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Top AI News Headlines for Thursday February 8th
OpenAI forms a new team to study child safety
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Today’s Headlines:
OpenAI forms a new team to study child safety - Kids and teens are increasingly turning to GenAI tools for help not only with schoolwork but personal issues. This new team will study ways to prevent its AI tools from being misused or abused by kids.
Google says goodbye to Bard and goes all in on its Gemini model, launches $20 paid tier for Gemini Ultra - Gemini Ultra will be available through a new $20 Google One tier (with a two-month-long free trial) that also includes 2TB of storage and the rest of Google’s One feature set. It's also launching a new Gemini app for Android where you can now replace your Google Assistant with Gemini, too.
Apple made an AI image tool that lets you make edits by describing them - MGIE, or MLLM-Guided Image Editing, will crop photos and brighten specific areas of a photo. It lets users describe in plain language what they want to change in a photo without ever touching photo editing software.
Elon Musk Backs AI Project to Decode Ancient Roman Scrolls - Elon Musk pledges financial support for the AI-driven Vesuvius Challenge to decode ancient Roman scrolls, enhancing historical research. The project's next phase aims to read entire scrolls with an estimated cost of potentially reaching up to $10 million for all scrolls.
YouTube: 4 Big bets for 2024 - We want to help everyone create. AI should empower human creativity, not replace it. And everyone should have access to AI tools that will push the boundaries of creative expression.
Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations - Glass has released an AI-powered camera upgrade that it says vastly improves image quality — without any weird AI upscaling issues.
US says leading AI companies join safety consortium to address risks - Leading artificial intelligence companies are among more than 200 entities joining a new U.S. consortium to support the safe development and deployment of generative AI.
AI-generated voices in robocalls can deceive voters. The FCC just made them illegal - Effective immediately, the regulation empowers the FCC to fine companies that use AI voices in their calls or block the service providers that carry them. It also allows call recipients to file lawsuits and gives state attorneys general a new mechanism to crack down on violators.
Crux is building GenAI-powered business intelligence tools - Crux creates AI models that answer questions about business data in plain language along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “For example, marketers using HubSpot can ask a question like ‘Why are my email campaigns to new users getting low conversions?'”
AI could change how first responders navigate through Massachusetts traffic - "That old way was you had to approach an intersection and you were maybe only a couple feet away to ask for a change, and if you're going at speed that change may not come,"; "By switching over and using AI and the cloud for connectivity, those traffic lights now can be controlled remotely and the whole way."
Daedalus, which is building precision-manufacturing factories powered by AI, raises $21M - Daedalus is looking to “redefine manufacturing,” with AI-powered factories for creating bespoke precision parts. Its software captures the manufacturing decisions data of one “part,” and uses that to guide the decisions around how a similar part is created in the future. Daedalus uses pattern matching to apply that previous knowledge to configure its machines for the new part.
California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill - The new bill would require companies training new AI models to test their tools for “unsafe” behavior, institute hacking protections, and develop the tech in such a way that it can be shut down completely.
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