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6/30/2023
Microsoft is testing a new feature for its AI search chatbot, Bing Chat, that can infer the probability of future stock prices using option prices. The feature is still in development, but if it is successful, it could revolutionize the way investors make decisions.[1] Inflection AI, a startup backed by several Silicon Valley heavyweights, said…
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6/29/2023
The famous gaming company, Valve, is not taking any AI-generated artwork for all the uploads for Steam, with its policies centering on owning all of the assets that are uploaded on the platform. Its developer shared their story on Reddit which details his journey about Valve’s rejection and the message that comes along with it.[1]…
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6/28/2023
AlphaGo from Google’s DeepMind AI lab made history by defeating a champion player of the board game Go. Now Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s cofounder and CEO, says his engineers are using techniques from AlphaGo to make an AI system dubbed Gemini that will be more capable than that behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT.[1] As anyone who’s seen depictions…
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6/27/2023
Baidu, the leading search engine provider in China, announced that its latest version of the Ernie AI model, Ernie 3.5, has surpassed the widely popular OpenAI chatbot, ChatGPT, in multiple key metrics. Baidu made this statement on Tuesday, highlighting Ernie 3.5’s superior comprehensive ability scores compared to ChatGPT and its outperformance in several Chinese capabilities…
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6/26/2023
Despite Tesla CEO Elon Musk‘s strong criticism of the downside of AI, Tesla’s AI team recently announced on Twitter the progress of Tesla’s custom supercomputer platform Dojo, indicating that the computer will go into production in July 2023 and that Dojo is expected to be one of the world’s five most advanced supercomputers by early…
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6/25/2023
A combination of citizen science and artificial intelligence has been used to prove different populations of the weedy or common seadragon found across their range on the Great Southern Reef are genetically linked.[1] Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said generative AI chatbots can teach kids to read in 18 months rather than years. AI is beginning…
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6/24/2023
Sony Music has created a new position — Executive VP Of AI, hiring former BPI CEO Geoff Taylor, according to Billboard, who obtained an internal memo from the company. The new role will involve Sony “coordinating its business efforts surrounding AI” and “coordinating across the global digital business and business and legal affairs division.”[1] Prime…
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6/23/2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a special t-shirt as a gift from Joe Biden on Friday which had his quote on AI printed on it – ‘The future is AI – America & India’. PM Modi, during his address to the joint sitting of the US Congress, gave a new definition for AI – America…
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6/22/2023
DeepMind latest paper introduces a self-improving AI agent for robotics, RoboCat, that learns to perform a variety of tasks across different arms, and then self-generates new training data to improve its technique.[1] OpenAI has lobbied for significant elements of the most comprehensive AI legislation in the world—the E.U.’s AI Act—to be watered down in ways…
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6/21/2023
New studies about the likely economic impact of ChatGPT and other AI-powered tools should be sounding alarm bells throughout Latin America: They suggest that the region may fall further behind the technologically-advanced world.[1] Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke to reporters about the “comprehensive framework” he is proposing to regulate artificial intelligence and his intent to…
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6/18/2023
Google, ever eager to lean into generative AI, is launching a new shopping feature that shows clothes on a lineup of real-life fashion models. Google’s virtual try-on tool for apparel takes an image of clothing and attempts to predict how it would drape, fold, cling, stretch, and form wrinkles and shadows on a set of…
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6/15/2023
AI-powered robots are giving eyelash extensions. It’s cheaper and quicker. LUUM, a beauty studio in Oakland, Calif., uses robots to give clients false eyelash extensions using AI technology.[1] German automaker Mercedes-Benz announced Thursday that it will add OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to its cars via a beta program for the Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) feature in…