Company
Date Published
Author
Ashley Binford
Word count
1018
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The latest issue of The Comet Newsletter highlights several pressing topics, such as Facebook's partnership with Michigan State University to reverse engineer deepfakes using a fingerprint estimation network, providing a potential solution to the growing concern over manipulated media. It also discusses a new free NLP course from Hugging Face, aimed at educating users on building NLP applications, and a collaborative initiative by Deepnote offering a free Teams Plan for up to three collaborators, enhancing communication in data science projects. Additionally, the newsletter addresses the alarming development of lethal autonomous drones, citing a UN report on their use in Libya and the potential proliferation of such technology as a new form of weapons of mass destruction. Researchers from the Future of Life Institute are advocating for a halt on the development and deployment of these systems to prevent further escalation.