that includes Ericsson, Telefonica and universities.
Bloomberg reports that the fault lines created over 5G, centered around China’s Huawei Technologies and fears of “how 5G technology is being used by authoritarian regimes,” is very unlikely to change with the rise of 6G.
The capabilities of 6G include “a potential rate of 1 terabyte per second,” latency of 0.1 millisecond (compared to 1 millisecond for the minimum for 5G).
See the full story here: https://www.etcentric.org/u-s-and-china-already-in-an-arms-race-for-6g-technologies/
New Meta-Optic Lens Tech Enters Commercial Development
Instead, Metalenz technology is a “single lens built on a glass wafer that is between 1×1 to 3×3 millimeter in size” with nanostructures that “bend light rays in a way that corrects for many of the shortcomings of single-lens camera systems.” Company co-founder and chief executive Robert Devlin spent a decade at Harvard University working on his Ph.D. on this topic with Metalenz co-founder and physicist Federico Capasso. The company spun out of their research group in 2017.
Devlin said that the nanostructures enable them to bend and shape light “much in the way that a curved lens speeds up and slows down light to bend it.” The resulting image is “just as sharp as what you’d get from a multilens system,” with the nanostructures eliminating or reducing aberrations “common to traditional cameras.”
The company just announced a $10 million investment that will enable it to scale production and speed up development of miniature optics and a new lens system targeting smartphones, consumer electronics and applications in the automotive and healthcare industries.
Metalenz has inked partnerships with “two semiconductor leaders … meaning the optics are made in the same foundries that manufacture consumer and industrial devices — an important step in simplifying the supply chain.” The company is slated to “go into mass production toward the end of the year” to provide “the lens system of a 3D sensor in an [unnamed] smartphone.”
Devlin also pointed out that Metalenz technology can be used “in everything from instruments for healthcare to augmented- and virtual-reality cameras, to the cameras in automobiles.”
See the full story here: https://www.etcentric.org/new-meta-optic-lens-tech-enters-commercial-development/
Palantir leaps 15% after revealing partnership with IBM on artificial-intelligence applications
- Palantir soared as much as 15% on Monday after the firm revealed a new partnership with IBM.
- The companies will collaborate on an artificial intelligence product meant to help businesses leverage large data sets.
- Palantir has surged through the new year amid strong retail-investor demand and encouraging deal news.
See the full story here: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/palantir-stock-price-ibm-partnership-artificial-intelligence-product-announcement-pltr-2021-2-1030056072
