Monthly Archives: September 2022

I used OpenAI’s new tech to transcribe audio right on my laptop

The benefits of AI without the drawbacks of the cloud. | Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images OpenAI, the company behind image-generation and meme-spawning program DALL-E and the powerful text autocomplete engine GPT-3, has launched a new, open-source neural network meant to transcribe audio into written text (via TechCrunch). It’s called Whisper, and the…

Amazon hires unsafe trucking firms twice as often as peers, WSJ finds

Enlarge (credit: Robert Nickelsberg / Contributor | Getty Images News) For years, people in cars stuck behind blue delivery trucks in traffic have echoed media reports criticizing Amazon for clogging American roadways. It’s well-known that the Amazon drivers steering these fleets of trucks and vans don’t actually work for Amazon but are hired by companies…

Tesla updates finger-pinching window glitch

Watch your fingers there. David von Diemar/Unsplash Tesla is no stranger to vehicle recalls—from camera issues, to “self-driving” problems, to that time earlier this year when every single car needed safety fixes. This week, company CEO Elon Musk received yet another problem to add to the list—as NPR reported, the electric vehicle company “is recalling”…