26 February 2021, 3:38 am EST By Facebook wants to add Hey Facebook, a similar voice-recognition feature to Siri. ( Justin Doherty from Pexels )
The rise in the popularity of virtual assistants has been dominated by Apple s Siri and Amazon s Alexa. Now, as the brewing war of Apple with Facebook continues, the latter also plans to match the rival s feature with their Hey Facebook for Oculus VR platform Portal. Hey Facebook Will be Your Newest Companion in Facebook s Platforms
According to a blog written on the official Oculus site of Facebook on February 25, the social media company said that it did not figure out a way to interact with virtual reality over the past years.
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20 February 2021, 6:11 am EST By YouTube AI could have mistakenly blocked a channel of a chess streamer due to alleged racist remarks. ( George Becker from Pexels )
It might be unbelievable at first that a YouTube algorithm has detected a chess discussion as racist and flagged it for punishment. In the case of the chess YouTuber, he was blocked by the video-streaming company for the alleged, sensitive issue.
YouTube AI Could Have Mistakenly Perceived The Chess Chat As Racist
The incident happened in June 2020 and people have entirely no idea why the algorithm blocked the streamer from making his content videos about chess. At the very least, it could have known that the video was flagged as harmful and dangerous content. Maybe, it recognized an amount of hate speech in the discussion forum if that was the case.