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• ChatGPT Is Showing Signs of Laziness. OpenAI Says A.I. Might Need a Fix - Just like humans, artificial intelligence may be slacking off around the holidays. Some say it's laziness, some say it's seasonal depression, but either way, it may have learned it from us.

• AI-generated news anchors show off superhuman abilities - There's a new global news network launching in 2024 which completely ditches humans for AI-generated newsreaders – and they're showing off some superhuman capabilities that make it very clear: the days of the human news presenter are numbered.

• Google is rolling out new AI models for health care. Here’s how doctors are using them - Google announced MedLM, a suite of new health-care-specific artificial intelligence models designed to help clinicians and researchers carry out complex studies, summarize doctor-patient interactions and more.

• EU reaches provisional agreement on AI Act, paving way for landmark law - The set of comprehensive rules that will govern AI in Europe could serve as a benchmark for other countries.

• Why the AI Act was so hard to pass - Over two years since it was first proposed, policymakers in Brussels were still debating core contents of the EU’s landmark AI regulations hours before reaching a deal.

• Midjourney launches alpha version for AI image generation on the web - Compared to Discord, it offers a simpler interface where you can set parameters like aspect ratio, chaos, or style using sliders and tags. You can also insert images into a prompt with a single click.

• Atlassian welcomes AI to the team - AI capabilities are now generally available across Jira Software, Confluence, Jira Service Management and more.

• Microsoft research claims GPT-4 performance enhancement - A prompting technique called Medprompt significantly enhances GPT-4's performance.

• Microsoft announces Phi-2, a small but powerful model - Phi-2, a 2.7 billion-parameter language model that demonstrates outstanding reasoning and language understanding capabilities, showcasing state-of-the-art performance among base language models with less than 13 billion parameters.

• Microsoft offers politicians protection against deepfakes - Microsoft will launch Content Credentials for digital watermarking, create teams to work with political campaigns on cybersecurity and AI, and endorse a bill banning AI in political ads.

• Climate Groups to Biden: AI Will Worsen Climate Change Crisis - Not only will AI help spread climate change disinformation, but AI is already demanding more energy than ever before.

• Microsoft Game Developer Union Reaches Deal On How AI Can Be Used In Workplace - Workers at ZeniMax Studios, the developer behind 'The Elder Scrolls Online,' have bargained with the tech giant to implement six principles for the use of AI.

• Microsoft agrees to buy electricity generated from Sam Altman-backed fusion company Helion in 2028 - Microsoft has signed a power purchase agreement with nuclear fusion startup Helion to buy electricity from it in 2028.

• Runway AI introduces General World Models (GWM) - We believe the next major advancement in AI will come from systems that understand the visual world and its dynamics, which is why we’re starting a new long-term research effort around what we call general world models.

• AI made from living human brain cells performs speech recognition - A biocomputing system consisting of living brain cells learned to recognise the voice of one individual from hundreds of sound clips.

• Alter3, a humanoid robot powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 is here - With the help of GPT-4 it can now adopt a range of poses including a selfie stance or pretending to be a ghost and does so without those poses having first to be programmed into its database.

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