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Top AI News Headlines for Thursday February 1st
FCC moves to outlaw AI-generated robocalls
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Today’s Headlines:
FCC moves to outlaw AI-generated robocalls - The FCC is proposing that using voice cloning tech in robocalls be ruled fundamentally illegal, making it easier to charge the operators of these frauds.
OpenAi's early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation - OpenAI is developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat.
Mistral CEO confirms ‘leak’ of new open source AI model nearing GPT-4 performance - A mysterious model called ‘Miqu’ that neared GPT-4 performance posted on HuggingFace was a leaked version of Mistral’s — with open source models rapidly catching up to industry leaders.
AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report - The selloff following the tech giants' reports underscored investors' elevated expectations following an AI-fueled stock market rally in recent months that propelled their shares to record highs with the promise of incorporating the technology across the corporate landscape.
Zum Raises $140M At $1.3B Valuation To Help Kids Get to School Faster With AI - Zum tries to help school districts increase efficiencies and reduce the costs of managing bus fleets through its proprietary platform — that, of course, uses AI. The platform gives districts visibility so they can optimize routes and even deliver real-time updates to parents.
Mastercard jumps into generative AI race with model it says can boost fraud detection by up to 300% - The new Decision Intelligence Pro feature is powered by a proprietary recurrent neural network — a core part of generative AI — built in house, and allows banks to better assess suspicious transactions on its network.
Could AI 'trading bots' transform the world of investing? - One in three investors would be happy to let a trading bot make all the decisions for them, according to one 2023 survey in the US. Business psychologist Stuart Duff says some people simply trust computers more than other humans.
How AI Is Transforming the Way Political Campaigns Work - VotivateAI is an attempt to leap-frog over existing campaign tools into the future with 3 offerings that will change how campaigns operate.
Google’s Bard chatbot gets the Gemini Pro update globally - Google announced today that its Bard chatbot is now powered by the Gemini Pro model globally with support for more than 40 languages.
AI company hired to clone Mayor Adams' voice linked to Biden deepfake, researchers say - Mayor Eric Adams in October announced he’d hired ElevenLabs, a London artificial intelligence start-up, to create a series of robocalls that made it seem like Adams could speak several foreign languages. Detecting synthetic speech in the realm of political messaging is going to become increasingly important so voters can stay informed.
Protect AI adds LLM support with open source acquisition - Protect AI has integrated open source LLM Guard into proprietary AI security capabilities after acquiring Laiyer AI. LLM Guard is a security toolkit for LLM interactions designed to detect and block data leakage and prompt-based attacks on LLMs.
AI chatbots can be tricked into misbehaving. Can scientists stop it? - Although filters typically remove the worst content before it is fed into the large language model, foul stuff can slip through. Once a model digests the filtered text, it must be trained not to reproduce the worst bits.
ePlus Announces AI Ignite: Artificial Intelligence Assessment, Enablement and Implementation Offerings - ePlus inc. announced the availability of AI Ignite, a comprehensive suite of AI Solutions and Services designed to help organizations at any stage of their AI Journey to assess, enable, secure, implement and amplify the use of AI technologies.
AI in healthcare and regulation, according to AWS - Amazon Web Services has concerns around AI use in healthcare and regulating the technology. But it can show the benefits of AI/ML in helping life sciences firms with drug development. Dr. Jared Saul, chief medical officer at AWS, discusses the issues.
Google launches an AI-powered image generator - ImageFX offers a prompt-based UI to create and edit images. That’s no different than other image generator tools, but ImageFX’s unique twist is “expressive chips” — basically a list of keyword suggestions that let users experiment with “adjacent dimensions” of their creations and ideas.
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