Open-plan offices make you stressed and moody: We’ve got the data to prove it New study shows just how distracting office noise is How we simulated open-plan office noise We used a simulated office setting with volunteers to compare the effects of typical open-plan office noise to a quieter private office on a range of objective and subjective measures of well-being and performance. Our carefully manipulated soundscapes included people speaking, walking, printing papers, ringing telephones, and keyboard typing noises....

Open-sourcing Twitter’s algorithms is more complex than Elon Musk implies The move isn’t a transparency panacea — but it’s a start Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy.Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy. Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....

OpenAI’s new image generator sparks both excitement and fear Commercial artists may want to look away now Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy.Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy. Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....

OpenAI’s system for translating plain English into code looks impressive — and slightly scary Codex could be a powerful programming assistant How Codex works Codex is a descendant ofGPT-3, OpenAI’s vaunted natural language model, but trained on billions of lines of code as well as written text. This allows it totranslate plain English into code. “GPT-3 is a system that you talk to and it talks back to you, so the only impact it has is in your mind,” said OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman during the demo....

OpenAI’s system for translating plain English into code looks impressive — and slightly scary Codex could be a powerful programming assistant How Codex works Codex is a descendant ofGPT-3, OpenAI’s vaunted natural language model, but trained on billions of lines of code as well as written text. This allows it totranslate plain English into code. “GPT-3 is a system that you talk to and it talks back to you, so the only impact it has is in your mind,” said OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman during the demo....