Criminals Unleashed: When AI falls in the hands of lawbreakers and wrongdoers
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Criminals Unleashed: When AI falls in the hands of lawbreakers and wrongdoers

Do the latest machine learning models constitute a supercharged tech stack for cybercrime? Innovations like text generation, voice cloning, and deepfake videos give scammers powerful new ways to gain their victims’ trust and infiltrate their systems. They threaten to bring on an epidemic of e-fraud.

October 25, 20231 min read
AI Turns Deadly: The dangerous outputs of Large Language Models
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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
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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
Cost Containment for Generative AI: Microsoft's quest to reduce the size and cost of language models
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Cost Containment for Generative AI: Microsoft's quest to reduce the size and cost of language models

Microsoft is looking to control the expense of its reliance on OpenAI’s models. Microsoft seeks to build leaner language models that perform nearly as well as ChatGPT but cost less to run.

October 18, 20232 min read
Cost Containment for Generative AI: Microsoft's quest to reduce the size and cost of language models
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Cost Containment for Generative AI: Microsoft's quest to reduce the size and cost of language models

Microsoft is looking to control the expense of its reliance on OpenAI’s models. Microsoft seeks to build leaner language models that perform nearly as well as ChatGPT but cost less to run.

October 18, 20232 min read
Generative AI Calling: Google brings advanced computer vision and audio tech to Pixel 8 and 8 Pro phones.
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Generative AI Calling: Google brings advanced computer vision and audio tech to Pixel 8 and 8 Pro phones.

Google’s new mobile phones put advanced computer vision and audio research into consumers’ hands. The Alphabet division introduced its flagship Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones at its annual hardware-launch event. Both units feature AI-powered tools for editing photos and videos.

October 18, 20232 min read
Generative AI Calling: Google brings advanced computer vision and audio tech to Pixel 8 and 8 Pro phones.
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Generative AI Calling: Google brings advanced computer vision and audio tech to Pixel 8 and 8 Pro phones.

Google’s new mobile phones put advanced computer vision and audio research into consumers’ hands. The Alphabet division introduced its flagship Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones at its annual hardware-launch event. Both units feature AI-powered tools for editing photos and videos.

October 18, 20232 min read
Newsroom AI Poses Opportunities, Challenges: New survey identifies journalists' hopes and worries for Generative AI
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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
Newsroom AI Poses Opportunities, Challenges: New survey identifies journalists' hopes and worries for Generative AI
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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
Facebook’s Generative Facelift: All about the AI upgrades of Meta's Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram
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Facebook’s Generative Facelift: All about the AI upgrades of Meta's Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram

Meta is rolling out AI-powered upgrades to its social platforms. Meta announced a chat interface, image generator, and celebrity tie-ins for Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. The new capabilities take advantage of LLaMa 2 and an unnamed image generator, presumably CM3leon.

October 11, 20232 min read
Facebook’s Generative Facelift: All about the AI upgrades of Meta's Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram
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Facebook’s Generative Facelift: All about the AI upgrades of Meta's Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram

Meta is rolling out AI-powered upgrades to its social platforms. Meta announced a chat interface, image generator, and celebrity tie-ins for Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. The new capabilities take advantage of LLaMa 2 and an unnamed image generator, presumably CM3leon.

October 11, 20232 min read
GPT-4 Opens Its Eyes: Early insights into what OpenAI's GPT-4 with Vision can do
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GPT-4 Opens Its Eyes: Early insights into what OpenAI's GPT-4 with Vision can do

Few people have had a chance to try out OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Vision (GPT-4V), but many of those who have played with it expressed excitement. 

October 11, 20233 min read
GPT-4 Opens Its Eyes: Early insights into what OpenAI's GPT-4 with Vision can do
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GPT-4 Opens Its Eyes: Early insights into what OpenAI's GPT-4 with Vision can do

Few people have had a chance to try out OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Vision (GPT-4V), but many of those who have played with it expressed excitement. 

October 11, 20233 min read
Video Sharing Goes Generative: YouTube’s upcoming AI features help producers easily reach bigger audiences.
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Video Sharing Goes Generative: YouTube’s upcoming AI features help producers easily reach bigger audiences.

YouTube is reinventing itself for the era of generative AI. The Google-owned video platform is adding generated topic ideas, backgrounds, music suggestions, and audio translations. These capabilities will be available in late 2023 or early 2024.

October 4, 20231 min read
Video Sharing Goes Generative: YouTube’s upcoming AI features help producers easily reach bigger audiences.
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Video Sharing Goes Generative: YouTube’s upcoming AI features help producers easily reach bigger audiences.

YouTube is reinventing itself for the era of generative AI. The Google-owned video platform is adding generated topic ideas, backgrounds, music suggestions, and audio translations. These capabilities will be available in late 2023 or early 2024.

October 4, 20231 min read

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