?? AI News: From ByteDance’s Safety Blunder to OpenAI’s GPT-5 Anticipation - The AI Landscape in 2024 (March 21, 2024)
Filipe Bento
Applied AI (ML, CV, GenAI), Cloud expert. PhD, MSc, Eng, Manager, Developer, Researcher | Head of Division, Digital Resources & User Support, Libraries @UAveiro | Data ETL, Web tech, AI Agents Orchestration & Automation.
In this edition, I summarize 54 entries showcasing the latest AI advancements and their impact across various sectors, from societal changes to business transformations and technological innovations.
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AI and Society:
AI in Media:
10. YouTube tells creators to start labeling ‘realistic’ AI content ??
11. OpenAI’s latest Sora video shows an elephant made of leaves ??
12. The Best AI Search Engines and Tools You Can Use to Search the Web ??
13. Inside the AI Competition That Decoded an Ancient Scroll and Changed Papyrology Forever ??
14. Artist’s guide to how to spot AI images is essential reading ??
15. Top 10 Best AI Video Generators in 2024 ??
AI in Business:
16. Smartling leads translation industry transformation with AI, driving 40% growth amid industry downturn ??
17. AI robot that can trim, edge, blow your lawn for you ??
18. Mercedes-Benz will use a humanoid robot called Apollo to build your next car ??
19. GoDaddy Airo Helps Small Business Operations with Generative AI ????
20. Revolutionising recycling with AI-enabled robots ??
21. This AI writing assistant is just $45 for life with this code ??
22. LimeWire Developer Brings the Power of AI to Your Apps ??
AI Technology:
23. Learn AI via Spreadsheet ??
24. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-4 ‘kinda sucks’, hints at GPT-5 boost ??
25. Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI ??
26. Nvidia debuts Earth-2 platform for enhanced climate forecasting ??
27. Nvidia DLSS is amazing, but only if you use it the right way ??
28. Sam Altman says he doesn’t think the world ‘needs another copy of Google’ because ‘that’s boring’ ??
29. New York Times: Microsoft’s AI Tools Are Nothing Like The VCR ??
30. Draft Paper Discovered in Which Joseph Weizenbaum Envisions ELIZA’s Applications ??
31. It sounds like iPhone 16 could get big AI upgrades ??
32. It sounds like iPhone 16 could get big AI upgrades ??
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AI and Society
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A US safety body for artificial intelligence (AI) experts has admitted a researcher from China-owned ByteDance was mistakenly added to US safety body for AI.
ReadWrite, 2024-03-19
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All levels of research are being changed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).
The Next Web, 2024-03-19
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has taken a very honest approach as he suggests GPT-4, the latest AI model from the team, isn’t as impressive as the world is making out.?
ReadWrite, 2024-03-19
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Substack.com, 2024-03-19
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YouTube is taking steps to try to help viewers better understand if what they’re watching has been created, whether completely or in part, by generative AI.
Digital Trends, 2024-03-19
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Altman said he found the idea of building a better search engine than Google "boring".
Business Insider, 2024-03-19
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MIT Technology Review, 2024-03-19
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OpenAI is facing a lawsuit from Musk, a former cofounder.
Business Insider, 2024-03-19
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Designing machines to think like humans provides insight into intelligence itself.
Scientific American, 2024-03-19
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Plus, Google rides high on Apple’s interest in Gemini AI.
Quartz India, 2024-03-19
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The New York Times has responded to Microsoft's motion to dismiss key claims in the highly publicized 'GPT' copyright infringement lawsuit.
Torrentfreak.com, 2024-03-19
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By Anton Korinek and Donghyun Suh, in a new NBER working paper: "We analyze how output and wages behave under different scenarios for technological progress that may culminate in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), defined as the ability of AI systems to perform all tasks that humans can perform".
Marginalrevolution.com, 2024-03-19
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It’s become a cliché, but AI for the sake of AI is not the answer, and these products can’t be built in isolation.
Forbes, 2024-03-19
AI in Business
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As billions pour into generative AI and large language model startups from venture capital and private equity investors, attention is turning to identifying the industry verticals and companies most poised for AI-driven disruption.
e.VentureBeat, 2024-03-19
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Stop browsing the web with boring old Google Search.
MakeUseOf, 2024-03-19
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GoDaddy Airo improves small business digital operations with AI, saving time and money in order to grow the online presence of companies.
Small Business Trends, 2024-03-19
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People everywhere can’t seem to get enough of video content, and chances are, you’ve been told you should be creating more of it.
Hongkiat.com, 2024-03-19
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing our world.
Speckyboy.com, 2024-03-19
AI in Science and Technology
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While we’ve been known to use and abuse spreadsheets in the past, we haven’t taken it to the level of [Spreadsheets Are All You Need].
Hackaday, 2024-03-19
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Nvidia today introduced its Earth-2 cloud platform at the GTC 2024 event in San Jose, California, aimed at advancing global… Continue reading Nvidia debuts Earth-2 platform for enhanced climate forecasting The post Nvidia debuts Earth-2 platform for enhanced …
ReadWrite, 2024-03-19
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Text-to-video technology powered by AI is making rapid improvements — just take a look at the latest footage created by OpenAI's incredible Sora tool.
Digital Trends, 2024-03-19
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Electric Sheep Robotics has introduced an all-electric autonomous robot named Verdie to perform edging, trimming and debris-blowing.
Fox News, 2024-03-19
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Humanoid Robots could soon be building your next car, as Mercedes-Benz enters into a commercial agreement with Apptronik.
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ReadWrite, 2024-03-19
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DLSS is quickly become a cornerstone feature of modern PC gam
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Digital Trends, 2024-03-19
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The Herculaneum scrolls, charred and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, were unreadable—until now
Scientific American, 2024-03-19
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This is today’s edition of?The Download,?our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology The AI Act is done.
MIT Technology Review, 2024-03-19
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How is this new tech keeping unnecessary waste out of landfill?
Springwise.com, 2024-03-19
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Central bankers said on Tuesday they have broken new ground by using artificial intelligence to collect data for assessing climate-related financial risks.
Yahoo Entertainment, 2024-03-19
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Discover the telltale signs of generative AI.
Creative Bloq, 2024-03-19
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But they won't be from Apple itself.
Creative Bloq, 2024-03-19
AI History
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20240318: Draft Paper Discovered in which JW Envisions ELIZA's Applications With invaluable support of the MIT Archivists, especially Allison Schmitt, we have discovered a truly amazing draft (more precisely, outline) of a paper, hand-signed by Joseph Weizenbaum.
Google News, 2024-03-19
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Scientists use AI to create antibodies from scratch
Researchers used generative artificial intelligence to create new antibodies for the first time. This proof-of-principle work opens up the possibility of bringing AI-guided protein design to the therapeutic antibody market, which is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
The research team has designed thousands of antibodies that recognize specific regions of various bacterial and viral proteins. About one in every 100 antibody designs worked as expected.
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Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection, joins Microsoft to lead Copilot
Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan join Microsoft to form a new organization called Microsoft AI, focused on advancing Copilot and other consumer AI products. Mustafa will be EVP and CEO of Microsoft AI, and Karén joins as Chief Scientist.
Several members of the Inflection team chose to join Mustafa and Karén at Microsoft. They include some of the most accomplished AI engineers, researchers and builders in the world.
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Nvidia's AI explosion is just beginning, says CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia is #1 on Fast Company's 2024 list of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies. Nvidia's technology is an essential ingredient in the progress of AI, with a dominant 85% market share for AI chips.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has led the company since its founding in 1993. The company pioneered the concept of graphics processing units (GPUs), high-performance chips for rendering 3D games and other visually intensive PC applications.
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AI Investigators Begin Using AI to Review Colleagues' Work
Academics focused on artificial intelligence have begun using generative AI to help them review colleagues' machine learning work. The authors found a small but consistent increase in apparent LLM use for reviews submitted three days or less before the deadline.
The authors suggest that between 6.5% and 16.9% of the text submitted as peer reviews to these conferences could have been substantially modified by LLMs, that is, beyond spelling correction or minor writing updates.
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI hallucinations are solvable, artificial general intelligence is 5 years away
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, addressed the issue of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) at Nvidia's annual developer conference, GTC. He suggests that if we specify AGI to be something very specific, a set of tests where a software program can do very well, he believes we will get there within 5 years.
Huang also addressed the topic of AI hallucinations, suggesting they are easily solvable, ensuring answers are well researched.
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DeepMind and Liverpool FC develop AI for tactical advice in football
Google DeepMind, in collaboration with Liverpool Football Club, has developed an artificial intelligence tool, called TacticAI, which can predict the outcome of corners in football matches and help coaches design tactics that increase or decrease the likelihood of a player taking a penalty. a shot on goal. TacticAI was trained on data from 7176 corners from the 2020 to 2021 English Premier League season.
Coaches can use AI to generate tactics for attacking or defending corners that maximize or minimize the chance of a given player receiving the ball, and of a team being able to get a shot on goal. In testing, the ball receiver was in TacticAI's top three candidates 78% of the time.
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Nvidia and Hippocratic AI Collaborate to Create AI Nurses
Nvidia announced a collaboration with Hippocratic AI, a healthcare company that offers generative AI nurses who work for just $9 per hour. Hippocratic promotes how it can replace real human nurses, who can cost $90 an hour, with its cheap AI agents that offer medical advice to patients via real-time video calls.
Hippocratic's AI nurses range in specialties from “Colonoscopy Screening” to “Breast Cancer Care Manager,” all for less than minimum wage. Hippocratic claims its AI nurses outperform human nurses in patient bedside behavior, politeness and are nearly equal in satisfaction, according to a survey.
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Fitbit and Google Gemini Collaborate on Personalized Health AI
Fitbit is collaborating with Google's research division to create a new large language model (LLM) based on Gemini. This LLM will provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations. The LLM, which Google calls Personal Health LLM, is being trained to give users actionable messages and guidance based on their own data.
AI can offer guidance on workouts and fitness schedules based on users' sleep quality. Google will test these AI features in the experimental section of the Fitbit mobile app, called Fitbit Labs. It will be available to paying users, who will be able to provide feedback on the new AI features.
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OpenAI prepares to release improved GPT-5
OpenAI plans to launch the next version of its model for ChatGPT, the generative AI tool that kickstarted the current wave of AI projects and investments, in the coming months. The company is training GPT-5, which is said to be “materially better”. After training, it will be tested internally and additionally “red teamed”, a process where employees and usually a selection of external people challenge the tool in various ways to find problems before it is made available to the public.
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Sensor Tower acquires rival Data.ai
Sensor Tower, a leading application analytics company, is acquiring rival Data.ai. As part of the deal, Sensor Tower is laying off some employees on the Data.ai team . Sensor Tower did not disclose financial terms of the deal, but said Bain Capital is providing credit-based financing.
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Superhuman accelerates email management with OpenAI API
Superhuman is using the OpenAI API to develop a series of next-generation email products. The aim is to reduce the time users spend managing their inboxes. The company has already launched several features powered by GPT.
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YouTube introduces tool for disseminating AI-generated content
YouTube is introducing a new tool that requires creators to disclose when realistic content is made with altered or synthetic media, including generative AI. The new label aims to strengthen transparency with viewers and build trust between creators and their audiences.
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Quilt develops AI assistants for solutions teams
Quilt, a platform that hosts AI assistants for solution sales teams, is being developed by Dan Chen, previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. Quilt's core products are AI-powered assistants designed to help solutions engineers with tasks such as filling out requests for proposals, answering basic technical questions, and preparing for demos.
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Waymo 2024 Open Dataset Challenges Announced
Waymo has announced the start of its 2024 Open Dataset Challenges, which will run until May 2024. The challenges cover a range of fundamental research topics in the field of autonomous driving.
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VLOGGER: Synthesis of Embodied Avatars through Multimodal Diffusion
VLOGGER is a method for generating videos of talking humans, driven by text and audio, from a single input image of a person. This method builds on the success of recent generative diffusion models. VLOGGER requires no training for each person, does not rely on face detection and cropping, generates the entire image (not just the face or lips), and considers a broad spectrum of scenarios that are critical to correctly synthesizing communicating humans.
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Slow start for the OpenAI Chatbots App Store
OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, launched an app store last fall in hopes that developers would create and sell their own conversational AI applications to ChatGPT customers. However, four months after the announcement of the GPT Store, some developers have expressed disappointment at the lack of customers for their products and say they have received little support from OpenAI in terms of analytics about its users.
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Microsoft and NVIDIA Announce Key Integrations to Accelerate Generative AI for Enterprises Worldwide
Microsoft and NVIDIA announced new integrations that leverage NVIDIA's latest Omniverse? and generative AI technologies across Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft 365. Microsoft will be one of the first organizations to bring the power of NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200 and advanced NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking for Azure, delivering next-generation trillion-parameter foundation models for natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition, and more.
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NVIDIA creates processor for the era of generative AI
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduced the company's new Blackwell computing platform, aimed at accelerating generative AI on large-scale language models with trillion-dollar parameters. Huang also introduced NVIDIA NIM, a new way of packaging and delivering software that connects programmers with hundreds of millions of GPUs to implement custom AI of all types.
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Microsoft is running pop-up ads in Chrome on Windows PCs to promote its search engine and AI assistant.
As users use Google's desktop browser on Windows 10 or 11, a dialog box suddenly appears on the side of the screen, encouraging people to make Bing the default search engine in Chrome. Additionally, users are informed that they can use Chrome to interact with the Bing chatbot, powered by OpenAI GPT-4, allowing them to ask questions and get answers using natural language. Microsoft confirmed this is real, saying: “This is a one-time notification giving people the choice to set Bing as their default search engine in Chrome.” For those who choose to set Bing as their default search engine in Chrome, when signed in to their Microsoft account, they also get more Copilot chat turns and chat history.
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GPT-4 AI Models: Similarities and Differences
There are now three GPT-4 class models, all powering their own chatbots: GPT-4 (accessible through ChatGPT Plus or Microsoft's CoPilot), Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus, and Google's Gemini Advanced1. Everyone has different personalities and strengths depending on whether they are programming or writing. All are multimodal, meaning they can “see” images, allowing them to work with a wide variety of real-world use cases. None of them come with instructions. LLMs are some of the most powerful software applications ever created, but no one really knows how to best use them, and there is very little documentation.
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OpenAI CTO can't answer basic questions about training data
In a recent interview, Mira Murati, CTO of OpenAI, was unable to satisfactorily answer a series of simple questions about the data used to train Sora, OpenAI's application for generating AI video. Murati stated that she used publicly available data, but when asked whether she used YouTube videos, she appeared confused and said that she was “actually not sure about that”.
Murati, living in a world of “eventualities”, provided no technical insights, specifics and very few details. These are the interviews that only the most popular tech companies get – relatively perfunctory exchanges where no one seems to be able to say “hey, what does this actually mean?”
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Cohere Command-R Enterprise Model arrives at ai.nvidia.com
Cohere announced that its recently released Command-R model, optimized for RAG and designed for enterprises to go into large-scale production, is coming to NVIDIA's recently released API catalog. The Command-R model is a generative AI model built specifically for enterprise use, which focuses on scalability, RAG, and integration with various development tools.
The NVIDIA API catalog will also host the Aya model from Cohere For AI, our nonprofit research lab. The Aya model is an open-source, multilingual LLM covering 101 languages, focused on traditionally underrepresented languages and cultures, and built for AI researchers.
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