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New Jersey’s $500 Million Bid to Become an AI Epicenter
25 Jul

New Jersey’s $500 Million Bid to Become an AI Epicenter

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New Jersey has a new plan to become the US hub for AI innovation. The state’s governor signed a law on Thursday that will offer up to $500 million in tax credits for artificial intelligence companies to set up shop in the state.“We want New Jerseyans to stand at the forefront of the AI revolution—and build a more prosperous world in the process,” New Jersey’s Governor, Phil Murphy, a Democrat, said in a statement. “And in so doing, we are going to establish New Jersey as the home-base for R&D in generative AI.”AI companies and data centers that power AI…
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At The Olympics, AI Is Watching You
25 Jul

At The Olympics, AI Is Watching You

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“What we're doing in transforming CCTV cameras into a powerful monitoring tool,” says Matthias Houllier, co-founder of Wintics, one of four French companies that won contracts to have their algorithms deployed at the Olympics. “With thousands of cameras, it's impossible for police officers [to react to every camera.]”Wintics won its first public contract in Paris in 2020, gathering data on the number of cyclists in different parts of the city to help Paris transport officials as they planned to build more bike lanes. By connecting its algorithms to 200 existing traffic cameras, Wintics’ system—which is still in operation—is able to…
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Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky
23 Jul

Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

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Most tech moguls hope to sell artificial intelligence to the masses. But Mark Zuckerberg is giving away what Meta considers to be one of the world’s best AI models for free.Meta released the biggest, most capable version of a large language model called Llama on Monday, free of charge. Meta has not disclosed the cost of developing Llama 3.1 but Zuckerberg recently told investors that his company is spending billions on AI development.Through this latest release, Meta is showing that the closed approach favored by most AI companies is not the only way to develop AI. But the company is…
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TikTok Lite Leaves up to 1 Billion Users With Fewer Protections
23 Jul

TikTok Lite Leaves up to 1 Billion Users With Fewer Protections

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In May, TikTok announced that it would automatically label AI-generated content on its platform. That's not true, though, of all versions of the app. A new report from the Mozilla Foundation and AI Forensics finds that TikTok’s Lite-Save Data version, aimed at users in poorer markets, not only leaves AI-generated content unlabeled, but also lacks other, similar safeguards.“Labeling is a very important tactic that platforms use to deliver some form of trust and safety,” says Odanga Madung, a Mozilla fellow and coauthor of the report.Users of the full version of TikTok, for example, will see labels indicating that content is…
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RealPage Says Rental Pricing Tech Is Misunderstood, but Landlords Aren’t So Sure
17 Jul

RealPage Says Rental Pricing Tech Is Misunderstood, but Landlords Aren’t So Sure

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Yardi Systems, another US property management company, is also facing a class action suit regarding antitrust violations for artificially inflating rent prices. The company has said it did “nothing illegal,” as it does not mandate rent prices through its software or make “collusive pricing decisions.”Typical rental costs in Phoenix have increased by more than about $500 a month from April 2020 to 2024, and by around $400 in Washington, DC, in the same period, according to Zillow.Renters have also filed numerous class action suits against RealPage and property owners that have been consolidated. Some landlords named in those settled claims…
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Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI
16 Jul

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI

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In response to the suits, defendants such as Meta, OpenAI, and Bloomberg have argued that their actions constitute fair use. A case against EleutherAI, which originally scraped the books and made them public, was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiffs.Litigation in remaining cases remains in the early stages, leaving the questions surrounding permission and payment unresolved. The Pile has since been removed from its official download site, but it’s still available on file-sharing services.“Technology companies have run roughshod,” said Amy Keller, a consumer protection attorney and partner at the firm DiCello Levitt who has brought lawsuits on behalf of creatives whose…
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Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look
14 Jul

Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career:Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important thing isn’t “can you read music?” It’s “can you hear it?” Can you hear the music, Robert?Oppenheimer: Yes, I can.I can’t hear the algebra, but I feel the machine.I felt the machine even before I touched a computer. In the 1970s I awaited the arrival of my first one, a Radio Shack TRS-80, imagining how it would function. I wrote some simple programs on paper and could feel the machine I didn’t yet…
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AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era
11 Jul

AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era

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Right now, generative artificial intelligence is impossible to ignore online. An AI-generated summary may randomly appear at the top of the results whenever you do a Google search. Or you might be prompted to try Meta’s AI tool while browsing Facebook. And that ever-present sparkle emoji continues to haunt my dreams.This rush to add AI to as many online interactions as possible can be traced back to OpenAI’s boundary-pushing release of ChatGPT late in 2022. Silicon Valley soon became obsessed with generative AI, and nearly two years later, AI tools powered by large language models permeate the online user experience.One…
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AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better
10 Jul

AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better

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Khanmigo doesn't answer student questions directly, but starts with questions of its own, such as asking whether the student has any ideas about how to find an answer. Then it guides them to a solution, step by step, with hints and encouragement.Notwithstanding Khan’s expansive vision of “amazing” personal tutors for every student on the planet, DiCerbo assigns Khanmigo a more limited teaching role. When students are working independently on a skill or concept but get hung up or caught in a cognitive rut, she says, “we want to help students get unstuck.”Some 100,000 students and teachers piloted Khanmigo this past…
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