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Placeholder while article actions load News that Alphabet Inc.’s Google sidelined an engineer who claimed its artificial intelligence system had become sentient after he’d had several months of conversations with it prompted plenty of skepticism from AI scientists. Many have said, via postings on Twitter, that senior software engineer Blake Lemoine projected his own humanity onto Google’s chatbot generator LaMDA. Whether they’re right, or Lemoine is right, is a matter for debate… Source link

The stock market is suddenly looking up. Or is it? Equities whipsawed throughout the month of May as investors contemplated falling economic growth projections and less-than-stellar earnings forecasts from retailers. Despite the bearish news, ongoing volatility, and consistent predictions of an impending recession, the S&P 500 ended the month roughly unchanged after mounting a recovery over the last few weeks. The rebound has some on Wall Street arguing that it’s time to be opportunistic and… Source link

Elon Musk at the 2022 Met Gala.Andrew Kelly/Reuters Elon Musk said Covid-19 lockdowns “tricked people into thinking that you don’t actually need to work hard.” Working from home didn’t make workers less productive, three economists told Insider. The only constraint on productivity was when workers had children at home they needed to look after. Elon Musk is not a fan of remote work. In the early hours of Wednesday, Musk commented on a tweet which appeared to show an email from himself to Tesla… Source link

Google continues its ‘Ask Googlebot’ video series with a new installment explaining why Search Console graphs fluctuate when no changes are made to a website. In the video, Google Search Advocate John Mueller says its normal for Search Console graphs to go up and down to some extent, irrespective of website updates. Fluctuations aren’t an immediate cause for concern, though there are factors to watch out for that could indicate there’s a problem. Here’s why graphs fluctuate in… Source link

Bill Ackman is a billionaire investor and hedge fund manager.Elsa/Getty Images Markets aren’t confident that the Federal Reserve can tame record inflation, Bill Ackman tweeted Tuesday. He predicts that inflation can only come down if the Fed aggressively raises rates, or if stocks crash. “It ends when the Fed puts a line in the sand on inflation and says it will do ‘whatever it takes,'” Ackman said. Bill Ackman, the CEO and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, said markets are facing a… Source link

About 60% of lower-priced homeowners may pay higher property taxes than their counterparts who own more expensive homes, according to a new study released Tuesday. Why? Owners of those higher-valued properties, ranging from $500,000 to $1.2 million, are at least two times more likely to appeal their property taxes and possibly pay far less, said Ownwell, a property-based startup in Austin, Texas. The amount of appeals depends on the county and the state. For example, homeowners of higher-value… Source link

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is poised to introduce legislation that would forbid Google and other tech giants that build and operate digital advertising exchanges from owning the tools that help buyers and sellers of online advertising. Not only is this bad policy, but it is based on the faulty premise that advertising markets are analogous to securities markets. Behind the proposed legislation is the argument, put forward by some legal scholars, that Google… Source link

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is poised to introduce legislation that would forbid Google and other tech giants that build and operate digital advertising exchanges from owning the tools that help buyers and sellers of online advertising. Not only is this bad policy, but it is based on the faulty premise that advertising markets are analogous to securities markets. Behind the proposed legislation is the argument, put forward by some legal scholars, that Google… Source link

Alphabet, the parent company to Google, announced its first quarter earnings this evening, and for the creator industry, that means a slew of news and updates about YouTube. YouTube is known as a particularly ripe ground for content monetization, since creators earn a 55% share of ad revenue, rather than paltry payouts from an ever-dwindling creator fund (looking at you, TikTok). Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet, reported that the number of YouTube channels that made at… Source link

If long waits or slow service suddenly bedevil a favorite restaurant, it may not be the fault of the employees you see — but rather the ones you don’t. An acute labor shortage in the restaurant industry has pushed employment in the sector about 1.5 million jobs below pre-pandemic levels. Moreover, restaurant owners don’t expect the problem to resolve itself anytime soon. Roughly half of them say recruiting and retention of employees will be their top challenge in 2022, according to a survey… Source link