Étiquette : digital economy (Page 2 of 31)

Francis Lalanne demande 100 000 € à Twitter pour « travail dissimulé »

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“Francis Lalanne travaillerait-il chez Twitter ? C’est en tout cas ce que le chanteur veut faire reconnaître. L’Informé a révélé le 28 avril 2023 que la star avait attaqué le réseau social aux prud’hommes, et qu’il l’accusait de « travail dissimulé » et d’« esclavage ». « Quand j’écris sur Twitter, je fais gagner de l’argent à Twitter », a déclaré le chanteur à L’Informé. « C’est comme si j’étais journaliste et que je travaillais gratuitement dans une rédaction. »”

Source : Francis Lalanne demande 100 000 € à Twitter pour « travail dissimulé » – Numerama

Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems

Steve Huffman leans back against a table and looks out an office window.

“Reddit has long had a symbiotic relationship with the search engines of companies like Google and Microsoft. The search engines “crawl” Reddit’s web pages in order to index information and make it available for search results. That crawling, or “scraping,” isn’t always welcome by every site on the internet. But Reddit has benefited by appearing higher in search results. The dynamic is different with L.L.M.s — they gobble as much data as they can to create new A.I. systems like the chatbots. Reddit believes its data is particularly valuable because it is continuously updated. That newness and relevance, Mr. Huffman said, is what large language modeling algorithms need to produce the best results. “More than any other place on the internet, Reddit is a home for authentic conversation,” Mr. Huffman said. “There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or A.A., or never at all.””

Source : Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems – The New York Times

Netflix is ending its DVD-by-mail subscription service

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“Netflix’s signature red envelopes have finally reached their end. After 25 years of sending discs of movies and TV shows to people through the mail, Netflix is discontinuing the DVD subscription business that started it all, the company announced in its Tuesday earnings report.
“There are titles you can’t find elsewhere. Their library was just huge compared to any sort of streaming option,” said Ann Silverthorn, who first started getting DVDs in the mail in 2009. “I really enjoyed being able see the trailers at the beginning of each disc. I would get so many ideas of new old movies that I might like to see and I’d write them down and sure enough, they’d be in their catalogue.”
“I signed up for it on my own as soon as I moved out of my parents’ house. I barely remember when there wasn’t Netflix,” said Wainscott, 38, who isn’t sure what she’ll do now. “Just getting better internet is not an option, and that’s a reality for a lot of people. People who live in big cities don’t always realize that.””

Source : Netflix is ending its DVD-by-mail subscription service – The Washington Post

Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data

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“OpenAI, Google, and other companies building large-scale AI projects have traditionally paid nothing for much of their training data, scraping it from the web. But Stack Overflow, a popular internet forum for computer programming help, plans to begin charging large AI developers as soon as the middle of this year for access to the 50 million questions and answers on its service, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar says.”

Source : Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data | WIRED

ChatGPT : comment ça marche ? | Sciences communes

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“Cela représente quand même beaucoup de travail. Mon hypothèse personnelle est que chatGPT a été conçu comme un moyen très efficace de collecter du “digital labor”. Le modèle conversationnel a été d’abord “entraîné” par des annotateurs de pays en voie de développement, en particulier au Kenya. Aujourd’hui environ dix millions d’utilisateurs uniques génèrent des dizaines de millions de textes par jours et envoient peut-être des dizaines de milliers de signalements. Ce n’est évidemment pas gratuit. Pour faire tourner chatGPT à cette échelle, OpenAI dépense probablement des millions d’euros par mois. Seulement, au-delà de la publicité énorme, OpenAI a réussi à collecter un corpus considérable d’annotations qui sera sans doute difficile à répliquer : quand les chatbots de ses concurrents (Google, Baidu, etc.) seront disponibles gratuitement, l’effet de nouveauté se sera un peu émoussé…”

Source : ChatGPT : comment ça marche ? | Sciences communes

I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Semiconductor Factory

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“By revenue, TSMC is the largest semiconductor company in the world. In 2020 it quietly joined the world’s 10 most valuable companies. It’s now bigger than Meta and Exxon. The company also has the world’s biggest logic chip manufacturing capacity and produces, by one analysis, a staggering 92 percent of the world’s most avant-garde chips—the ones inside the nuclear weapons, planes, submarines, and hypersonic missiles on which the international balance of hard power is predicated. Perhaps more to the point, TSMC makes a third of all the world’s silicon chips, notably the ones in iPhones and Macs. Every six months, just one of TSMC’s 13 foundries—the redoubtable Fab 18 in Tainan—carves and etches a quintillion transistors for Apple. In the form of these miniature masterpieces, which sit atop microchips, the semiconductor industry churns out more objects in a year than have ever been produced in all the other factories in all the other industries in the history of the world.”

Source : I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Semiconductor Factory | WIRED

Surveillance dans les gares: Le Conseil fédéral cautionne les nouvelles caméras des CFF

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“Albert Rösti apparaît alors un brin embarrassé. Il consulte les fiches que lui ont préparées ses services. «Le nouveau système d’analyse des données n’est pas créé à des fins de marketing, mais pour des raisons de sécurité. L’analyse des flux permettra de répondre aux besoins des voyageurs, notamment âgés ou handicapés».
Ce faisant, le conseiller fédéral reprend en gros le discours des CFF. Ces derniers expliquent que les images des caméras, outre l’amélioration de la sécurité, permettront «d’optimiser les plans de nettoyage, identifier les goulets d’étranglement, gérer correctement les flux de personnes et veiller à ce que la bonne offre se trouve au bon endroit, par exemple les distributeurs de billets ou les magasins d’alimentation».
Les CFF, sur leur site internet, sont un peu moins alambiqués que leur patron politique. Ils reconnaissent que l’analyse des données leur permettra aussi d’augmenter le chiffre d’affaires de leurs commerces. Ce qui diminue au passage leur dépendance envers le subventionnement du rail par les pouvoirs publics.

Source : Surveillance dans les gares: Le Conseil fédéral cautionne les nouvelles caméras des CFF | 24 heures

Animated Chart: The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format (1973-2021)

The Rise and Fall of Music Sales

“We live in a world of music. Whether when driving to work or jamming out at home, people around the world like to have their favorite tunes playing in the background. But while our love for music has been constant, the way we consume media has evolved drastically. The past 50 years have seen many different music formats used to access these tunes, mirroring society’s shift from analog to digital. This video, created by James Eagle using data from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), highlights sales of different music formats in the U.S. over the last 50 years.”

Source : Animated Chart: The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format (1973-2021)

Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival

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“Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, the high-profile chatbot made by the startup OpenAI, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort and a third person briefed on the conversations. In recent months Musk has repeatedly criticized OpenAI for installing safeguards that prevent ChatGPT from producing text that might offend users. Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but has since cut ties with the startup, suggested last year that OpenAI’s technology was an example of “training AI to be woke.” His comments imply that a rival chatbot would have fewer restrictions on divisive subjects compared to ChatGPT and a related chatbot Microsoft recently launched. To spearhead the effort, Musk has been recruiting Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit and specializes in the kind of machine-learning models that power chatbots like ChatGPT. ”

Source : Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival — The Information

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