GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco. Register Now Epic Games announced today that it is laying off 16% of its staff, or 830 people. It’s also divesting recent purchase Bandcamp and spinning out SuperAwesome, which will result in 250 more …
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GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco. Register Now Luda, which specializes in allowing users to train and launch their own AI agents, announced this week that it’s launching a new system called Real-Time Reinforcement Learning (RT-RL). This allows users to …
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GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco. Register Now Talespin, which uses spatial computing to train workers, announced the launch of its extended reality (XR) learning app on Meta Quest. It comes a day after Meta introduced its $500 Meta Quest …
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Effective compression is about finding patterns to make data smaller without losing information. When an algorithm or model can accurately guess the next piece of data in a sequence, it shows it’s good at spotting these patterns. This links the idea of making good guesses—which is what large language models like GPT-4 do very well—to …
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“The way you would solve that in the real world would be to recruit people, get waivers, bring them into a lab, image them, and make sure you capture as much variability as possible with movement and lighting,” says Yashar Behzadi, Synthesis AI’s chief executive.
The company says it is shedding the staff because it’s spending “way more” than it earns
Bear attacks in Japan have been rising at an alarming rate, so the city of Takikawa installed a robot wolf as a deterrent. The robot wolf was originally designed to keep wild animals from farmlands, but is now being used by local governments and managers of highways, golf courses, and pig farms. Japan’s environment ministry …
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He said he took the decision due to issues he had living in Europe while working in North America.