DALL-E 2 adds 'black'/'female'; Microsoft is To Retire This AI; A radical new project to democratize AI; A million people on DALL-E’s waitlist

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[Inc.]?Microsoft Becomes the First in Big Tech To Retire This AI Technology: First, there was an assumption that emotions come in defined categories: Happy, Sad, Angry, etc. Second, that these defined categories have equally defined external manifestations on your face.?

[The Verge]?A million people on DALL-E’s waitlist: The company says it’s taking steps like blocking uploads of realistic faces to reduce the creation of deceptive content and prohibiting users from generating “violent, adult, or political content, among other categories .”

[IEEE] WILL AI STEAL SUBMARINES’ STEALTH? Better detection will make the oceans transparent—and perhaps doom mutually assured destruction

[NewScientist]?AI art tool DALL-E 2 adds 'black' or 'female' to some image prompts: Researchers experimenting with OpenAI's text-to-image tool, DALL-E 2, noticed that it seems to covertly be adding words such as "black" and "female" to image prompts, seemingly in an effort to diversify its output

[MIT]?Sony’s racing AI destroyed its human competitors by being nice (and fast): What Gran Turismo Sophy learned on the racetrack could help shape the future of machines that can work alongside humans, or join us on the roads.

[Paper] MegaPortraits: One-shot Megapixel Neural Head Avatars

[Nature] Neural network learns simple physics like a baby: The network, (PLATO), was trained on tens of hours of videos showing simple mechanisms such as a ball rolling down a slope or two balls bouncing off each other, and developed the ability to predict how those objects would behave in different situations.

[LinkedIn Post]?The Key to Fighting a Rare Disease Like ALS? Data and AI

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[Futurism] Authors Are Starting To Use Ai To Quickly Churn Out Novels, Is This A Good Idea? Like many AIs designed to create artwork in various mediums based on prompts, it takes practice and skill to get usable chunks of text — users have to learn to communicate ideas with the AI, making the process something akin to a machine-human collaboration.

[MIT]?Inside a radical new project to democratize AI: A group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3—and they’re giving it out for free.

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