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Google spares three Area 120 R&D projects, including team working on a ‘Gen Z consumer product’
Last week, we learned Google’s in-house R&D group, Area 120, had been severely impacted by the broader Google workforce reduction, impacting teams working on some of Google’s more experimental ideas. However, we understand now that at least three Area 120 projects have been spared from these latest cuts and will go on to “graduate” to […]
Google spares three Area 120 R&D projects, including team working on a ‘Gen Z consumer product’ by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Game devs remain skeptical about metaverse and blockchain projects | GDC survey
The Wall Street Journal: Unity Software to lay off more than 200 workers, some projects ‘going in the closet’
Bungie confirms multiple unannounced projects as part of Sony deal
A Bungie developer says the company is working on several unannounced projects, at least in part due to additional support under Sony’s 2022 acquisition of the company. The game development studio, most notable for Destiny 2 and the early Halo games, has primarily focused on its Destiny franchise for more than a decade.
In a series of tweets, Bungie Senior Design Lead Tom Farnsworth shared an update regarding his 11 years working on Destiny, culminating in more than 25 releases. He then followed up the tweet with another, in which he shared that there are several unannounced projects in the works at Bungie and encouraged developers to apply for open roles within the company.
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Katingan Mentaya Project Discusses How Local Community-Led Projects Can Make A Difference In The Fight Against Climate Change
Mitigating Greenhouse gases and world carbon & Methane emissions is a huge Challenge. Local communities have a major role to…
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Dungeons & Dragons owners Wizards Of The Coast have cancelled 5 unannounced projects
Wizards Of The Coast, the owners of the Dungeons & Dragons IP, have cancelled at least five unannounced games, according to a report from Bloomberg. In a statement, the company say they’re still committed to video games and that they want to “focus on games which are strategically aligned with developing our existing brands.” Fewer than 15 people have lost their jobs as a result, although Bloomberg report that they’ll be able to reapply for new positions within the company.
Femme It Forward Exclusive: Sevyn Streeter, Melanie Fiona, Brooke Valentine & More Talk New Projects at Gala
Femme It Forward has long championed female R&B singers and continued that celebration at the Give Her FlowHERS Awards Gala 2022.
Renowned for delivering dynamic live sets comprised of some of the most exciting collective line-ups of women, this night was the inaugural celebration of a movement that fills quite the void – in trailblazing fashion.
That Grape Juice was on hand and caught up with notable names such as Sevyn Streeter,
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Other Software Projects Are Now Trying to Replicate ChatGPT
This week, Philip Wang, the developer responsible for reverse-engineering closed-sourced AI systems including Meta’s Make-A-Video, released PaLM + RLHF, a text-generating model that behaves similarly to ChatGPT [listed as a work in progress]. The system combines PaLM, a large language model from Google, and a technique called Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback — RLHF, for short — to create a system that can accomplish pretty much any task that ChatGPT can, including drafting emails and suggesting computer code.
But PaLM + RLHF isn’t pre-trained. That is to say, the system hasn’t been trained on the example data from the web necessary for it to actually work. Downloading PaLM + RLHF won’t magically install a ChatGPT-like experience — that would require compiling gigabytes of text from which the model can learn and finding hardware beefy enough to handle the training workload…. PaLM + RLHF isn’t going to replace ChatGPT today — unless a well-funded venture (or person) goes to the trouble of training and making it available publicly.
In better news, several other efforts to replicate ChatGPT are progressing at a fast clip, including one led by a research group called CarperAI. In partnership with the open AI research organization EleutherAI and startups Scale AI and Hugging Face, CarperAI plans to release the first ready-to-run, ChatGPT-like AI model trained with human feedback. LAION, the nonprofit that supplied the initial dataset used to train Stable Diffusion, is also spearheading a project to replicate ChatGPT using the newest machine learning techniques.
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Top Solana NFT projects DeGods and y00ts to leave the blockchain and ‘explore new opportunities’
Two top Solana NFT projects, DeGods and y00ts, have announced they are leaving the blockchain in 2023, which is stirring up conflicting sentiments in the crypto community. Over the weekend, DeGods announced on Twitter that it will be migrating to Ethereum, while its sister project y00ts will be moving to Polygon early next year, the […]
Top Solana NFT projects DeGods and y00ts to leave the blockchain and ‘explore new opportunities’ by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch