Who’s Coming on Halloween Night? Tonight is Halloween. It is really exciting. Little Pumpkin hid behind the door and waited for his friends anxiously. Father Pumpkin, Mother Pumpkin, Grandpa Pumpkin, Grandma Pumpkin and Big Pumpkin did not notice his absence – they were busy making Pumpkin cake. Following traditions, Little Pumpkin’s family was celebrating the […]
2020 on the U.S. West Coast A Cultural Perspective by Cai the dog Well… 2020 sure has been interesting. Wherever you are on the globe, it likely hit you like a ton of bricks. On the U.S. West Coast, our problems were compounded: a global virus, crazy elections, and fires… it’s been a tough time […]
A Muddled, Befuddled Night-In (The following events took place between 11:50 pm – 12:00 am, on the 15th floor of the World Financial Center (WFC)). 11:50 pm – 11:51 pm, Room 15-208 She laid her head in her hands with a slow inhale of breath and a slight groan. The clock above the wall […]
A look at how advancing technology is generating new communication needs for consumer protection If you search online for information about regulatory documents, Google will likely return you a list of results about required submissions from across the life sciences sector, whether or not your search terms name any part of the industry. It is […]
Recently, the Republic of Ireland’s Supreme Court declared, ‘Subway bread is not bread’. With over 145 Subway locations in Ireland, more than 22,000 in the United States and over 38,000 locations around the world, Subway is the world’s largest global fast-food chain. Although now reviewing the ruling, officials from Subway publicly disagreed with this announcement, […]
With news this week that Google has improved some of the key linguistic functionalities of its search engine’s machine learning algorithms – including an AI spell check improvement that Google’s head of search considers more important by itself than the previous five years’ progress – it is an interesting moment in the brief history of […]
A lot has happened in the two weeks since the natural language processing wonder known as GPT-3 shook the AI world with news that Microsoft now has exclusive rights to begin developing applications with it. Sticking to GPT-3, there may or may not be any residual shock value in reports that the algorithm recently enjoyed […]
A CSOFT Guide to Working Productively at Home Millions of people around the world have transitioned to working from home this year in light of the pandemic. With a team of over 10,00 linguists and subject matter experts, many CSOFTers actually work from home all over the world. This year, some CSOFTers have reflected upon […]
When heavyweight technologies begin to clash, it isn’t always a straightforward matter of competition. Beyond the inevitable struggles for dominance that arise within technological sectors, separate spheres of technology can sometimes create existential threats for each other despite sharing little of a marketplace in common. Just as interestingly, these kinds of hostilities between realms can […]
When bombarded almost weekly with reports of the latest hair-raising machine learning or facial recognition capabilities, it is easy to tune out the rising clamor over advancing AI while a human-obsolete world fails to materialize in our midst. Even so, headlines this week like Microsoft Gets Exclusive Access to AI Deemed ‘Too Dangerous To Release’ […]
Among recent technological benchmarks, 3D printing is unique in its potential to “democratize” technical innovation for consumers worldwide. Also referred to as Additive Manufacturing, or AM, 3D printing has managed in the few years since its emergence to not only enhance the precision and complexity of physical production, but also to eliminate many of the […]
For many who entered 2020 optimistic about blockchain and cryptocurrency, the pandemic quickly raised fears that the bulk of an industry already fighting for mainstream adoption and monetization would soon be on its last legs. In yet another instance of how adversity can favor innovators, though, the year so far has been a surprising boon […]
