The election year focus on 'deep fakes' is a distraction, conveniently ignoring the documented role of surveillance ads–or, the ability to target specific segments to shape opinion. This's a boon to Meta/Google, who've rolled back restrictions on political ads in recent years.
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Microsoft, Apple, Roblox Lead AI Advances: Tools and Jobs
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Top stories in AI today: -Microsoft partners with news orgs for AI research
-Roblox bridges language barriers with AI chat translator
-Create coloring book images with AI -Apple boosts AI speech recognition
-8 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs Read more: http://
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Weekly AI Podcast: Bard, Vision Pro, Tech Earnings
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We cover some big topics on this week’s podcast, including the latest noteworthy updates from Google Bard, the Apple Vision Pro launch, big tech earnings calls (it was a good week to own Meta’s stock), and how to evaluate Generative AI platform costs. And we also delve into the
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Apple’s AI Assistant: The Future of Personal 24/7 Butler Technology
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That’s what I was thinking; you will have an all time available assistant at your side, that will help schedule the day and explain everything you need to know. As soon as Apple releases their LLM and Siri will get a body, everyone will have their own 24/7 butler
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Apple’s LLM and Vision Pro Will Create Personal Floating Assistant
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Do you guys relize that we will have our own personal assistant, floating around us, answering all our requests and helps us with our daily life as soon as @Apple realeses their LLM and connects siri to #AppleVisionPro ! Something I ever dreamed of, a personal assistant i can see
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Apple’s Personal LLM Butler for Daily Life Management
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I mean, you can have your personal Butler floating aside you and answering all your requests and structures your daily life when @apple releases their own LLM!
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OpenAI’s Response to Gemini’s Best-in-Class LLM Challenge
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Especially what @OpenAI will release answering Geminis call for best in class LLM
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NVIDIA Explores Local Cloud Compute for GenAI in India
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Join Raj Mirpuri, VP of Enterprise & Cloud Sales @nvidia as he explores the importance of local cloud compute & India-based datacenters for #genAI & the NVIDIA partnership with OCI at Oracle #CloudWorld Tour: Mumbai on Feb. 14 at 12 p.m. IST. Register now: https://
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Huawei Prioritizes AI Chips Over Smartphone Production
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Huawei is slowing its phone production — despite becoming China's leader in smartphone sales. The reason? Prioritizing AI chips amid surging global demand. Quite a statement on where the tech giant sees the future of AI heading.
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GPT-4 Performance Issues After Holiday Laziness Period
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Sam Altman posted that GPT-4's performance should be ramped up after its reported 'laziness' during the holidays. Even AI struggles with New Year's resolutions: