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OpenAI has officially announced GPT-4, the successor to its existing GPT-3.5 model for ChatGPT. Like with previous iterations, the improved large multimodal model is capable of emitting text outputs via image and text inputs. While less capable than humans in real-world scenarios, it exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.Through taking standardized exams, OpenAI is able to gauge the level of improvement to a degree. While GPT-3.5 scored around the bottom 10% of test takers for the bar exam, GPT-4 passed with a score in the 90th percentile of test takers. Other results include an improvement from 4/5 to 5/5 on the AP Biology exam and 590/800 to an estimated 700/800 on SAT Math.OpenAI reports that after rebuilding the entire deep learning stack over...

Meta will be laying off another 10,000 members of its workforce, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday. The company will also be withdrawing 5,000 open positions it had been planning to fill.Last fall, Meta let go of 11,000 employees in a wave of mass layoffs. In February, sources close to the company alleged that it would be undergoing yet another sweep of layoffs in March.The layoffs come as part of Meta’s self-described “Year of Efficiency,” in which the company plans to “improve [its] financial performance in a difficult environment so we can execute our long term vision.”“Over the next couple of months, org leaders will announce restructuring plans focused on flattening our orgs, canceling lower priority projects, and reducing our hiring rates,” Zuckerberg wrote in a memo to staff. “Wi...

Last year, SpaceX and T-Mobile announced their new partnership "Coverage and Above and Beyond,” a global satellite-to-cellular network program. Aimed at putting an end to mobile dead zones, such as rural areas or in the middle of the ocean, Elon Musk and T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert detailed plans to provide 5G coverage via second-generation Starlink satellites.Nearly a year later, the two companies have shared that they’ll begin testing the 5G service later in 2023.Speaking on a panel at the Satellite Conference and Exhibition 2023, Vice President of Starlink enterprise sales Jonathan Hofeller declared that Starlink boasts “well over a million users” and is currently building 6 second-generation satellites each day, per CNBC space reporter Michael Sheetz.Hofeller went on to say that SpaceX w...

It looks like Meta is taking a step back on its words of support for NFTs following a recent string of tweets from the company's Head of Commerce and Financial Technologies, Stephane Kasriel.Kasriel alerts its consumers in a tweet that states that Meta is "winding down" its support of NFTs on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. This comes just less than a year after Meta has pushed to adopt "digital collectibles" and after Mark Zuckerberg called 2023 the "year of efficiency". The note step away from NFTs is unsurprising after Zuckerberg announced in the 2022 earnings call that the company has suffered major net losses, indicating that his metaverse-obsessed direction may not be a promising one.In a thread on Twitter, Kasriel said, "We're winding down digital collectibles (NFTs) for now t...

Continuing to share its technological advancements, Sony has now unveiled a point-and-shoot camera designed for the visually impaired. The "DSC-HX99 RNV" comes as a kit comprised of a point-and-shoot and a viewfinder with a retinal laser projection system.The Sony Cybershot DSC-HX99 base features a 24mm to 720mm zoom lens and an 18-megapixel illuminated sensor with built-in image stabilization. The Retissa Neoviewer from Japan’s QD Laser projects a digital image drawn from the camera directly onto the retina of a user. Though Sony notes that the technology is not functional for everyone."The laser retinal projection of Retissa Neoviewer is a completely new technology that has been put to practical use for the first time in the world," according to Dr. Mitsuru Sugawara, the President and CE...