AI WEEKLY NEWS (12) – WEEK 29-JULY to 04-August-2023
Florian Prem
CDAO, CISM, Data / AI leader & practitioner with more than 20 years experience in Data, Analytics, Digital Transformation, AI and Change
This article is not generated by AI.
Generative AI is coming to Jupyter notebooks
Jupyter AI is adding generative AI models to Jupyter notebooks to summarize content, explain and generate code or generate entire notebooks. Models providers include OpenAI , Anthropic ,? Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sagemaker and Bedrock, Hugging Face , Cohere , AI21 Labs – see the documentation for more details [Jupyter]
Zoom changes Terms of Service to train AI with user content without Opt-Out
Besides no opt-out it will also allow Zoom to resell your content (10.4 Customer License Grant) [stackdiary.com]
Update 08-Aug-2023: Zoom provides the following clarification:
"...For AI, we do not use audio, video, or chat content for training our models without customer consent..." [Zoom Blog]
IBM and NASA build an open-source AI foundation model to help fight climate change
The largest geospatial foundation model on Hugging Face and the first-ever open-source AI foundation model built in collaboration with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ?[IBM]
USB is predicting CAGR of 61% for AI demand between 2022 to 2027
瑞银集团 has raised their long-term AI demand forecast from 20% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for 2020 – 2025 to 61% CAGR for 2022 – 2027 [UBS]
Walmart is using AI to reshape their organisation and jobs
沃尔玛 , US biggest employer, is using AI to reshape the jobs of their staff and their product organisation. [NBC News Video]
Google is introducing tools to AI-generate online Ads
谷歌 Ads is now providing AI-based / LLM-based tools to advertisers to generate ad campaigns across bidding, budget optimisation, audiences, creatives, attribution, etc. First users have reported up to 18% higher conversion rates [India Times]
Scientists use AI to identify extinct molecules from Neanderthal proteins to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Datadog launches new AI-powered DevOps tool
[Datadog]
高盛 Economics Research forecasts global AI investment to reach $200 billion by 2025
麦肯锡 publishes state of AI in 2023
YouTube is testing AI auto-generated video summaries
While there are already some YouTube video summary tools out there, Google / YouTube has now started their own “experiment” with auto-generated summaries. Currently only on selected videos and to some users [Google]
Meta has announced AudioCraft – a generative AI tool for audio and music
Meta describes it as a framework to easily generate high-quality audio and music from text. Also open-sourcing MusicGen, AudioGen and EnCodec for research purposes.
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