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1. Google’s AI capability is under fire again
Google is facing controversy over its unreleased AI news tool that gathers and summarizes content from different sources, allowing publishers to circulate content faster.
The tool scrapes content from sources without their consent (which could be seen as plagiarism) and draws traffic away from these sources, raising ethical concerns.
These concerns are similar to those raised about the recently launched AI news reader (Particle), sparking worry about the shrinking news ecosystem.
This follows criticism over Google’s AI image tool, Gemini—which produces inaccurate, biased images—provoking doubt about their ability to develop AI tools responsibly.
2. Tumblr to sell data to OpenAI and Midjourney
Automattic (owner of Tumblr and WordPress) is about to sell its user data to OpenAI and Midjourney to help train their AI models (similar to Reddit’s $60M partnership).
However, an internal leak revealed that an initial training data scrape—containing all Tumblr’s posts between 2014 and 2023—included private content.
Although it’s unknown whether this data was sent to OpenAI and Midjourney, it’s raised concerns internally, with staff pulling personal content off their accounts.
Automatic does plan to introduce a feature (next week) that will allow users to opt out of training AI systems (Squarespace introduced a similar opt-out setting last year).
3. Meta and LG to rival Apple’s Vision-Pro
Zuckerberg is meeting LG CEO (Choo Joo-Wan) to finalize a partnership to develop an extended reality headset (the Meta Quest Pro 2) set to rival Apple’s Vision Pro.
The collaboration is expected to produce the highest-performing XR headset in Q1 2025, with LG overseeing the hardware development, and Meta the software integration.
It could also bring LG’s smart home appliance operating system to the new headset, with Meta allowing LG users to use a voice chatbot to control appliances.
Rumors of a Meta-LG Quest Pro 2 collaboration emerged in September 2023, in a bid by Meta to combat the lackluster sales of their Meta Quest Pro, post-launch.
4. Gemini 1.5 Pro beats ChatGPT
Gemini 1.5 Pro bypasses ChatGPT – you can upload up to 1 hour of video, 11 hours of audio, 700 thousand words or 30 thousand lines of code to AI model at a time.
Take a look at how users are using this feature:
– If you upload an entire biology textbook to the neural network, it will answer any question based on its contents.
– Gemini 1.5 Pro studied the 352-page guide and created a character for a complex role-playing game.
– An enthusiast showed the full code of the self-organizing computer and an example of an API call – Gemini 1.5 Pro explained on its fingers how the code works and built itself into a repository.
– In Gemini 1.5 Pro you can download the whole codebase from GitHub – you will get every line explained and all bugs solved
5. Diffusion transformers are the key behind OpenAI’s Sora — and they’re set to upend GenAI
OpenAI’s Sora, which can generate videos and interactive 3D environments on the fly, is a remarkable demonstration of the cutting edge in GenAI — a bona fide milestone.
But curiously, one of the innovations that led to it, an AI model architecture colloquially known as the diffusion transformer, arrived on the AI research scene years ago.
6. Apple to Wind Down Electric Car Effort After Decadelong Odyssey
Apple has completely stopped creating electric cars after 10 years of development. There were 2,000 people working on Project Titan. Some of them will be fired, and some will be transferred to the artificial intelligence department.
7. Tim Cook says Apple will ‘break new ground’ in GenAI this year
Apple CEO Tim Cook is promising that Apple will “break new ground” on GenAI this year.
8. Morph Studio lets you make flims using Stability AI–generated clips
Want to weave various Stability AI–generated video clips into a movie? Now there’s a tool for that.
9. Adobe reveals a GenAI tool for music
Adobe has introduced Project Music GenAI Control, a platform that allows users to generate audio from text descriptions or reference melodies, allowing them to customize the results within the same workflow, adjusting tempo, intensity, repeating patterns, structure, and length.
10. Lightricks announces AI-powered filmmaking studio to help creators visualize stories
Lightricks, the creator of Facetune and Videoleap, has launched LTX Studio, an AI-powered filmmaking tool, which will be available to users next month without any initial charge. The web-based tool is currently waiting for users.
11. Ideogram AI Art Generator from former Google developers is officially out of beta!
This is the best model for generating pictures with text – the neural network understands promts well, and the results rarely contain word errors. They give you 25 generations per day for free – definitely enough to play around with fonts.
There is moderation, but it is insignificant – it doesn’t let through only very blatant requests.
12. Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people
The Swedish fintech, which was criticized for its handling of a dramatic staff reduction in 2022, is touting new efficiencies powered by OpenAI.
Amid the news, shares of Tele Performance, one of the largest call center operators, fell 29%. The services of this company were used, among others, by Klarna. More details
13. iKKO, a startup, has launched ActiveBuds headphones that eliminate language barriers.
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14. Google brings Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud
Stack Overflow is launching OverflowAPI, an API that will allow AI companies to access its knowledge base. Google will use Stack Overflow’s data to enrich Gemini for Google Cloud and provide validated answers. The partnership will be previewed at Google’s Cloud Next conference in April. Content-driven services like Stack Overflow aim to ensure payment for large language models.
15. Microsoft’s Windows 11 Copilot gets smarter with new plugins and skills
Microsoft is introducing new Copilot skills for Windows 11 users, allowing it to change settings and integrate with services like OpenTable, Shopify, and Kayak.
The new skills will roll out in late March, allowing users to perform tasks like turning battery savers on and off, showing device, system, and battery information, launching live captions, and emptying the recycle bin. The goal is to have a general PC copilot that can open and manipulate apps on your device for you, or potentially replace some of them altogether. Microsoft is also integrating more AI features into its existing Windows apps, such as a generative erase feature in the Photos app and a feature that removes silence from videos in the Clipchamps video editor.
16. Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of non-profit AI
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders, and affiliated entities, claiming they breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the nonprofit’s mission to develop AI for humanity. Musk, an early backer, claims they convinced him to fund OpenAI in 2015, but has refused to accept a stake in the for-profit arm.
17. OpenAI is getting involved in the terminator race.
The company has signed a cooperation contract with Figure, one of the main creators of AI robotics. These are the same robots that will be working in BMW factories very soon. Together with OpenAI, the startup will work on models for autonomous humanoids. However, so far they can’t do anything but make a cup of coffee.
Robots are already becoming more and more like living people, but whether they will be able to take on the multitasking of an engineer is a big question. Musk has already tried (https://www.forbes.ru/tehnologii/372975-problemy-tesla-na-proizvodstve-model-3-rekordnyy-travmatizm) to introduce robots into Tesla factories and reduce the record , but it didn’t work out: robots didn’t have enough intelligence and motor skills. But time is passing, generative models that learn quickly have appeared, large companies are already introducing robots to their production facilities (hello, Amazon), so industries are also rushing to reduce their costs at the expense of humanoids.
17. Weekly Crypto Digest: AI-related crypto tokens surge following Nvidia’s earning announcement.
18. OPPO unveils new OPPO Air Glass 3 at MWC 2024, showcasing innovative initiates in the era of AI
18. Cat got your tongue? How AI could is on cusp of breakthrough that’d allow people and ANIMALS to talk to each other in ’12 to 36 months’
It sounds like the plot of a new Disney movie, but experts predict AI will allow people to communicate with household pets and even wild animals.
Researchers around the world are using ‘digital bioacoustics’ – tiny, portable, digital recorders – to capture the sounds, tics and behaviors of animals that are too quiet or nuanced for humans to pick up on.
These databases will be used train artificial intelligence to decipher these miniature communications and translate them into something more comprehendible to us, almost like a ‘ChatGPT for animals’.
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