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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

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After all, we in the information management and technology industry have talked at length about unstructured data since “Big Data” was big news more than a decade ago. Since those early days, the ratio of structured and unstructured data has shifted as the Internet, social media, digital cameras, smartphones, digital communications, etc.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon CEO says laying off 9,000 more workers ‘is best for the company long-term’

TechCrunch

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 A surprising turn of events : Paul has the latest on Amazon, which confirmed another round of layoffs, this time impacting 9,000 people in AWS (see below), Twitch (see Big Tech) and other units. million round to scale its recycling tech. Big Tech Inc. You want more?

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Daily Crunch: Experts say Musk’s open-source vision could make Twitter vulnerable to attack

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We know, we know — all of these puns are clucking terrible, but what is a poor pair of newsletter writers to do when they pull our favorite social media site from the stork exchange? It’s only rock ‘n’ roll but I like it : Social music platform BandLab scores $65 million at a valuation of $315 million.

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

TechCrunch

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. . I wasn’t a technology person. “Systems are made of people.

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10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021

TechCrunch

Matthew Hartman: The two largest social networks, Twitter and Facebook, removed the account of a sitting president and a set of related, follower accounts. These creators will leverage their existing brand, following and social media engagement to become entrepreneurs, building revenue streams across multiple different products.

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

As far as other types of foundation models go, recent work by Gary Marcus and Reid Southern has shown that you can use Midjourney (text-to-image) to generate images from Star Wars , The Simpsons , Super Mario Brothers , and many other films. It’s an interesting piece that I commend to you, but one that makes me uncomfortable. joined Flickr.

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Interview with an Intiface Haptics Engineer

David Walsh

So when it comes to sex tech, what’s it like to create experiences you feel instead of see? From a technical standpoint, what are some of the hallmark technologies and ideas behind the project? Trying to come up with a sort of “common technical language” for intimate haptics is a big part of the technical focus.