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New AI image generator is 8 times faster than OpenAI’s best tool and can run on cheap computers – Livescience.com
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can generate images in under two seconds and it doesn't need expensive hardware to run. South Korean scientists have used a special technique called knowledge distillation to compress the size of an open source (or publicly available) image generation model known as Stable Diffusion XL which has 2.56 billion parameters, or variables the AI uses to learn during training. The smallest version of the new model, known as "KOALA", has just 700 million parameters, meaning it's lean enough to run quickly and without needing expensive and energy-intensive hardware
Google CEO: Gemini AI photo diversity scandal offended our users – The Verge
Hi everyone I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard). I know that some of its responses have offended our users and shown bias to be clear, thats completely unacceptable and we got it wrong
The AI Culture Wars Are Just Getting Started – WIRED
Google was forced to turn off the image-generation capabilities of its latest AI model, Gemini, last week after complaints that it defaulted to depicting women and people of color when asked to create images of historical figures that were generally white and male, including vikings, popes, and German soldiers. The company publicly apologized and said it would do better. And Alphabets CEO, Sundar Pichai, sent a mea culpa memo to staff on Wednesday
Alibaba’s AI video generator just dunked on Sora by making the Sora lady sing – Mashable
Alibaba wants you to compare its new AI video generator to OpenAI's Sora. Otherwise, why use it to make Sora's most famous creation belt out a Dua Lipa song
AI Outshines Humans in Creative Thinking – Neuroscience News
Summary: ChatGPT-4 was pitted against 151 human participants across three divergent thinking tests, revealing that the AI demonstrated a higher level of creativity. The tests, designed to assess the ability to generate unique solutions, showed GPT-4 providing more original and elaborate answers.
Google Is Paying Publishers Five-Figure Sums to Test an Unreleased Gen AI Platform – Adweek
Google launched a private program for a handful of independent publishers last month, providing the news organizations with beta access to an unreleased generative artificial intelligence platform in exchange for receiving analytics and feedback, according to documents seen by ADWEEK. As part of the agreement, the publishers are expected to use the suite of tools to produce a fixed volume of content for 12 months
Wendy’s surge price reframe, Tyler Perry blames AI, and inflation falls : The Indicator from Planet Money – NPR
Wendy's surge price reframe, Tyler Perry blames AI, and inflation falls : The Indicator from Planet Money It's Indicators of the Week, our weekly look under the hood of the global economy! Today on the show: Tyler Perry halts his film studio expansion plans because of AI, Wendy's communications about a new pricing board goes haywire and a key inflation measure falls. Related episodes:Listener Questions: the 30-year fixed mortgage, upgrade auctions, PCE inflation (Apple / Spotify) AI creates, transforms and destroys... jobs (Apple / Spotify) The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines (Apple / Spotify) The Birth And Death Of The Price Tag For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over betrayal of nonprofit AI mission – TechCrunch
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and its affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers have breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the nonprofits founding mission to develop AI that benefits humanity.
How AI is already helping scientists track threatened humpback whales – NPR
Humpback whales that spend their winters in Hawaii, like this mother and calf, have declined over the last decade. Martin van Aswegen /Marine Mammal Research Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, NMFS Permit No: 21476/21321 hide caption Humpback whales that spend their winters in Hawaii, like this mother and calf, have declined over the last decade
Adobe announces new prototype AI tool for creating and editing audio – The Verge
Adobes latest generative AI experiment aims to help people create and customize music without any professional audio experience. Announced during the Hot Pod Summit in Brooklyn on Wednesday, Project Music GenAI Control is a new prototype tool that allows users to generate music using text prompts and then edit that audio without jumping over to dedicated editing software