Twitter’s former head of safety says platform is less safe under Elon Musk

In his first public interview since abruptly quitting Twitter, Yoel Roth, the company’s former head of trust and safety, said he believes the platform is less safe under Elon Musk. Speaking at an event hosted by the Knight Foundation, Roth responded “I don’t,” when asked if he still believed Twitter was safer since Musk’s takeover….

Twitter’s former trust & safety chief, who once said the platform was safer under Elon Musk, now says he believes the opposite

Former Twitter exec Yoel Roth (left), Twitter CEO Elon Musk (right) Getty Twitter is not safer under Elon Musk, according to Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth.  The statement is a reversal for Roth, who wrote the opposite in a New York Times op-ed earlier this month.  Twitter said it would stop…

OpenAI upgrades GPT-3, stunning with rhyming poetry and lyrics

Enlarge / An AI-generated image inspired by Leonardo da Vinci. (credit: Ars Technica) On Monday, OpenAI announced a new model in the GPT-3 family of AI-powered large language models, text-davinci-003, that reportedly improves on its predecessors by handling more complex instructions and producing longer-form content. Almost immediately, people discovered that it could also generate rhyming…

China’s astronauts embark on a direct trip to their brand new space station

Tiangong translates to ‘Heavenly Palace.’. CNS / AFP / China OUT via Getty Images Three astronauts launched aboard a Chinese National Space Administration rocket in the early hours of Tuesday morning from the Gobi Desert. They are now en route to China’s recently completed Tiangong space station. Although another three astronauts were already aboard Tiangong since before it…