In testifying before Congress in the past two days, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pointed to the company’s artificial intelligence technology as a solution to its content-moderation woes. In this article, BuzzFeed picks that argument apart, talking to AI researchers about the low likelihood that their systems will be able to understand hate speech with five to 10 years. the other problem is “there...
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Behind the Apple Design Decisions That Bogged Down Its Mixed-Reality Headset

Apple’s executives had a critical design decision to make about the company’s riskiest product in years. It was 2019, and a growing team of Apple engineers had been working for more than three years on a headset that combined augmented and virtual reality capabilities. Now they had to figure out whether the mixed-reality headset would be a stand-alone device or would require a...
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