Insider's Edit: DreamFusion proof-of-concept, GDPR, and Google Cloud Next '22

Welcome back to the Insider’s Edit, presenting the three most-read stories on enterprise AI from the last week. This week, take a look at Google’s new DreamFusion proof of concept, the UK government’s recent announcement that it will ‘replace’ GDPR and highlights and updates from #GoogleCloudNext ’22.

Latest in generative AI requires no training on 3D model data

Researchers from Google are the latest to unveil a generative AI tool capable of turning text prompts into digital 3D representations.

This latest release, dubbed DreamFusion, requires no prior training – generating 3D representations of objects without 3D data.

Google’s team proposed the concept of Score Distillation Sampling – a way of generating samples from a diffusion model by optimizing a loss function.

Read: Google’s DreamFusion uses AI to generate 3D models from text

New culture secretary decries ‘red tape of GDPR'

In one of a series of rollbacks for the U.K. Government, Michelle Donelan, the secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, announced plans to scrap the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The proposed data regime changes include removing the need for small businesses to undertake data protection impact assessments or appoint a data protection officer.

It would also focus on reducing ‘user consent’ forms – instead adopting an opt-in model to allow users to set their online cookie preferences to opt out automatically.

However, in her speech addressing the plans, Donelan said the U.K. wants to emulate data regimes in countries such as Japan, South Korea and Israel ? which prompted Prime Minister Liz Truss to clarify that she wants provisions made to the bill so as not to infringe on free speech.

Read: UK to replace GDPR with ‘consumer-friendly’ privacy regime

Google Cloud Next: AI-powered translation tools, document-searching capabilities and more.

It might have felt like Google Cloud Next was overshadowed by MetaConnect this year, but Google unveiled three new releases and a slew of updates.

• BigQuery -?a new capability to analyze unstructured and streaming data in this serverless data warehouse platform.
• Vertex AI Vision - an end-to-end application development environment allowing developers to analyze and store visual data.
• ?Translation Hub - using Google Cloud AI tech, including Neural Machine Translation and AutoML, to translate content for enterprise-relevant documents.

Google also rolled out expanded support for data formats such as Apache Iceberg, commitment to the OpenXLA Project and integrations with several partners, including MongoDB, ServiceNow, Sisu Data, Collibra and Palantir Technologies .

Read: Google Cloud Next '22: Highlights featuring new tools, updates

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