The TL Podcast for May 20th: The momentum in the AI trade Everyone is scrutinizing the AI payoff of every company, Nvidia will have another chance to prove its AI payoff this week, while Applied Materials and Cisco get some props for their own AI payoff, and absolutely one is
BIG TECH
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Google Gemini 1.5 Pro Fails on Basic Translation Request
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I caused Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro to fail with my first prompt A very basic request for language translation was rejected with a bizarre message about 'unsafe content.' It's unclear if it's merely a bug or some more fundamental flaw in Google's new language model.
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OpenAI Safety Overhaul, Apple Partnership, New AI Tools
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Top stories in AI today: -OpenAI dissolves AI safety team
-Apple and OpenAI plan major announcement
-Easily ingest user data for your AI app
-DINO 1.5 advances AI object detection
-6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs Read more: http://
therundown.ai/p/openais-safe
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Three Essential Leadership Qualities for Tech Leaders
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Three less-obvious qualities of great leaders:
1. Willingness to self-doubt
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Naming Major AI and Computing Technologies at Google
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It's nice to have good names for things. I'm proud to have named or been involved in naming a bunch of things at Google over the years, including: MapReduce
Bigtable
Spanner
TensorFlow
Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)
Pathways
Protocol Buffers
PaLM
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OpenAI Pauses Sky Voice Over Scarlett Johansson Similarity Concerns
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TL;DR: Following the GPT-4o demo, it's clear that the voice of Sky (one of the available voices) resembles Scarlett Johansson, something that's even more evident with the system's similarity to the one in the movie Her. Today OpenAI [has paused] for the use of this voice,
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US Technology Leadership and International Intellectual Property Disputes
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I think there is back and forth stealing and spying all throughout history, it's part of the world But you never heard US complain about it when they were in the lead technologically etc. That's why I think it's a bit of a sign of weakness to go ban everything and accuse them
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NVIDIA and Dell deliver latest AI solutions for enterprises
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#DellTechWorld Keynote is tomorrow! Tune in to hear how NVIDIA and @DellTech are delivering the latest #AI solutions and transforming enterprises. May 20, at 10 a.m. P.T. https://
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Chinese Hardware Spyware Claims Debunked Market Protection Concerns
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There has been no concrete evidence there has been any spyware in Chinese hardware and the Bloomberg piece was later debunked It seems more about protecting US markets than anything
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Western Tech Bans Against China Market Dominance
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Reciprocity is true of course: China banned Facebook, Google etc. before But what concerns me is that the West has always been known for its freedom, especially the United States China becoming #1 in literally everything but then the West banning them from our markets only