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SmarterChild Beat ChatGPT by 22 Years [Video]

From BuzzFeed 2013: “50 Things That Look Just Like Your Childhood” – “A chat with an online robot”

Did you play with SmarterChild? I was one of the founders and CEO. Was nice to be part of the Internet’s childhood.Who knew then that ChatGPT was coming?

Here is a start-up video … 2000… (Microsoft eventually bought us – ActiveBuddy. And, now they own a chunk of ChatGPT) Yes, that’s me.

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Amazon to cut 9,000 additional jobs [Video]

STORY: Online retail behemoth Amazon on Monday said it would cut 9,000 more jobsmaking it the latest Big Tech company to announce a second round of layoffs in the face of a possible recession.In a remarkable turn for a company long touting its job creation, Amazon will have eliminated 27,000 positions in recent months, or 9% of its corporate jobs... The move comes as other tech giants are also slashing jobs after a pandemic-led hiring spreeMicrosoft, Salesforce, Alphabet, and Facebook-parent Meta have all cut their payrolls in recent months. Amazon follows Meta in becoming the second bellwether to announce a second round of cuts.In a statement posted on the companys website, CEO Andy Jassy wrote (quote):"Given the uncertain economy in which we reside, and the uncertainty that exists in the near future, we have chosen to be more streamlined in our costs and headcount.The cuts will be concentrated in Amazons cloud services, advertising and Twitch units.Amazon last month said operating profit may continue to slump in the current quarter, hit by the financial impact of consumers and cloud customers clamping down on spending. Sales from its lucrative cloud-computing division slowed during the fourth quarter. Shares of Amazon were down over 2% in early trading.

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Space10 Uses AI To Re-Imagine IKEA Furniture [Video]

In just a few short months, generative AI platforms have taken the world by storm, leading a technological and design revolution that promises new ways of creating.In a new project, IKEA's research and design lab SPACE10 worked with video journalist Joss Fong and designer ron Filkey to imagine a new speculative line of IKEA furniture through the use of AI, drawing on the style of past IKEA catalogs. By teaching a text-to-image model of what IKEA furniture looked like in the 1970s and 1980s, the project allows for a unique collaboration with designers from the past to imagine new, vintage-inspired items for the future.