Apple has announced a new accessory that feels a bit out of left field, to say the least. Say hello to the limited edition iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted "ribbed open structure" designed in collaboration with Issey Miyake. Available with a short or long strap design, it can be worn on your arm, attached to a bag or across your body. <br /> "The design of iPhone Pocket speaks to [...]
Meta has partnered with UNESCO on a new plan to improve translation and speech recognition AI, Techcrunch reported. As part of its Language Technology Partner Program, Meta is seeking collaborators willing to donate at least 10 hours of speech recordings with transcriptions, large written texts (200-plus sentences) and sets of translated sentences. The aim is to focus on "underserved language [...]
An international research team wants to bring order to the fragmented world model research landscape with OpenWorldLib. Text-to-video models like Sora are explicitly left out of their definition.<br /> The article Researchers define what counts as a world model and text-to-video generators do not appeared first on The Decoder. [...]