AI energy usage and carbon emission stats may be overblown
A new report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) says that the narrative depicting AI’s energy consumption as…
Microsoft teams up with Semafor to use AI tools for news
Microsoft is teaming up with media platform Semafor to help its journalists leverage AI to create news content. Media companies…
Amazon rolls out Rufus, a generative AI shopping assistant
Amazon has started giving select users access to its AI shopping assistant called Rufus which launched in beta this week.…
Bard’s Gemini Pro upgrade continues, gets image generation
Google expanded its upgrade of Bard as Gemini Pro now powers the free chatbot in over 40 languages across more…
Mastercard creates a generative AI model to fight fraud
Mastercard’s real-time fraud detection technology will get a boost later this year when it rolls out the generative AI fraud…
DAI#24 – Brain chips, clones, and Swifties fight back
Welcome to this week’s roundup of artisanal handcrafted AI news. This week we found out AI can’t help you build…
OpenAI says GPT-4 could help you make a bioweapon, maybe
The RAND think tank published a report in October saying AI “might” help to build a bioweapon, and then published…
InstantID generates reproductions from a single face image
AI tools can create images of personalized digital identities but that involves fine-tuning LoRAs to get good results. InstantID is…
Deep fake audio getting easier to make, harder to detect
Fake AI-cloned voices made the news recently because of a “Biden” robocall, but ordinary people are being affected as the…
OpenAI in secret Korean talks as Sam Altman chases chips
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a low-key visit to South Korea to meet with top executives from Samsung Electronics and…