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AI’s Struggle to Read Analogue Clocks May Have Deeper Significance
A new paper from researchers in China and Spain finds that even advanced multimodal AI models such as GPT-4.1 struggle to tell the time from images of analog clocks. Small visual changes in the clocks can cause major interpretation errors, and fine-tuning only helps with familiar examples. The results raise concerns about the reliability of…
Read the juiciest bits from the Apple-Epic court ruling | TechCrunch
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is pissed off at Apple. Really, really pissed off. In Rogers’ newly released 80-page decision, she took Apple and its executives to task for defying the court’s orders in its original case with Fortnite maker Epic Games. Though Apple largely won that round, as it was determined the tech giant was…
The new Vox Machina book finally gives Shaun Gilmore his due — read an excerpt here
As soon as Random House revealed the table of contents for its short-story collection Critical Role: Vox Machina — Stories Untold (publishing March 4), I knew exactly which story I wanted to read first: Aabria Iyengar’s “Shaun,” about everybody’s favorite recurring NPC with a crush on a PC, Shaun Gilmore. I always felt like Shaun…