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Baidu mentioned it’s readying main updates to its Ernie bot. The Chinese language expertise firm teased the upgrades in an advert through which Ernie goes lacking and other people neglect find out how to perform.
US senators drafted laws that will shield performers from AI impersonations. That generated Drake and Weeknd tune will need to have actually jarred lawmakers sufficient to introduce the No Fakes Act.
AMD, one of many world’s largest pc chip companies, acquired an AI startup. AMD desires to shore up competitors with its rival Nvidia; the acquisition comes as generative AI offers are trending down (extra on that beneath).
And in one other downturn, AI startups are shedding employees. Founders are putting the blame on excessive rates of interest, which have translated to much less funding.
OpenAI is near signing the largest workplace deal in San Francisco since 2018. AI is boosting the metropolis’s workplace glut.
AI offers are already on the decline, at the least for now
Offers for generative AI had been down 29% within the third quarter of this 12 months in comparison with the one earlier than it, with their values totaling $6.1 billion—an quantity that was principally made up by Amazon’s $4 billion settlement with language mannequin supplier Anthropic.
There are a pair components that may very well be main traders to pump the brakes. One is that Massive Tech, with its market affect and deep pockets, is likely to be scaring away smaller gamers. However even Massive Tech has slowed down its dealmaking. And valuations are nonetheless all around the map, additional complicating issues.
Regardless of these shifts, the AI hype isn’t dying—moderately, traders are narrowing their bets, and so they’re hyper-focused on firms with enterprise AI that may decrease again workplace prices and handle boring stuff.
Pop quiz: Around the globe in AI regulation
Which nation has drafted guidelines that will require suppliers of AI techniques to submit a danger evaluation earlier than rolling out the product to the general public?
A. Japan
B. Brazil
C. US
D. Italy
We’ve obtained the reply proper right here (together with what different international locations are doing), or you’ll be able to scroll all the way down to the underside of this electronic mail to seek out out.
Quotable: The tough actuality of AI watermarking
“We broke all of them.”—College of Maryland pc science professor Soheil Feizi in an interview with Wired in regards to the present use of watermarking in AI photos, even because the G-7 desires to ask firms to make use of them.
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Ask an AI—or a gaggle of them without delay
Character.AI allows you to chat with avatars of well-known personalities (or simply, nicely, personalities—suppose “psychologist” or “English trainer”). They’re all user-generated, in that you just inform the instrument what your character is like and add instance messages.
Up to now, Character.AI has raised $190 million in funding from traders like Andreessen Horowitz and Greycroft. And although the corporate says customers spend a mean of two hours on the location per day, it’s straightforward to see it getting previous fairly quick. That’s the place Character.AI’s new premium characteristic is available in: A bunch chat of as much as 5 AI chatbots and 5 different people without delay.
We determined to assemble some economists—say, John Maynard Keynes, Adam Smith, and Janet Yellen—subsequent to somebody having a massive impact on the worldwide economic system proper now: Taylor Swift. We additionally added a speaking sloth, for enjoyable.
However although we did get some broad-strokes monetary evaluation from AI Yellen, our economists principally simply wished to maintain speaking about how nice Taylor was. The sloth actually wished to speak about leaves.
The extra we talked, the extra everybody began to sound alike, even utilizing the identical phrases again and again, so we swapped out Keynes for William Shakespeare. Whereas AI-speare did sound fairly erudite, he didn’t precisely write just like the Bard. Instantly, everybody modified their tone to match his, even the sloth.
May this characteristic ever have helpful functions apart from taking part in round on a Friday afternoon? If the expertise turns into extra refined, having Adam Smith focus on economics with Janet Yellen could be enlightening—as would having the ability to make a few characters out of your favourite TV present work out their variations in a method that you just want they’d accomplished again in season 2. But it surely’s not there but.
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The proper reply to the pop quiz is B., Brazil. Whatever the danger classification of AI techniques, regulators say that individuals affected by these techniques have the precise to a proof a few resolution or a suggestion made inside 15 days of the request. Learn extra about what different international locations are saying about AI regulation.
