Originally published in TechCrunch, March 27, 2023. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper, announced Deep Agency, a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and modeling agency.” Using art-generating AI, Deep Agency creates and offers “virtual models” for hire starting at $29
Originally published in The Verge, March 13, 2023. As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone. Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence...
Originally published in Tech At Instacart, March 17, 2023. At Instacart, we take pride in offering a diverse range of machine learning (ML) products that empower every aspect of our marketplace, including customers, shoppers, retailers, and brands....
Originally published in TechCrunch, March 7, 2023. Late last month, Artifact, a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. The launch was a surprise to many consumers, who wondered why the team behind one of the world’s most...
Originally published in Spotify Research, Feb 22, 2023. A new approach to calibrating recommendations to user interests Users’ interests are multi-faceted and representing different aspects of users’ interest in their recommendations is an important factor for recommender...
Originally published in Shopify Engineering, Feb 8, 2023. A business’s taxes can be difficult to manage, especially in the United States. Tax laws are complicated and vary state-to-state, city-to-city, and product-to-product, further adding to the complexity. When...
Originally published in Brookings, Feb 21, 2023. With OpenAI’s ChatGPT now a constant presence both on social media and in the news, generative artificial intelligence (AI) models have taken hold of the public’s imagination. Policymakers have taken...
Originally published in Amatriain, Jan 29, 2023. Ten years ago, we published a post in the Netflix tech blog explaining our three-tier architectural approach to building recommender systems (see below). A lot has happened in the last 10 years...
Originally published in Spotify R&D Engineering, Feb 1, 2023. Introduction As the field of machine learning (ML) continues to evolve and its impact on society and various aspects of our lives grows, it is becoming increasingly important...
