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Building a Fast Multilingual OCR Model with Synthetic Data

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Simon Willison19h ago

datasette 1.0a28

Release: datasette 1.0a28 I was upgrading Datasette Cloud to 1.0a27 and discovered a nasty collection of accidental breakages caused by changes in that alpha. This new alpha addresses those directly: Fixed a compatibility bug introduced in 1.0a27 where execute_write_fn() callbacks with a parameter...

The Verge7h ago

This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry

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I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably lo-fi. If I saw it on a store shelf, I'd absolutely pick it up. But aside from obviously...

The Verge7h ago

Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

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Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "encourage customers to add more food to their orders," according to The Wall Street Journal....

The Verge7h ago

The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap

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In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a bunch of things this week that made us wonder: have we reached the peak of AI, […]

Ars Technica7h ago

Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone

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Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.