Business, Spoken

Language models like GPT-3 can write poetry, but they often amplify negative stereotypes. Researchers are trying different approaches to address the problem. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The companies revealed upgrades for their phones that protect data and reduce reliance on the cloud. It also binds users more tightly to their ecosystems. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

By employing a neural network, the company says its numbers will be more accurate—and allow it to offer to buy more homes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Systems in Boston, Cleveland, Las Vegas, and the San Francisco Bay Area are offering reduced fares or free rides. Others are considering abolishing fares altogether. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Black Lives Matter protests drew sympathetic public statements from investors in 2020. One year later, signs of progress are harder to find. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Unable to find enough workers, employers are turning to technology to perform tasks—and women are likely to be the hardest hit. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Pinduoduo, which recently passed Alibaba as the shopping site with the most customers, connects 12 million farmers to more than 800 million users. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Researchers applied AI techniques to make portions of Seattle look more like Beijing. Such imagery could mislead governments or spread misinformation online. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A list of incidents that caused, or nearly caused, harm aims to prompt developers to think more carefully about the tech they create. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Video from the cameras is often used in facial-recognition searches. A report finds they are most common in neighborhoods with large nonwhite populations. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

For decades, the federal government has issued a guide for designing streets. Activists want to make it better for pedestrians and cyclists. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The war on eggs started back in the ’70s, not with the company formerly known as Hampton Creek, but with a little cafe-grocery store in Los Angeles. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Georgetown researchers used text generator GPT-3 to write misleading tweets about climate change and foreign affairs. People found the posts persuasive. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company's first-ever union agreement could distract from more changes that need to happen, both within the gig economy and governments. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Microsoft reveals plans to bring GPT-3, best known for generating text, to programming. “The code writes itself,” CEO Satya Nadella says. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A study finds that users of advanced driver-assistance systems drive 4,888 more miles per year than similar drivers without the feature. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

It’s never been easier to invest in startups, and Gen Z is taking full advantage. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

When films are dubbed in another language, an actor’s facial movements may clash with his lines. Technology related to deepfakes can help smooth things over. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Stop Social Media Censorship Act almost certainly violates both the US Constitution and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The automaker says the battery inside the pickup can power a home for three days—useful in a world of fires, floods, and freezes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Gas taxes are the largest source of funding for highway construction and maintenance. As more cars plug in, that revenue is shrinking. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After tax credits, the base model of the electric pickup will be cheaper than its gas-fueled sibling, removing what has been a big barrier for EV sales. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Connected TV advertising brought in $9 billion last year and is poised to grow as more viewers shift from cable to streaming. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A software entrepreneur pivoted to making masks at the start of the pandemic. The experience opened his eyes: “I thought, ‘Wow, the US really is behind.’” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Talk is cheap, unless you’re an in-demand content creator for platforms like Clubhouse and its many clones. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Thousands of would-be investors are joining Discord groups that promise big earnings by manipulating the crypto market. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Alphabet-owned company is working with Liverpool to bring computer vision and statistical learning to the high-stakes world of sports. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company reveals a process that it says can cram two-thirds more transistors on a semiconductor, heralding faster and more efficient electronic devices. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The move is the latest fallout following the departures of the heads of the company's ethical AI research team and a recruiter. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Hashtags have provided a kind of emergency hotline—but the need for mutual aid on social media is also a rebuke to the government. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The game touted its use of the GPT-3 text generator. Then the algorithm started to generate disturbing stories, including sex scenes involving children. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

It’s all about how you define the market. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Shopping online means fewer unplanned purchases. Manufacturers and retailers are testing tactics to bring impulse buying to the web. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A new report shows that US mobile customers are tapping into the technology’s speediest networks less than 1 percent of the time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Workers from urban centers will continue to work from home, at least part-time. Officials and developers are planning the shops and services they'll want. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A transmission factory shows how artificial intelligence may creep into industrial processes in gradual and often imperceptible ways. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Most scholars thought the Isaiah Scroll was copied by a single author. New handwriting analysis just revealed otherwise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Kate Crawford, who holds positions at USC and Microsoft, says in a new book that even experts working on the technology misunderstand AI. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Programs such as GPT-3 can compose convincing text. Some people are using the tool to automate software development and hunt for bugs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The EU released draft laws that would regulate facial recognition and uses of algorithms. If it passes, the policy will impact companies in the US and China. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Consider it like Shark Tank on your phone: Every week on Angelhouse, founders make a pitch to a panel of investors as hundreds of people listen in. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company offers a feature called “Full Self-Driving Capability.” But it remains far from a self-driving car. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Amazon defeated the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s bid to represent workers at one warehouse. The union claims the company fought dirty. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The German automaker uses new software from chipmaker Nvidia to simulate train robots and human workers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company plans to buy Nuance, a speech-recognition firm that grasps the specialized language of medicine — tech that won’t be easy for others to replicate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In a record quarter for VC funding, California still takes the cake—further evidence that reports of the region’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The largest cryptocurrency exchange goes public through a direct listing, and it could make a bigger debut than Facebook. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Facebook is being sued for weakening data protections. Google is being sued for strengthening them. Can that paradox be resolved? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

During the pandemic, insurers accelerated the use of automated tools to estimate repair costs. Garage operators say the numbers can be wildly inaccurate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Facebook has been criticized for failing to curb misinformation in English. But little attention has been paid to the scale of the problem in Arabic. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices