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AI Expert Engineers Meta’s Video Recommendations

February 5, 2025
Computer & Information Technology

Every time someone views a video on Facebook or Instagram, they engage with Amey Dharwadker’s work. The machine learning engineering manager at Facebook’s parent company, Meta, leads Facebook’s video recommendations quality ranking team. Dharwadker’s work focuses on improving the quality and integrity of video recommendations for billions of daily active…

January 15, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Universal translators in science fiction, such as the Babel fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, have long offered the dream of instantaneous translation from one spoken language to another. Now, in what may be a key step toward making this fantasy a reality, scientists at Facebook’s parent company…

December 25, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

2024 was a year of paradoxes in consumer electronics. While artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and cutting-edge display technology changed how people use their devices, the year also saw a surge in demand for simple, tactile controls and designs. This collection of stories highlights the year’s most significant trends, including Meta’s…

October 19, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

In the last decade, Meta has embarked on a quest to blend the physical and virtual realms. The tech giant is bringing that fusion to fruition with the recent unveiling of what it calls its first pair of “true” augmented reality (AR) glasses, named Orion.While the company notes that Orion…

October 15, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Emteq Labs wants eyewear to be the next frontier of wearable health technology.The Brighton, England-based company introduced today its emotion-sensing eyewear, Sense. The glasses contain nine optical sensors distributed across the rims that detect subtle changes in facial expression with more than 93 percent accuracy when paired with Emteq’s current…

24 Mar 24

Grokking X.ai’s Grok—Real Advance or Just Real Troll?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Last weekend, X.ai released the world’s largest “open-source” large language model (LLM), Grok-1. At 314 billion parameters, it’s the largest open-source model yet, far exceeding predecessors like Falcon 180B at 180 billion. That’s impressive, but the timing of X.ai’s release—just a few weeks after Elon Musk, founder of X.ai, filed…

20 Mar 24

Exploding Chips, Meta’s AR Hardware, and More

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast where we look at concrete solutions to some big problems. I’m your host Stephen Cass, a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest…

09 Mar 24

Privacy Is Just No Longer a Thing in Augmented Reality?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The Apple Vision Pro teleports you to a parallel universe, one where you can summon apps and flick through web pages with a wave of your hands. It’s a feat made possible by an array of cameras, microphones, and gyroscopes that monitor your every move. And the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech…

04 Mar 24

Meta’s AI Watermarking Plan is Flimsy, At Best

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In the past few months, we’ve seen a deepfake robocall of Joe Biden encouraging New Hampshire voters to “save your vote for the November election” and a fake endorsement of Donald Trump from Taylor Swift. It’s clear that 2024 will mark the first “AI election” in United States history.With many…

24 Feb 24

Perplexity.ai Revamps Google SEO Model For LLM Era

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

ChatGPT’s release on 30 Nov. 2022 was met with much fanfare and plenty of pushback. It quickly became clear people wanted to ask AI the same questions they asked Google—and ChatGPT often wasn’t capable of an answer. The problems were numerous. ChatGPT’s replies were out of date, didn’t cite sources,…

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