Science magazine describes what happens when a robot writes a play: The 60-minute production — AI: When a Robot Writes a Play — tells the journey of a character (this time a robot), who goes out into the world to learn about society, human emotions, and even death. The script was created by a widely available artificial intelligence (AI) system called…
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YouTube Celebrates Deaf Awareness Week By Killing Crowd-Sourced Captions
Two days after the International Week of the Deaf, which is the last full week in September, YouTube is killing its “Community Contributions” feature for videos, which let content creators crowdsource captions and subtitles for their videos. Ars Technica reports: Once enabled by a channel owner, the Community Contributions feature would let viewers caption or translate a video and submit it…
YouTube Criticized For Ending Its Community Captions Feature
Long-time Slashdot reader xonen quotes the Verge:
YouTube plans to discontinue its community captions feature, which allowed viewers to add subtitles to videos, because it was “rarely used and had problems with spam/abuse,” the company announced. It says it’s removing the captions and will “focus on other creator tools.” The feature will be removed as of September 28th. “You can still use…
COVID-19 Contact Tracing course from Johns Hopkins now available in Spanish and Portuguese
By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer at Coursera Read this post in Spanish and Portuguese. With the continued threat of COVID-19, governments around the world are increasing efforts to manage the spread. In many communities, this means quickly expanding contact tracing capabilities. In May, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins […]
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