The news isn’t a surprise as Unity angered a lot of its loyal game developers a few weeks ago after pushing through a price increase based on numbers of downloads — and then retracted it after an uproar.
In a new paper published on the open access and non-peer reviewed site arXiv.org, co-authors Ronen Eldan of Microsoft Research and Mark Russinovich of Microsoft Azure propose a new way of editing or removing knowledge of copyrighted works by erasing specific information from a sample LLM — namely, all knowledge of the...
Like many sectors, game developers have been cutting headcount due to economic uncertainty through out 2023. According to Farhan Noor’s videogamelayoffs.com, game developers issued layoffs to over 6,100 employees in 2023 (so far).
Sridhar Ramaswamy, former CEO of the privacy-focused search engine Neeva, believes the window for AI systems to truly disrupt Google’s dominance in consumer search is closing following Snowflake’s acquisition of Neeva. At Snowflake, Ramaswamy sees more potential in using AI for enterprise applications and knowledge...
The datasets used to generative AI could face a reckoning — not just in U.S. courts, but in the court of public opinion.
In a VentureBeat Q&A, Princeton University's Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, authors of the upcoming "AI Snake Oil," discuss AI hype.
Neither the layoffs nor breaking ties with a playtesting company that knows their worth in the market sound like they're going to help BioWare make RPGs that can compete with Baldur's Gate 3, formerly a BioWare series.
Researchers believe that large language models (LLMs) can benefit from Cyc, a symbolic AI system that was pioneered over four decades ago. LLMs are often unpredictable and lack reasoning, which makes them untrustworthy for practical applications. By combining LLMs with symbolic systems like Cyc, researchers hope to create more...
