Apr 20, 2022

Last week, Elon Musk launched a surprise attempt to acquire Twitter. The $43-billion bid was motivated, he said, by his desire to protect free speech endangered by the company’s practice of promoting some tweets while burying others. To

House sales priced by algorithms account for a small but growing portion of the real estate market. Companies that use algorithmic pricing models to buy and sell houses purchased roughly double the volume of transactions in two years. However, these deals may not benefit typical home buyers.

OpenAI’s DALL·E got an upgrade that takes in text descriptions and produces images in styles from hand-drawn to photorealistic. The new version is a rewrite from the ground up. It uses the earlier CLIP zero-shot image classifier to represent text descriptions.

A new approach aims to cure text generators of their tendency to produce nonsense. AI21 Labs launched Jurassic-X, a natural language processing system that combines neural networks and rule-based programs.

AI startups are putting their cash into . . . AI startups.What’s new: Young AI companies flush with venture capital are purchasing startups to expand the range of services they can offer.

Last week, Elon Musk launched a surprise attempt to acquire Twitter. The $43-billion bid was motivated, he said, by his desire to protect free speech endangered by the company’s practice of promoting some tweets while burying others.