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22 May

AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder

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We are happy to share that our book AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder across online booksellers. The publication date is September 24, 2024. If you have enjoyed reading our newsletter and would like to support our work, please preorder the book via Amazon, Bookshop, or your favorite bookseller. We get two recurring questions about the book: In an area as fast moving as AI, how long can a book stay relevant? How similar is the book to the newsletter?The answer to both questions is the same. We know that book publishing moves at a slower timescale than AI. So the…

22 May

Microsoft marches on in Asia with $2.2B AI and cloud investment in Malaysia – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTJames Farrell, Microsoft marches on in Asia with $2.2B AI and cloud investment in Malaysia, SiliconANGLE

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will invest $2.2 billion in Malaysia over a four-year period, building a new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country and partnering with the government to open a National AI Center. “We are committed to supporting Malaysia’s AI transformation and ensure it benefits all Malaysians,” said Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella. “Our investments in digital infrastructure and skilling will help Malaysian businesses, communities and developers apply the latest technology to drive inclusive economic growth and innovation across the country.” The company has recently announced a slew of major investments around the world, mostly…

22 May

Meta introduces Chameleon, a state-of-the-art multimodal model

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Join us in returning to NYC on June 5th to collaborate with executive leaders in exploring comprehensive methods for auditing AI models regarding bias, performance, and ethical compliance across diverse organizations. Find out how you can attend here. As competition in the generative AI field shifts toward multimodal models, Meta has released a preview of what can be its answer to the models released by frontier labs. Chameleon, its new family of models, has been designed to be natively multi-modal instead of putting together components with different modalities. While Meta has not released the models yet, their reported experiments show…

21 May

Microsoft unveils new Copilot+ PCs featuring AI capabilities

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Microsoft has launched a new type of personal computer designed with AI capabilities, underscoring the company’s commitment to integrating cutting-edge technology across its product lineup. This new category not only boosts Microsoft’s ventures but also positions it to compete directly with AI-led advancements from tech giants such as Alphabet and Apple. During an event at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington, CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the Copilot+ PCs. These computers, developed in collaboration with manufacturers like Acer and Asustek Computer, align with Microsoft’s stock prices reaching near all-time highs amid Wall Street’s expectations that AI will significantly boost earnings for major tech firms. These PCs are engineered to manage a greater share of…

21 May

Palantir’s Military AI Tech Conference Sounds Absolutely Terrifying

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Earlier this month, the military and intelligence-tied data monger Palantir — alongside big tech giants Google and Microsoft — sponsored DC's inaugural "AI Expo for National Competitiveness."Which, judging by The Guardian's summary of the event, sounds like it was an Orwellian nightmare fever dream to end all other military-industrial conferences.The relationship between Silicon Valley and the US military has experienced a bit of a rekindling in recent years — a renaissance in large part pushed forward in by the collision of advancements in AI, robotics, various autonomous weapons and vehicles, and surveillance. If anything, Palantir's recent event was a celebration of this…

21 May

‘People are going to try to steal your secrets’ Dixon warns

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Kissimmee, Fla. – As U.S. intelligence agencies increase their reliance on commercial geospatial products and services, cybersecurity becomes a growing concern. “We create so many innovative solutions here in this country,” Stacey Dixon, U.S. deputy director of national intelligence, said May 6 at the 2024 GEOINT Symposium here. “Yet we lose a lot of that innovation to adversaries because we aren’t properly protecting it. Invest in your cybersecurity. Understand that people are going to try to steal your secrets.” Potential adversaries will seek access to commercial products directly as well as through intermediaries. Figure out how to prevent that, “because…

21 May

ChatGPT suspends Scarlett Johansson-like voice as actor speaks out against OpenAI

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Scarlett Johansson has spoken out against OpenAI after the company used a voice eerily resembling her own in its new ChatGPT product.The actor said in a statement she was approached by OpenAI nine months ago to voice its AI system but declined for “personal reasons”. Johansson was “shocked” and “angered” when she heard the voice option, which “sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference,” she said.OpenAI removed a heavily promoted voice option from ChatGPT on Monday, following a widespread reaction and comparisons to Johansson to the flirtatious, feminine voice…

20 May

The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

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If you search “shrimp Jesus” on Facebook, you might encounter dozens of images of artificial intelligence (AI) generated crustaceans meshed in various forms with a stereotypical image of Jesus Christ. Some of these hyper-realistic images have garnered more than 20,000 likes and comments. So what exactly is going on here? The “dead internet theory” has an explanation: AI and bot-generated content has surpassed the human-generated internet. But where did this idea come from, and does it have any basis in reality? An example of a shrimp Jesus image on Facebook with no caption or context information included in the post.…

20 May

AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It’s time to switch to Pareto curves.

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By Sayash Kapoor, Benedikt Stroebl, Arvind NarayananWhich is the most accurate AI system for generating code? Surprisingly, there isn’t currently a good way to answer questions like these. Based on HumanEval, a widely used benchmark for code generation, the most accurate publicly available system is LDB (short for LLM debugger). But there’s a catch. The most accurate generative AI systems, including LDB, tend to be agents, which repeatedly invoke language models like GPT-4. That means they can be orders of magnitude more costly to run than the models themselves (which are already pretty costly). If we eke out a 2% accuracy…

20 May

Accelerate AI development with MongoDB AWS integration – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTMark Albertson, MongoDB accelerates AI development with new Amazon Bedrock integration, SiliconANGLE

Among several announcements made by MongoDB Inc. today was the news that Atlas Vector Search Integration with Knowledge Bases on Amazon Bedrock had moved into general availability. The move was designed to help accelerate development of generative artificial intelligence applications and build features using fully managed foundation models more easily. “It enables us to have developers use the tools for building the apps that they want to use, knowing full well that they don’t have to leave that console to come to our console to integrate MongoDB,” said Peder Ulander (pictured, left), chief marketing officer of MongoDB. “We’re part of…