Meta signs major licensing agreement for Immersion haptic technology

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Though the tech has fallen out of fashion for a while, Facebook’s parent company is interested again. Haptic technology isn’t anything new, but it has fallen out of fashion when it comes to the latest virtual reality experiences provided by major players in VR. That said, Meta recently signed a major licensing deal with Immersion Corporation to leverage patents of that nature. The idea is to use the tech to enhance Meta’s XR software, hardware and other products. Immersion Corporation specializes in the development of haptic technology, which it patents…

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Artificial intelligence is being trained on books without author knowledge or consent

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Nearly 200,000 books are being used for this purpose by some of the largest AI companies. Books3 is a system that uses books to train artificial intelligence, but according to a recent CTV report, the authors of those works were not informed and did not provide their consent. According to a recent investigation, Books3 allegedly uses a pirated e-book collection spanning many genres. The books included in the artificial intelligence learning library include everything from prose to poetry in virtually any genre. They are used to help generative AI systems…

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As frustration with AI chatbots rises, Instagram DMs is likely only adding more

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Recently leaked images suggested there will be 30 artificial intelligence personalities with which to interact. Meta has joined the growing number of companies that are testing the integration of AI chatbots into social media apps, according to recently leaked images circulating the media. For the simultaneously growing number of people who have been trying to stay away from interacting with artificial intelligence, this is going to make things much more frustrating. The news was originally shared by Alessandro Paluzi, a leaker on Twitter, who shared a screenshot. #Instagram is working…

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Meta Platforms launches a “Year of Efficiency”, and its stock takes off

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CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to work on achieving improved efficiency and decision making. Facebook founder and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pouring billions into the digital metaverse world and the company has been bleeding money as a result of these ventures. The company is now committing to focus its attention on the more immediate problems it is facing. Following drooping stock prices and substantial losses, Meta Platforms will now be buckling down and looking to correct its more immediate problems, such as sending its users improved relevancy…

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Meta artificial intelligence has predicted 617 million protein structures

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The Facebook parent company says its AI model can predict 60 times faster than other cutting-edge systems. Meta recently announced that its artificial intelligence model could be a serious rival to AlphaFold, with claims that its own model is able to predict 60 times faster than other cutting-edge systems. Researchers at the company say they have created a tremendous protein-folding model. According to those researchers, their protein-folding artificial intelligence model has been used for predicting the structure of 617 million proteins. Meta stated that its AI team was able to create…

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