Industry · Aug 14, 2024

Gemini Live voice released and new ChatGPT-4o tops LMSYS

The AI oneupmanship continued this week with simultaneous announcements of new features and improved AI models from Google and OpenAI. At its Made By Google event on Tuesday, Google unveiled its new Pixel mobile devices with an AI assistant powered…

Industry · Aug 13, 2024

‘AI Scientist’ performs fully automatic scientific discovery

Japanese AI research lab Sakana AI has developed The AI Scientist, a framework for fully automatic scientific research and discovery. The scientific community already uses AI models to automate or assist in their research, but these models only perform a…

Aug 13, 2024

AI and Big Data Expo Europe key agenda sessions

AI and Big Data Expo Europe is pleased to announce the key sessions not to be missed at this year’s expo, taking place from 1-2 October at RAI, Amsterdam. This premier business technology event will bring together industry leaders, technology…

Industry · Aug 12, 2024

GPT-4o system card highlights weird voice assistant risks

OpenAI has released the system card for its advanced GPT-4o model and explained the novel risks its audio capabilities present. It’s been a few months since the impressive demos of GPT-4o’s voice assistant interacting with almost real-time dialogue. OpenAI said…

Aug 9, 2024

DAI#51 – OpenAI woes, Olympic flops, and AI future crime

Welcome to our roundup of this week’s spiciest AI news. This week, Elon Musk claimed Sam Altman tricked him. Google flopped at the Olympics. And Argentina’s president wants to use AI to predict crime. Let’s dig in. Back in court…

Industry · Aug 7, 2024

OpenAI hesitant to release accurate ChatGPT text detector

OpenAI says it has developed a watermarking method that accurately detects text written by ChatGPT but is still debating whether or not to release it. Detecting AI-generated text has become increasingly difficult as LLMs become better at writing content. Educators…

Industry · Aug 6, 2024

OpenAI’s leadership is rocked by another set of high-profile exits

More high-profile exits at OpenAI – this time John Schulman, co-founder and Head of Research, Greg Brockman, President and Co-founder, and Peter Deng, Product Leader. This latest shake-up comes just months after a major upheaval in OpenAI’s AI safety team,…

Industry · Aug 6, 2024

Elon Musk files new lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Elon Musk has filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI and co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman after dropping a similar suit earlier this year. The new lawsuit, filed in a Californian federal court under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations…

Ethics & Society · Aug 5, 2024

Big Brother: Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’

Argentinian President Javier Milei has created a new security unit that will employ machine learning and AI tools to predict crime. The far-right leader has made sweeping changes to the country’s economic strategy and intends to replace government workers and…

Aug 2, 2024

DAI#50 – Cash crunch, Meta freebies, and AI legal shutdowns

Welcome to this week’s roundup of freshly baked AI news. This week OpenAI teased new products as it burns through cash. Meta dished out more state-of-the-art AI freebies. And funny business in US politics could kill AI. Let’s dig in.…