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Gemini AI image tool to relaunch in a few weeks: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
27Feb By adminNo Comments
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Gemini AI image tool to relaunch in a few weeks: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis

[ad_1] Google plans to relaunch in the next few weeks its AI tool that creates images of people, which it paused last week after inaccuracies in some historical depictions, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said on Monday.Alphabet's Google began offering image generation through its Gemini AI models earlier this month. Some users, however, flagged on social media that it generated historical images which were sometimes inaccurate. "We have taken the feature offline while we fix that. We are hoping to have that back online very shortly in the next couple of weeks, few weeks", Hassabis said in a panel in the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The tool was not "working the way we intended", he added.Alphabet's shares were down 3.5% on Monday afternoon, the biggest drag on the benchmark S...
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Google unveils Gemma, a family of AI models for open-source developers; Know all about it
21Feb By adminNo Comments
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Google unveils Gemma, a family of AI models for open-source developers; Know all about it

[ad_1] Google has announced its latest innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) called Gemma on the heels of the launch of Gemini Pro 1.5 Pro a few days ago. Developed by Google DeepMind, It is a family of lightweight and open AI models that Google says Gemma is built from the same research and technology that was used to create Gemini.Announcing Gemma, Sundar Pichai, Google and Alphabet CEO posted on X, “Introducing Gemma - a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models for their class built from the same research & tech used to create the Gemini models.” Google announces GemmaGoogle has introduced Gemma in two variants -  Gemma 2B and 7B, and each of them is released with pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants. In a blog post, Google said that both of them share techn...
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Right to disconnect: AI assistants can help, but they may not be the silver bullet
19Feb By adminNo Comments
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Right to disconnect: AI assistants can help, but they may not be the silver bullet

[ad_1] In recent days, the “right to disconnect” has entered Australia's legislative agenda. It refers to employees' rights to refuse unreasonable after-hours contact from their employer.In a work landscape where employees are constantly available after hours thanks to smartphones and portable devices, and employers are competing in global markets and operating on tight deadlines, concerns about disconnecting from work are valid on both sides. Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants in the workplace are touted as a potential solution to this “availability creep”. But they may not be the silver bullet, despite what big tech wants us to think. A crushing digital debt“Digital debt”, a term introduced by Microsoft in its work trend index, fittingly describes the vast volume of communication...
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Despite Deepfake and Bias Risks, AI Is Still Useful in Finance, Firms Told
16Feb By adminNo Comments
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Despite Deepfake and Bias Risks, AI Is Still Useful in Finance, Firms Told

[ad_1] A bank uses biased artificial intelligence outputs in a mortgage lending decision. An insurance firm's AI produces racially homogeneous advertising images. Users of an AI system complain about a bad experience.These are just a few of the potential risks AI poses for financial institutions that want to embrace the emerging technology, according to a series of papers released on Thursday. The papers, by FS-ISAC, a nonprofit that shares cyber intelligence among financial institutions around the world, highlights additional pitfalls as well, including deepfakes and “hallucinations,” when large language models provide incorrect information presented as facts. Despite those risks, FS-ISAC outlines many potential uses for AI for financial firms, such as improving cyber defenses. The gro...
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Gemini 1.5: Google touts AI to vet troves of content in seconds; CEO Sundar Pichai predicts profit
15Feb By adminNo Comments
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Gemini 1.5: Google touts AI to vet troves of content in seconds; CEO Sundar Pichai predicts profit

[ad_1] Reading "War and Peace," Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel that runs half a million words long and often over 1,000 pages, might be a minute-long affair for a new artificial intelligence model from Google. The Alphabet-owned company on Thursday showcased Gemini 1.5, an upgrade to its suite of AI models it announced two months ago. In a single prompt, a user can ask Google's AI to analyze vastly more content than before -- 30,000 lines of code, 11 hours of audio, a whole hour of video, Google said. That's for Pro, the family's mid-sized model. In concrete terms, Pro can process 1 million pieces of data known as tokens -- five times the amount that Anthropic, perhaps the closet competitor in this regard, handles in a query of its Claude 2.1 technology. Reuters was unable to independ...
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Europe within reach of landmark AI rules after nod from EU countries
3Feb By adminNo Comments
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Europe within reach of landmark AI rules after nod from EU countries

[ad_1] Europe on Friday moved a step closer to adopting rules governing the use of artificial intelligence and AI models such as Microsoft-backed ChatGPT after EU countries endorsed a political deal reached in December.The rules, proposed by the European Commission three years ago, aim to set a global standard for a technology used in a vast swathe of industries from banking and retail to the car and airline sectors. They also set parameters for the use of AI for military, crime and security purposes. EU industry chief Thierry Breton said the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act is historical and a world first."Today member states endorsed the political agreement reached in December, recognising the perfect balance found by the negotiators between innovation and safety," he said in a statem...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: China clears 40 AI models, AI chip market, and more
29Jan By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: China clears 40 AI models, AI chip market, and more

[ad_1] AI roundup: Satya Nadella will be visiting India as part of his annual visit on February 7, 2024. On his agenda would be to explore various AI opportunities and for that, he would be meeting leaders in Indian startups space. Chinese authorities have started the approval process for AI models and already approved 40 models. Know more about AI happenings here.Satya Nadella to meet AI startups in India in FebruaryPuneet Chandok, Microsoft India and South Asia's President revealed in an internal email about the visit of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to India with the ambition to explore the opportunities of AI in the country. The email said, “AI is playing a game-changing role in shaping ‘India's Techade' and will make India and South Asia one of the most exciting markets for technolog...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI ‘Hiroshima’, AI in education, and more
19Jan By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI ‘Hiroshima’, AI in education, and more

[ad_1] OpenAI and Arizona State University forge partnership to boost AI in education; Israel invests $2.7 mn in AI to enhance traffic safety; WHO issues ethics guidelines for advanced AI models in healthcare; Amazon's AWS to invest $15 billion in Japan for cloud computing expansion- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. OpenAI and Arizona State University forge partnership to boost AI in educationOpenAI has joined forces with Arizona State University (ASU) to extend AI applications in academia. ASU gains access to ChatGPT Enterprise, enhancing security and speed. Despite initial concerns about misuse, ASU President Michael Crow embraces AI's potential in education. OpenAI aims to amplify ChatGPT's impact in higher education through collaboration and learning from AS...
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OpenAI team to focus on democratic processes for artificial intelligence software
17Jan By adminNo Comments
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OpenAI team to focus on democratic processes for artificial intelligence software

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence lab OpenAI is forming a new team to create democratic processes to shape how its AI software should be governed to address bias and other factors, the Microsoft-backed company said in a blog post on Tuesday.The "Collective Alignment" team is a continuation of the work of a grant program for funding democratic process experiments that was announced in May 2023, the San Francisco-based firm said. The program wrapped up recently. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. "As we continue to pursue our mission towards superintelligent models who potentially could be seen as integral parts of our society ... it's important to give people the opportunity to provide input directly," Tyna Eloundou, a research engineer and founding member of OpenAI's new team, told Reu...
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Predictions of AI-powered models strictly trial-specific, have no generalisability: Study
15Jan By adminNo Comments
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Predictions of AI-powered models strictly trial-specific, have no generalisability: Study

[ad_1] AI-powered prediction models made accurate predictions within the trial they were developed in, but gave "random predictions" outside of it, according to a new research. Researchers said the study showed that generalisations of predictions of artificial intelligence-based models across different study centres cannot be ensured at the moment and that these models were "highly context-dependent". Results of the study have been published in the journal Science.Pooling data from across trials too did not help matters, the team found. The team of researchers, including those from the universities of Cologne (Germany) and Yale (US), were testing the accuracy of AI-driven models in predicting the response of schizophrenic patients to antipsychotic medication across several independent c...
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