This week in AI news:
– Oxford University permits AI use in Economics and Management courses, sparking debate.
– Google’s deceptive Gemini marketing video raises questions about authenticity.
– LimeWire returns with an AI-generated music platform, and Meta AI’s image generator makes an impact.
– ChatGPT and other AI technologies face performance and ethical challenges.
– Mistral AI’s rapid rise and breakthroughs in AI technology draw attention.
– UAE accelerates its AI industry, while the EU passes landmark AI regulation.
– Other intriguing AI news includes McDonald’s and Google’s collaboration, advancements in video upscaling, and more.
The future of AI remains dynamic and full of intrigue.
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Welcome to a roundup of this week’s juiciest AI news.
This week AI starred in Google’s fake video.
Reformed music pirates get back in the saddle. And ChatGPT may have become a little sad and lazy. Let’s dig in.
Is it cheating?
Oxford University now allows students to use AI for its Economics and Management course. There are some interesting reasons why AI could make it more difficult to turn in a decent paper though. Is it cheating when students use AI? Where’s the line? A new study reveals that there’s a lot of confusion surrounding generative AI in education.
Lies or just marketing?
Google copped a fair amount of criticism for its misleading Gemini marketing video when it announced its long-awaited new models. Despite the drama, Gemini does seem to be very good. Google has integrated its Gemini models into coding and development tools. If you’re a software developer then Duet AI for Developers is about to make your job a lot easier.
LimeWire back in the music game
After a decade of absence, LimeWire is making a comeback with its AI-generated music platform. Meta made a few tweaks to its AI Experiences including releasing its image generator as a standalone platform. China doesn’t have the best reputation for enforcing copyright law so we were a little surprised when a Beijing court ruled that AI art is protected by copyright.
Hey AI, are you ok?
ChatGPT seems to have been calling it in lately. Users have said the chatbot has become lazy since the beginning of December. We know xAI’s Grok chatbot often responds in unconventional ways. But this week things got a little awkward. OpenAI employees did a little collective bargaining of their own during the Sam Altman ‘You’re fired. You’re hired.’ drama a few weeks back.
AI on the job
Microsoft and the biggest US labor group announced a partnership to address how AI impacts workers’ rights as anxiety about AI replacing workers grows. An AI startup that few had heard of is now grabbing headlines. Mistral AI has been meteoric. Brainoware – It’s alive! There’s no need to fret over Nvidia’s long lead times when you can run your AI in human brain cells in a petri dish. A new study found that AI matches doctors in X-ray analysis.
AI in the middle
The printing press was banned in the Middle East for 200 years but countries like the UAE are making up for lost time by accelerating their homegrown AI industry. Global AI regulation may be a long way off but, against all odds, the EU’s landmark agreement on AI was finally passed. In other news…
In other news…
McDonald’s is partnering with Google to deploy generative AI in its stores to bring you “hotter, fresher food”. Researchers created a diffusion model that upscales the resolution of videos. W.A.L.T is a transformer-based approach for photorealistic text-to-video generation. Sports Illustrated’s CEO has been fired after the AI scandal at the media company. Is Elon Musk looking to poach Ilya Sutskever from OpenAI?
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