Six months ago, many top AI researchers called for a pause on the development of anything more powerful than GPT-4. Many say they are still deeply concerned, but more about disinfo, job displacement, and the rising power of big tech than existential risks.
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Meta Launches Human-Like AI Characters Amid Safety Concerns
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During #MetaConnect, Meta unveiled new generative AI tools for users, developers and businesses as well as dozens of new celebrity AI "characters." Meanwhile, consumer advocates are warning of the dangers of designing AI to appear “human-like." My latest: https://
digiday.com/media/meta-add
s-a-human-element-to-ai-while-others-warn-it-all-could-be-too-human-like/
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Meta’s Photorealistic Metaverse Avatar Tech Impresses Crypto Community
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The #Metaverse is real: Zuck’s ‘incredible’ photorealistic tech wows crypto Twitter https://
cointelegraph.com/news/metaverse
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IBM Named AIOps Leader in Latest Omdia Universe Report
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@IBM named a Leader and “the most consistent #AIOps vendor in the Universe in terms of performance across all sub- categories” in the latest Omdia Universe report: https://
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Venture Firms Secure GPU Access for AI Startups Through Tech Giants
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What's going on here?
Venture firms are using their connections at Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and others to get AI startups preferential access to limited GPU chips. What does this mean?
Firms like Greylock, Madrona, and Bessemer have been instrumental in helping their portfolio -
Jurassic Foundation Models Now Available on AWS Bedrock
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Our Jurassic foundation models are widely available in @awscloud Bedrock! We are excited to provide more AWS builders and businesses with our reliable, sophisticated and flexible LLMs. Read more here >>
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Google’s AI Impact: 500M Users, Healthcare Screening, Translation
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So many fun numbers: 15: Google products w/500M+ users 250,000: patients screened for diabetic retinopathy 133: languages Google Translate supports. 1.2 million: tons of CO2 emissions that eco-friendly routing on Google Maps has helped prevent +more
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GPT-4 Vision gains multimodal capabilities: vision, audio, speech
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Nous sommes à quelques heures d’un saut majeur dans le domaine de l’IA générative. GPT-4 Vision va désormais pouvoir voir, écouter et parler. Le futur qui se dessine devant nous promet de bousculer toutes nos certitudes. C’est à la fois passionnant et vertigineux.
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Innovation Without Oversight Concentrates Human Data Control
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So….pretty soon many people will realize saying “don’t hinder innovation” means they’ve allowed all human data and agency to be controlled by a tiny group of cultish people who don’t care about nature or the rest of us. So – thanks.
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HPE NVIDIA HPC System Breaks Financial Risk Calculation Records
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Read about how @HPE and NVIDIA system for #HPC and #GenerativeAI sets records for financial risk calculations in STAC-A2 benchmark. https://
nvda.ws/3LHQOhk