This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free. It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal.
But there's a catch. There's always a catch.
In exchange for the cleaning, Shift wants footage of its cleaners at work: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting tables, mopping floors. It wants everything. Video of all the boring domestic labor we'd happily outsource if we could - and that robotics companies are racing to teach machines to do so they can sell us something to do it for us.
That's harder than it sounds. Unlike cha …
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Michael Jackson misses out on hitting No. 1 for the first time on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. as “Billie Jean” climbs to No. 2, stopped from ruling by BTS. Michael Jackson performs on stage during his “BAD” concert tour held at Wembley Stadium ,London on the 15th of July 1988. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images For the past month or so, Michael Jackson’s music has gained considerably in terms of both sales and streams. The surge is connected to his highly anticipated biopic, Michael, which finally arrived in theaters earlier this spring. The superstar’s name began reappearing on Billboard‘s charts in earnest before the movie finally landed, and for weeks since then, Americans and listeners around the world have seemingly not been able to get enough of the smashes that made him the King of Pop. The past several weeks have been incredibly exciting
AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch - because, despite what its website says, there's always a catch - is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots.
Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on Thursday, explaining that the value of the training data generated from the cleanings is more than enough to fund the service. As its website puts it: "You get a spotless apartment. We get training data. Everyone wins."
A promotional video shows a cleaner in a crisp white uniform and awkward-looking hat (more on that later) washing windows …
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The 220 Central Park South building, center, stands in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. Just days after buying one of the most expensive residential properties in London, Citadel founder Ken Griffin set a U.S. record with the $238 million penthouse at 220 Central Park South. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images New York City’s new tax on second homes will more than double property taxes owed by many wealthy luxury apartment owners, according to tax experts. State lawmakers on Wednesday passed the tax on non-primary residences in order to help close the city’s budget gap. The so-called pied-a-terre tax will be imposed on second homes valued at $1 million or more. It’s expected to raise $500 million in revenue. Details on the tax obtained by CNBC show that the property tax would take effect in two different phases. In the first two years – the tax years 2026-2027
Resonance and AI Insider will be among the intelligence leaders on the ground as Europe’s premier AI gathering convenes at Tobacco Dock this June. London is once again set to become the nerve centre of the global artificial intelligence conversation. The AI Summit London, the UK and Europe’s leading event for applied AI, takes place […]
As AI tools keep raising many concerns about national security and sovereignty, London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a fifty million pound contract the Metropolitan Police was supposed to sign with AI giant Palantir. The AI firm would have offered the police force tools to process intelligence in criminal investigations.
Susan Hall is the leader of the Conservative Party in the London Assembly, and she discussed this matter with Gavin Lee.
London mayor accused of ‘putting politics above public safety’ for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis
Palantir has accused Sadiq Khan of “putting politics above public safety” after the London mayor blocked its £50m contract with the Metropolitan police in a move that has also led to tensions inside Labour over its involvement with the US tech company.
Louis Mosley, who heads Palantir in the UK and Europe, accused Khan of politicising procurement after he rejected a two-year deal for Scotland Yard to use AI to process intelligence in criminal investigations, as first revealed by the Guardian. Mosley said: “What Londoners value is not being mugged, not being raped by a serving police officer.”
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Bill Winters faced backlash over remarks about some of near 80,000 staff set to lose roles to AI
The chief executive of Standard Chartered has apologised for referring to some of the almost 8,000 staff that are set to lose their jobs to artificial intelligence as “lower-value human capital”.
Bill Winters offered the apology after a backlash over comments he made earlier this week as the London-headquartered lender became one of the first major global banks to lay out plans to cut about 7,800 back-office roles, primarily in response to AI.
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The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex, Anthropic staffers assured me.) “Who here has shipped a pull request in the last week that was completely written…
