AI-Weekly for Tuesday, March 5, 2024 – Volume 102

The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence
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1.) Top 5 Most Clicked News Articles From Last Week

A.) Apple Running ‘Technology Investigation’ Ahead Of Potential Smart Glasses Launch | MacWorld.com | 2/26/24

The Vision Pro launch might have received something of a mixed reception, but Apple has no intention of slowing its assault on the wearables market. Next on the list? Maybe a ring or a set of smart glasses that would bring some of Vision Pro’s advantages to consumers at a fraction of the price.

B.) How to Use ChatGPT’s Memory Feature | Wired.com | 2/26/24

The latest update to OpenAI’s chatbot improves the AI’s ability to remember user details, but the feature is not yet available for all ChatGPT accounts.

C.) How To Make Your AI-Generated Content Sound More Human | SearchEngineLand.com | 2/26/24

Leverage AI like ChatGPT to generate more human-sounding long-form content. Refine prompts with details to produce engaging articles.

D.) I Used AI Work Tools To Do My Job. Here’s How It Went | TheWashingtonPost.com | 2/26/24

Does AI save you time or create more work? We put Microsoft’s Copilot and Gemini for Google Workspace to the test.

E.) AI ‘Dream Girls’ Are Coming For Porn Stars’ Jobs | Tatum Hunter | TheWashingtonPost.com | 2/25/24

AI will change adult entertainment forever. The risks — for sex workers and the rest of us — are profound.

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4.) AI Tool Predicts Kidney Failure Six Times Faster Than Human Expert Analysts | MedicalXpress.com | 3/4/24

Kidney doctors and clinical scientists at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are using artificial intelligence (AI) to better predict when a person’s kidneys might fail.

5.) Google Revises Trust and Safety Team Amid Gemini Controversy | News.Futuretools.io | 3/4/24

Google confirms layoffs within its trust and safety team amidst the Gemini chatbot controversy. Fewer than 10 people were laid off from a team of 250, as reported by Bloomberg. CEO Sundar Pichai announces structural changes in product evaluation to prevent future issues. The layoffs are part of broader cost-cutting efforts across the company. Google aims to reduce bureaucracy and focus on innovation by simplifying structures.

6.) OpenAI adds ‘Read Aloud’ voiceover to ChatGPT | VentureBeat.com | 3/4/24

No, it’s not GPT-5, despite rumors to the contrary. Instead, OpenAI answered the arrival of the newly crowned most powerful large language model (LLM) from rival Anthropic today with a minor but potentially useful ChatGPT update for users: voiceover narration for the chatbot’s responses.

7.) Anthropic Claims Its New AI Chatbot Models Beat OpenAI’s GPT-4 | TechCrunch.com | 3/4/24

AI startup Anthropic, backed by Google and hundreds of millions in venture capital (and perhaps soon hundreds of millions more), today announced the latest version of its GenAI tech, Claude. And the company claims that the AI chatbot OpenAI’s beats out GPT-4 in terms of performance.

8.) Introducing The Next Generation Of Claude | Anthropic.com | 3/4/24

Today, we’re announcing the Claude 3 model family, which sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. The family includes three state-of-the-art models in ascending order of capability: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. Each successive model offers increasingly powerful performance, allowing users to select the optimal balance of intelligence, speed, and cost for their specific application.

9.) Q&A: How AI and ML Are Reshaping The Research Landscape | BioPharmaDive.com | 3/4/24

In a rapidly evolving landscape where artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become household terms, their impact on biopharmaceutical research and epidemiology is profound. I caught up with Mike Munsell, PhD, Director of Research at Panalgo, to discuss how these technologies are transforming the healthcare research landscape and their real-world applications in biopharmaceutical R&D. Classically trained epidemiologists know more about ML and AI than they think they do, and here’s why.

10.) How To Get The Most Out Of Your GenAI Deployment | Forbes.com | 3/4/24

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), the latest form of machine learning (ML), is rapidly gaining traction and creating new opportunities in the corporate world. It involves a series of algorithms that help professionals perform routine tasks, like reorganizing and classifying data and creating content, like text, audio, images, and videos. And with each breakthrough in the field, GenAI is having a significant impact across various sectors — from banking to life sciences to legal.

11.) Elon Musk files Bombshell Lawsuit Against OpenAI (“They Achieved AGI”) | Matthew Berman | YouTube | 3/3/24

Elon Musk just dropped a massive lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman personally. He claims OpenAI took his money, didn’t pay taxes, and then converted into a for-profit entity, breaking their original charter. Let’s break it all down.

12.) India Reverses AI Stance, Requires Government Approval For Model Launches | TechCrunch.com | 3/3/24

India’s Deputy IT Minister says AI advisory, which requires firms to comply with ‘immediate effect,’ is ‘signalling that this is the future of regulation.’

13.) California Gives Waymo The Green Light To Expand RoboTaxi Operations | TheVerge.com | 3/2/24

Waymo is now allowed to drive on highways in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.

14.) Francine Bennett Uses Data Science To Make AI More Responsible | TechCrunch.com | 3/3/24

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized.

15.) AI News: Brace Yourself for the Coming AI Storm! | Matt Wolfe | YouTube | 3/1/24

Here’s the AI News you probably missed this week.

16.) What Is Trustworthy AI? | Blogs.Nvidia.com | 3/1/24

Trustworthy AI is an approach to AI development that prioritizes safety and transparency for the people who interact with it.

17.) Here Come the AI Worms | Wired.com | 3/1/24

Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents — potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way.

18.) Midjourney’s Next Leap: Consistent Characters and Describe Feature | News.FutureTools.io | 3/1/24

As highlighted by Nick St. Pierre in a recent tweet, the digital art world is abuzz with anticipation for Midjourney’s imminent feature rollout. Next week, the platform plans to unveil two major enhancements: a “consistent character” feature and a redefined “describe” function. This announcement signals a significant leap forward in digital artistry and development capabilities.

19.) AI Chip Startup Groq Acquires Definitive Intelligence To Scale Its Cloud Platform | SiliconAngle.com | 3/1/24

Groq Inc., a well-funded maker of artificial intelligence inference chips, has acquired fellow startup Definitive Intelligence Inc. for an undisclosed sum.

20.) Huge Funding Round Makes “Figure” Big Tech’s Favorite Humanoid Robot Company | ArsTechnica.com | 3/1/24

Investors Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and Intel value Figure at $2.6B.

21.) Motorola Teases First AI-Powered Android Phone To Challenge Samsung’s AI Throne | AndroidCentral.com | 3/1/24

The Moto X50 Ultra aims to snatch the AI spotlight from the Galaxy S24.

22.) China Rules That An AI Bot Infringed Copyrighted Material | Semafor.com | 3/1/24

A Chinese court found that images generated by an artificial intelligence service infringed the copyright of a popular Japanese superhero character, a Chinese newspaper reported, in what appears to be the first ruling of its kind.

23.) Elon Musk Sues OpenAI And Sam Altman Over ‘Betrayal’ of Nonprofit AI Mission | TechCrunch.com | 3/1/24

Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and its affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers have breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the nonprofit’s founding mission to develop AI that benefits humanity.

24.) The Mind-Blowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers Instantly | Wired.com | 3/1/24

AI chips from startup Groq allow chatbots to answer queries almost instantly. That could open up whole new use cases for generative AI helpers.

25.) Dell Soars to Record Fueled by Excitement for AI Prospects | Bloomberg.com | 3/1/24

Commercial and consumer personal computer revenue drops 12%. Company raises its dividend by 20% to 44.5 cents a share.

26.) Is There Anything AI Can’s Do? | TechCrunch.com | 3/1/24

None of this will come as a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention, but the vast number of next-generation startups that are coming our way would indicate that the AI tentacles are going far and wide.

27.) Windows 11 Update Brings New Tricks to Microsoft Copilot | TechRepublic | 2/29/24

Microsoft’s generative AI companion Copilot gets more deeply integrated into Windows 11 with the latest software update, which also includes new voice control and accessibility tools.

28.) AI Will Be Essential In Education — But Do Kids Know How To Use It? | CoinTelegraph.com | 2/29/24

As AI becomes increasingly prevalent in education, concerns arise over children’s proficiency in navigating its complexities and potential pitfalls.

29.) A Poster’s Guide To Who’s Selling Your Data To Train AI Vox.com | 2/29/24

Those Tumblr, Reddit, and WordPress posts you never thought would see the light of day? Yep, them too.

30.) Google’s Deal With Stack Overflow Is the Latest Proof That AI Giants Will Pay for Data | Wired.com | 2/29/24

Stack Overflow’s programming community will power a version of Google’s Gemini chatbot. It’s part of a new breed of AI data licensing deals with websites seeking a cut of the generative AI boom.

31.) How To Use A Vector Database | Forbes.com | 2/29/24

AI is popular. So popular is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Machine Learning (ML) functions that drive it, that we have started to look into the core mechanics of AI to know more about how its internal component parts work. With some additional understanding of what makes AI smartness smart, the hope (for many of us) is that we can eradicate AI bias and hallucination, drive AI to do the things we really want it to do… and of course stop the robots taking over the planet (joke).

32.) Meta Aims to Equip Llama 3 with Advanced Contentious Topic Handling Amidst AI Industry Challenges | News.FutureTools.io | 2/29/24

Meta plans to make Llama 3 more adept at handling controversial questions, improving on Llama 2’s overly cautious responses. The company is set to appoint an internal overseer for tone and safety training, aiming for a July release of Llama 3.

33.) Automated Data Mining With Python: A Comprehensive Guide in 2024 | TechBullion.com | 2/29/24

Data is more precious than gold! If you believe this thought has emerged from a figment of imagination or just admiration for data, then you need to revisit your thought process. Because data is no more a transient aspect but a long lasting factor that can lead a successful implication on the way businesses can scale and thrive. However, from the colossal amount of data, extracting the most valuable insights is not an easy task and demands effort and evaluation with pristine movement. This is where Automated Data Mining with Python steps in and eases down the woes of data collection and analysis. Are you wondering what exactly is data mining and how it helps businesses? This guide is specifically curated for you to glean insights and make informed decisions using right set of data.

34.) Windows 11’s Big New Update Is Full Of AI And Rolling Out Today — Here’s What’s In It | ZDNet.com | 2/29/24

Microsoft is preparing another major update to its flagship operating system, with new AI tools that will allow it to begin monetizing its Copilot for Windows 11 feature more quickly.

35.) A Viral Photo Of A Guy Smoking In Mcdonald’s Is Completely Fake — And Of Course Made By AI

Just look at the fingers. You always have to look at the fingers.

36.) Introducing Microsoft Copilot for Finance | Blogs.Microsoft.com | 2/28/24

Today we’re announcing the public preview of Microsoft Copilot for Finance, the newest Copilot offering designed for business functions that extends Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and revolutionizes how finance teams approach their daily work. Copilot for Finance joins Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service, now generally available, to provide AI-powered, role-based workflow automation, recommendations and guided actions in the flow of work.

37.) Microsoft Is Working With Nvidia, AMD, And Intel To Improve Upscaling Support In PC Games | TheVerge.com | 2/28/24

DirectSR is a new Windows API described as the ‘missing link’ between games and DLSS, FSR, and XeSS.

38.) AI Models Make Stuff Up. How Can Hallucinations Be Controlled? | Economist.com | 2/28/24

It is hard to do so without also limiting models’ power.

39.) Google’s AI Isn’t Too Woke. It’s Too Rushed. | Bloomberg.com | 2/28/24

The search giant has a chronic habit of dashing off half-baked AI products and neglecting safety checks.

40.) Google Brings Stack Overflow’s Knowledge Base To Gemini For Google Cloud | TechCrunch.com | 2/28/24

Stack Overflow’s OverflowAPI program with Google is revolutionizing developer resources by integrating validated Stack Overflow answers into Gemini for Google Cloud. This collaboration aims to blend AI with expert knowledge, ensuring high-quality content and enhancing user experience.

41.) Tim Cook Says Apple Will ‘Break New Ground’ In GenAI This Year | TechCrunch.com | 2/28/24

Apple CEO Tim Cook is promising that Apple will “break new ground” on GenAI this year. Cook made the pronouncement during the company’s annual shareholders meeting today, which came in the same week the company reportedly scuttled its multibillion-dollar, decade-long plan to build an EV. Some of the staff on the EV project were reassigned to work on various GenAI initiatives, according to multiple publications.

42.) How To Make A Photo Look Like A Painting Using AI ? | TechBullion.com | 2/29/24

Nowadays, web software offers a wide range of feature-rich solutions that simplify the content creation process from beginning to end. Bgrem.ai, an AI-powered SAAS, is one such solution.This innovative service not only enables you to create stunning images and videos but also harnesses advanced content generation technologies to enhance your creativity.

43.) Google Is Reportedly Paying Some News Sites To Use Its AI For Writing Articles | AndroidCentral.com | 2/29/24

Google insists its new AI tool won’t steal journalists’ jobs, though some people are worried.

44.) OpenAI Sued, Again, For Scraping And Replicating News Stories | TheRegister.com | 2/29/24

Three digital publishers have sued OpenAI over claims that it stole their copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT in two separate lawsuits filed on Wednesday.

45.) What Is Sovereign AI? | Blogs.Nvidia.com | 2/28/24

Sovereign AI refers to a nation’s capabilities to produce artificial intelligence using its own infrastructure, data, workforce and business networks.

46.) And … Action! Cuebric CEO Provides Insights Into Filmmaking Using AI | Blogs.Nvidia.com | 2/28/24

These days, just about everyone is a content creator. But can generative AI help make people create high-quality films and other content affordably? Find out from Pinar Seyhan Demirdag, cofounder and CEO of Cuebric, during his conversation with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz.

47.) Lightricks Announces LTX Studio, A Platform For AI-Generated Longform Video | X | Matt Wolfe | 2/28/24

Lightricks just unveiled @LTXStudio, a platform that allows you to go from video idea to completed video completely with AI… Like full length videos, with multiple generated scenes, consistent characters, consistent lighting, and all the tools to make your vision a reality.

48.) Stability AI Partners With Morph Studio For An Improved AI Video Creation Workflow | X | Morph Studio | 2/28/24

With Morph Studio’s All-in-One video generation solution, your inspirations from text, images, or existing videos evolve into captivating stories. Experience seamless creation with multi-parallel connections for every spark of creativity. Dive into the AI era with us, where every idea finds its vision.
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49.) Alibaba Group Releases Emo Research For Expressive Audio-To-Video Face Portraits | Github | Humanaigc | 2/28/24

We proposed EMO, an expressive audio-driven portrait-video generation framework. Input a single reference image and the vocal audio, e.g. talking and singing, our method can generate vocal avatar videos with expressive facial expressions, and various head poses, meanwhile, we can generate videos with any duration depending on the length of input video.

50.) Ideogram Introduces Ideogram 1.0 With Better Realism, Prompt Adherence, And Text Input | X | Ideogram | 2/28/24

Ideogram 1.0 offers state-of-the-art text rendering, unprecedented photorealism, exceptional prompt adherence, and a new feature called Magic Prompt to help with prompting.

51.) Klarna CEO Boasts His AI Can Do Work Of 700 People After Laying Off 700 People in 2022 | Gizmodo.com | 2/28/24

The company said its new AI customer service assistant was “in no way connected” to the layoffs.

52.) RIP To The Apple Car, We Hardly Knew Ye
| TheVerge.com | 2/28/24

Apple’s decision to kill its secretive car project is a reflection of the harsh reality confronting electric and autonomous vehicles across the globe.

53.) Adobe Reveals A GenAI Tool For Music | TechCrunch.com | 2/28/24

Today at the Hot Pod Summit in Brooklyn, Adobe unveiled Project Music GenAI Control, a platform that can generate audio from text descriptions (e.g. “happy dance,” “sad jazz”) or a reference melody and let users customize the results within the same workflow.

54.) Meta’s Zuckerberg Discusses Mixed Reality Devices, AI With LG Leaders In South Korea | Reuters.com | 2/28/24

Meta Platforms, opens new tab CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday met LG Electronics, opens new tab executives to discuss a stronger partnership in extended reality (XR) devices as well as potential cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI), LG said.

55.) Pika Labs Gives More Control Over Ai-Generated Videos With New Lip Sync Feature | X | Pika | 2/27/24

We know there’s been a lot of talk about AI generated video recently. Well, look who’ talking now! Early Access to Lip Sync is available for Pro users now at http://pika.art.

56.) OpenAI Claims The Times Cheated To Get ChatGPT To Regurgitate Articles | TheVerge.com | 2/27/24

The company asks a federal court to dismiss four of the outlet’s seven copyright infringement claims against it.

57.) Tumblr’s Owner Is Striking Deals With OpenAI And Midjourney For Training Data, Says Report | TheVerge.com | 2/27/24

The deal has been rumored on the site for days, but there’s still little concrete detail.

58.) New in Superhuman AI: Instant Reply | SuperHuman.com | 2/27/24

Today, I am thrilled to announce our latest AI feature: Instant Reply. Imagine waking up to an inbox where every email has a draft reply. You would simply edit, then send. Sometimes, you wouldn’t even edit.

59.) Github Copilot Enterprise Is Now Generally Available | Github.Blog | 2/27/24

Our most advanced AI offering to date is customized to your organization’s knowledge and codebase, infusing GitHub Copilot throughout the software development lifecycle.

60.) How to Use ChatGPT’s Memory Feature | Wired.com | 2/26/24

The latest update to OpenAI’s chatbot improves the AI’s ability to remember user details, but the feature is not yet available for all ChatGPT accounts.

61.) Bezos, Nvidia join OpenAI in funding humanoid robot startup, Bloomberg reports | Reuters.com | 2/26/24

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Nvidia and other big technology names are investing in startup Figure AI that develops human-like robots, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the situation.

62.) Google DeepMind Unveils AI ‘Genie’ to Instantly Conjure Playable Games | Decrypt.co | 2/26/24

Trained on over 200,000 hours of gameplay videos, the experimental model can turn any image or idea into a 2D platformer.

63.) MWC 2024: Everything Announced So Far, Including A Samsung Smart Ring, Google AI Features | TechCrunch.com | 2/26/24

The big smartphone show also has Jolla’s ‘blackbox for your life’ and SynFlora’s skincare tech.

64.) Google Hopeful Of Fix For Gemini’s Historical-Image Diversity Issue Within Weeks TechCrunch.com | 2/26/24

Google is hopeful it will soon be able to “unpause” the ability of its multimodal generative AI tool, Gemini, to depict people, per DeepMind founder, Demis Hassabis. The capability to respond to prompts for images of humans should be back online in the “next few weeks,” he said today.

65.) Lenovo’s Project Crystal Is a Concept Laptop With a Transparent Display | Wired.com | 2/26/24

You can see clearly now through the Project Crystal. But what is it for? And is a transparent phone next?

66.) You Asked, I Answered: Everything About the Rabbit R1 | Matthew Berman | YouTube | 2/23/24

After the massive success of my previous video reviewing the Rabbit device, the Rabbit team reached out to me and wanted to answer questions and concerns directly from my comments section. Hopefully, this clears up a lot of confusion about how the device will work. I’m incredibly excited to get mine (ordered on day 1) and will review it when I get it.

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