IEEE

Word Based Tic-Tac-Toe Using Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel approach in playing Tic Tac Toe by replacing traditional Xs and Os with synonyms sourced from a lexical database, WordNet. Leveraging Reinforcement Learning (RL ...
The Verge

Spotify’s Prompted Playlists use AI to control your algorithm

With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly, exactly the way you want it.’ With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly ...
The American Conservative

A Recent Attack on TAC Falls Flat

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... On Iran and the Middle East broadly, The American Conservative gets everything wrong. At least, that’s what pro-Israel neoconservatives ...
Reuters

US lawmaker says licensing deal for TikTok algorithm would raise serious concerns

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The chair of the House Select Committee on China said Thursday that a licensing agreement for use of the TikTok algorithm, as part of a deal by China-based ByteDance to ...
The New York Times

New York Knicks fan laid it ‘all out on the line’ in viral tic-tac-toe game

When Ghedalia Gold-Pastor, a financial solutions advisor for Bank of America, woke up Monday morning, he didn’t expect to end the night sprawled out on the fabled Madison Square Garden basketball ...
NPR

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

New survey data finds that nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with artificial intelligence. And 42% of students surveyed say they or someone ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Research Bits: Sept. 23

Researchers at the University of Greifswald, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, and Aarhus University advanced the use of magnetic tunnel ...
The Conversation

ByteDance’s agreement to sell TikTok puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works and what’s to come

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.
CNN

TikTok’s algorithm will be overseen by Oracle in the US after the sale is completed

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...
9to5Mac

American TikTok spinoff agreed; will still use Chinese algorithm

Both US and Chinese officials are stating that an agreement has been reached for an American TikTok spin-off to be sold to American investors. It’s not the first time the Trump administration has ...
Engadget

The US version of TikTok might still use the Chinese algorithm

A potential TikTok deal emerged Monday between the US and China, two days before the Trump administration's latest sell or be banned deadline. Now, attention is shifting to the app's Chinese algorithm ...