The Politics of Generative AI: AI-generated imagery flooded Argentina's presidential race.
Generative AI

The Politics of Generative AI: AI-generated imagery flooded Argentina's presidential race.

Argentina’s recent presidential race was a battleground of AI-generated imagery. Candidates Javier Milei and Sergio Massa flooded social media with generated images of themselves and each other, The New York Times reported. On Sunday, Milei won the election’s final round.

November 22, 20232 min read
The Politics of Generative AI: AI-generated imagery flooded Argentina's presidential race.
Generative AI

The Politics of Generative AI: AI-generated imagery flooded Argentina's presidential race.

Argentina’s recent presidential race was a battleground of AI-generated imagery. Candidates Javier Milei and Sergio Massa flooded social media with generated images of themselves and each other, The New York Times reported. On Sunday, Milei won the election’s final round.

November 22, 20232 min read
Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV
Generative AI

Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV

The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended as actors and studios reached an accord on the use of generative AI in making movies. 

November 15, 20232 min read
Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV
Generative AI

Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV

The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended as actors and studios reached an accord on the use of generative AI in making movies. 

November 15, 20232 min read
Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification: StableRep, a method that trains vision transformers on images generated by Stable Diffusion
Generative AI

Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification: StableRep, a method that trains vision transformers on images generated by Stable Diffusion

Generated images can be more effective than real ones in training a vision model to classify images. Yonglong Tian, Lijie Fan, and colleagues at Google and MIT introduced StableRep, a self-supervised method that trains vision transformers on images generated by...

November 8, 20232 min read
Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification: StableRep, a method that trains vision transformers on images generated by Stable Diffusion
Generative AI

Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification: StableRep, a method that trains vision transformers on images generated by Stable Diffusion

Generated images can be more effective than real ones in training a vision model to classify images. Yonglong Tian, Lijie Fan, and colleagues at Google and MIT introduced StableRep, a self-supervised method that trains vision transformers on images generated by...

November 8, 20232 min read
Generative AI as Development Platform: All the new models and products announced by OpenAI during DevDay
Generative AI

Generative AI as Development Platform: All the new models and products announced by OpenAI during DevDay

OpenAI added new features designed to help developers build applications using its generative models. OpenAI introduced a plethora of capabilities at its first developer conference in San Francisco.

November 8, 20232 min read
Generative AI as Development Platform: All the new models and products announced by OpenAI during DevDay
Generative AI

Generative AI as Development Platform: All the new models and products announced by OpenAI during DevDay

OpenAI added new features designed to help developers build applications using its generative models. OpenAI introduced a plethora of capabilities at its first developer conference in San Francisco.

November 8, 20232 min read
Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.
Generative AI

Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.

Text-to-image generators often miss details in text prompts, and sometimes they misunderstand parts of a prompt entirely. Synthetic captions can help them follow prompts more closely.

November 1, 20233 min read
Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.
Generative AI

Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.

Text-to-image generators often miss details in text prompts, and sometimes they misunderstand parts of a prompt entirely. Synthetic captions can help them follow prompts more closely.

November 1, 20233 min read
Hype Overshoots Reality: Big AI buzz may not equal profit
Generative AI

Hype Overshoots Reality: Big AI buzz may not equal profit

AI companies are soaring on promises they can revolutionize society while making a profit. What if they're flying too close to the sun? The latest models generate publication-worthy essays and award-winning artworks, but it’s not clear how to make them generate enough revenue...

October 25, 20232 min read
Hype Overshoots Reality: Big AI buzz may not equal profit
Generative AI

Hype Overshoots Reality: Big AI buzz may not equal profit

AI companies are soaring on promises they can revolutionize society while making a profit. What if they're flying too close to the sun? The latest models generate publication-worthy essays and award-winning artworks, but it’s not clear how to make them generate enough revenue...

October 25, 20232 min read
AI Turns Deadly: The dangerous outputs of Large Language Models
Generative AI

AI Turns Deadly: The dangerous outputs of Large Language Models

Large language models occasionally generate information that’s false. What if they produce output that’s downright dangerous? Text generators don’t know true from false or right from wrong. Ask an innocent question about food or health, and you might get an innocent — but fatal — answer.

October 25, 20231 min read
AI Turns Deadly: The dangerous outputs of Large Language Models
Generative AI

AI Turns Deadly: The dangerous outputs of Large Language Models

Large language models occasionally generate information that’s false. What if they produce output that’s downright dangerous? Text generators don’t know true from false or right from wrong. Ask an innocent question about food or health, and you might get an innocent — but fatal — answer.

October 25, 20231 min read
Newsroom AI Poses Opportunities, Challenges: New survey identifies journalists' hopes and worries for Generative AI
Generative AI

Newsroom AI Poses Opportunities, Challenges: New survey identifies journalists' hopes and worries for Generative AI

Journalists are approaching text generators with cautious optimism, a new study shows. Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science surveyed workers at over 100 news organizations worldwide. 85 percent of respondents said they had experimented with generative AI.

October 11, 20232 min read

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