Tech & Society
Ancient Scrolls Recovered: Researchers decipher scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius using AI
Three researchers decoded scrolls that had gone unread since they were turned into charcoal by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79.
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Tech & Society
Copyright Owners Take AI to Court: Artists and writers sue big tech companies over copyright infringement.
AI models that generate text, images, and other types of media are increasingly under attack by owners of copyrights to material included in their training data. Writers and artists filed a new spate of lawsuits alleging that AI companies violated their copyrights...
Business
Programmer’s Best Friend: Code generation services took off in 2022.
Behind schedule on a software project? There’s an app for that. Language models fine-tuned on computer code proved capable of generating software routines similar to the work of experienced developers — though the results can be hit-or-miss.
Tech & Society
The Right Problem for Your Solution: GitHub's Good First Issues helps newbies get into open source.
A new tool connects novice programmers with projects that match their experience and interests. Github’s Good First Issues tool uses deep learning to find easy-to-fix issues among the collaborative software development platform’s multitude of open source projects.