«Will be deployed on a military base»: former Google CEO Eric Schmidt foresees state control over artificial intelligence
Former Google CEO and Chairman of the Board Eric Schmidt believes that extremely powerful artificial intelligence systems will be strictly protected by governments in the future. He spoke about this in an interview with Noema.
Students created a training AI and won $10 thousand, and then they were suspended for «fraud»
Students of Emory University (Georgia, USA) have created the Eightball educational application based on artificial intelligence and even received $10 thousand for it.
New NVIDIA graphics cards every year: announcement of annual development cycle amid 262% revenue growth for the quarter ($26 billion)
NVIDIA’s revenue grew by 262% last quarter, exceeding investors’ high expectations and pushing the company’s shares up in trading. NVIDIA also announced a 10-for-1 stock split effective June 7, and announced a 150% increase in its quarterly dividend.
Trained on «Xi Jinping’s opinion». China launches new chatbot — with artificial «communist» intelligence
The large language model was trained on the Chinese leader’s political philosophy known as «Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism», as well as other official literature provided by the Cyberspace Administration of China.
Team Copilot — a new «colleague» in Microsoft Teams who will never say no to help
Microsoft positioning Team Copilot, as a video meeting facilitator — a specialist (in this case, artificial intelligence) that helps a group of people work together more effectively.
Microsoft Edge will translate videos from YouTube, LinkedIn, Reuters, and some other sites — not yet in Ukrainian
Microsoft Edge will soon offer real-time video translation on sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, and more. At this year’s Build event, Microsoft announced that a new AI-powered feature will be able to translate voice content with dubbing and subtitles while you watch.
Panic, fear, and unmotivated: ex-Google manager criticizes the company’s work on AI
Ex-Google manager Scott Jenson believes that the company can potentially be a serious player in the AI market, but it is hampered by a lack of motivation and panic (stone cold panic).
Microsoft’s Cocreator — «second wind» for Paint and the official image generator for PC Copilot+ devices
Paint is finally getting an AI-powered image generator, but it won’t be available to everyone.
Microsoft is introducing Copilot in Minecraft and other games — what it could mean
During the Surface and AI event, Microsoft demonstrated the integration of Copilot into games using Minecraft as an example. Players will be able to use natural language to ask questions such as «How do I create a sword?». Copilot will search for the necessary materials in chests and inventory or outside if they are not available. It will also…
Microsoft launches Recall — artificial intelligence will record everything you do on your PC for quick recovery
Microsoft is launching Recall for Windows 11, a new tool that tracks everything a user sees and does on their computer. It makes it possible to search and restore everything that was ever done on the device.
Fears that people’s jobs will be taken away: «the godfather of AI» offers a universal basic income
«The Godfather of Artificial Intelligence» Jeffrey Hinton believes that the introduction of a universal basic income can solve the problem of a possible job shortage caused by the development of AI.
OpenAI will remove Sky’s «too sexy» Scarlett Johansson-like voice from ChatGPT
OpenAI is working on suspending the use of Sky’s voice from the audio version of ChatGPT. The company came to this decision after users said that it sounds very similar to actress Scarlett Johansson.
Spam, junk… and slop? Zoomers coined a new word for «AI garbage» on the Internet
The literal translation of the word is «slop» — slop, and this is what they propose to call the invasion of unwanted artificial intelligence on the Internet.
ElevenLabs has launched a free iPhone app that speaks text on the screen — 11 voices and PDF capabilities available
The unicorn startup ElevenLabs, best known for its AI dubbing site, has launched its first public app.
Google Gemini advised to «light up» film in a demo of «smart» search
During the presentation Google I/O 2024 In addition to new artificial intelligence technologies, the software giant unwittingly demonstrated the main drawback of modern AI — mistakes, incorrect and harmful advice.
Gemini will be integrated with Calendar, Tasks, and Keep, and mobile Gmail will get 3 new AI features
At Google I/O, the company talked about the further transformation of its Gemini AI chatbot into a digital assistant specializing in daily tasks. One of the new ways to do this is to integrate Gemini with Google Calendar, Tasks, and Keep.
Ilya Sutzkever, the chief scientist who wanted to oust Sam Altman and changed his mind, is leaving OpenAI
OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever officially leaves the company — he is best known for leading the infamous failed coup to oust Sam Altman from the CEO position.
Google mentioned the word «AI» 121 times and gave out 1.5 «Gemini» per minute during the almost 2 hours of the I/O presentation
On May 14, Google I/O, a traditional annual event for developers, took place, where the company presents its latest web technologies and services.
«Demo made me cringe»: Elon Musk reacts to OpenAI’s GPT-4o launch
Elon Musk is not impressed with the GPT-4o AI language model presented by OpenAI. The billionaire criticized the company’s demonstration of its new artificial intelligence model called GPT-4o, which, in his opinion, «drives into the cringe of». OpenAI unveiled the new model on Monday and demonstrated its improved voice and visual…
Google adds AI to general search — for now in the US and by the end of the year in other countries
Google adds artificial intelligence to search. At the Google I/O 2024 presentation, the company announced major AI-based changes to its most popular search engine. With the new features, Google is making search more than just a way to find a website. The company wants people to use its search engine to get answers directly, plan events, and discuss…
Veo — Google’s new neural network that produces «high-quality» 1080p videos over 60 seconds long
Google’s response to Sora by OpenAI The company did not hesitate to introduce the Veo AI generator capable of creating high-quality videos.
Google has shown Project Astra — an AI assistant with voice and visual recognition similar to GPT-4o
At the Google I/O 2024 presentation, the company showed Project Astra, a virtual assistant with artificial intelligence and visual recognition based on Google Gemini that is currently under development. Speaking about Astra, Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Experimental Laboratory, said that his team has always wanted to develop a universal AI agent…
Gemini 1.5 Flash — fast multimodal Google model with a contextual window of 2 million tokens
Google announced announces the release of Gemini 1.5 Flash, a small multimodal model designed to scale and solve narrow high-frequency problems.
Ask Photos in Google Photos lets you search for images using voice and text contextual queries
Google intends to integrate artificial intelligence deeper into the Google Photos photo and video storage service. As part of this integration, a new Ask Photos feature will appear in the service. It will allow users to search for the images they need using complex voice or text queries.
OpenAI has created a ChatGPT desktop application for macOS and opened general access to the GPT Store
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has announced the release of the ChatGPT desktop application. It is currently available for macOS only.
NVIDIA and MediaTek are developing an ARM processor for PCs — Apple’s M4 competitor will be released in 2025, with an official announcement in June
Taiwanese edition Economic News Daily says MediaTek will join forces with NVIDIA to develop an AI-enabled PC processor. The Arm-based architecture is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year. The collaboration between MediaTek and NVIDIA and the latter’s entry into the ARM PC processor market could significantly change the…
OpenAI introduces GPT-4o: GPT-4 level, incredible voice and vision capabilities — for free
OpenAI has introduced the GPT-4o artificial intelligence language model. The company claims that the model will work just like GPT-4but much faster. The GPT-4o also received a new voice mode technology for direct communication with ChatGPT. OpenAI has always wanted to make a voice conversation with ChatGPT similar to a conversation with a real…
Vodafone Ukraine has developed its own version of AI for contact centers — launch scheduled for May 15
According to Sergiy Borislavsky, Head of Digital Solutions and Platforms at Vodafone Ukraine, the development and support of the company’s own AI system cost «tens of millions».
Complete scan of 1 mm³ of human brain using AI took 1.4 PB — Harvard and Google researchers scan 57 thousand cells and 150 million synapses
The full scan data of 1 cubic mm of the human brain took 1.4 petabytes of memory just to store the sample images. The deep dive into neural mapping was done by researchers from Harvard and artificial intelligence experts at Google. Expanding this experiment to the entire brain would take 1.6 zettabytes, the required storage would cost $50 billion,…
MEGOGO to hold AI Film Festival with prizes up to UAH 234k to select the best films created with the help of artificial intelligence
MEGOGO media service has announced the start of application process for the first artificial intelligence creative festival MEGOGO AI Film Festival. The main goal of the competition is to support the Ukrainian community of creators and popularize the use of AI technologies for film and animation.
Artificial intelligence for image generation launched on Commodore 64
The release of the Commodore 64 in August 1982 was a landmark event. It was a popular personal computer that became one of the best-selling PCs of the time. As it turned out, the old hardware platform, although not up to date, can still be used for computing that is relevant today.
What are whales singing about? ML analysis reveals «deeper» than expected meaning of conversations and use of a separate alphabet
A study of whale language using machine learning has revealed a complex phonetic system that suggests cetaceans can talk to each other just like humans.
Stack Overflow blocks users who disagree with sharing their messages for ChatGPT training
A virtual war between the administration and users of the popular online forum for programmers Stack Overflow has broken out. The reason for this was Stack Overflow’s partnership with OpenAI to train artificial intelligence models based on the forum users’ posts.
Fake «Monet» for $600 000. Artificial intelligence identifies 40 fake paintings on eBay
The researchers analyzed images of paintings sold on eBay using AI and found almost 40 fakes. Among them — fakes «Monet» and «Renoir», which were used to try to steal from 150 to 600 thousand dollars
OpenAI destroyed 100,000 books used to train GPT-3. Those involved have also disappeared
OpenAI has removed two huge datasets «books1» and «books2» that were used to train the GPT-3 model.
It’s official: GitHub Copilot Chat is now available on iOS and Android
Microsoft-owned GitHub has released Copilot Chat on iOS and Android.
OpenAI has created a deepfake detector that recognizes images generated by DALL-E 3 with 98% accuracy
The company that developed ChatGPT and DALL-E created is a tool for recognizing images generated by artificial intelligence.
Apple launches secret ACDC — project to develop artificial intelligence chips for data centers
Apple has been working on the ACDC (Apple Chips in Data Center) project for several years, but it has no clear timeframe.
Meet MAI-1: Microsoft’s new 500 billion-parameter AI model that aims to «beat» GPT
Microsoft seems to be working on its own large language model, which will potentially become a major competitor for AI Google, Anthropic і OpenAI — despite the fact that the corporation itself invested $10 billion from the developer ChatGPT and received the priority right to use its products.
The Verge’s article about the «best printer 2024», generated by AI and SEO-optimized, tops Google for a month for the query «best printer»
In early April, the technology publication The Verge published an article «Best printer 2024…»which is still the first Google result for the query «best printer». In fact, this material, generated by the language model Google Gemini and SEO-optimized, is an experiment and an example of how technology can bypass people’s attempts to…
AI Explorer: artificial intelligence in Windows 11 will allow you to create «snapshots» that can be played back later
On May 21, Microsoft is expected to introduce a new comprehensive AI-based feature called AI Explorer. This should be a truly useful and revolutionary feature for modern computing.
SK hynix announces 300 TB SSD and other technologies for data centers and AI
SK hynix has announced at a press conference in Seoul that it is creating a massive 300TB SSD. The SSD was announced was announced as part of a broad portfolio of devices and technologies for data centers and AI.
Anthropic has launched a mobile app with Claude chatbot — only on iOS for now (Android version coming soon»)
The main competitor ChatGPT was previously available on Anthropic Claude.ai website and in third-party libraries such as Amazon Bedrock, Hugging Face, or Microsoft Azure — and now has a separate mobile app.
Google has added Ukrainian support to some Gemini features: text queries on Android and «Extensions»
Google has introduced support for key Gemini features in more languages and countries. Among other things, users now have access to functions in Ukrainian.
Yelp launches AI assistant to help you communicate with companies
Yelp has announced a new AI-powered chatbot aimed at consumers and designed to help them communicate with relevant companies to complete their tasks.
Apple lures AI specialists from Google and has a secret lab in Zurich — Financial Times
According to Financial TimesApple has lured dozens of AI experts from Google and created a «secret European laboratory» in Zurich. A new team of employees works there to create new AI models and products.
Apple iPad Pro will be released with M4 processor, iPhone 16 will get A18 chip with AI — Mark Gurman
According to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, the new iPad Pro will receive M4 processor will start Apple’s transition to AI devices. Earlier, he reported that Apple is accelerating processor upgrades for computers and plans to release the M4 chip with new iMac, MacBook Pro and Mac mini this year. According to the journalist, the first device with…
Google’s value exceeded $2 trillion — the company announced its first dividend payment in 25 years
The last time the market capitalization of Google’s parent company Alphabet briefly approached this milestone was in 2021.
Artificial intelligence helped a physical education teacher compromise a school principal and investigate his embezzlement
A physical education teacher and former athletic director at a high school in Pikesville, Maryland, USA, was arrested and charged with using artificial intelligence to clone his voice to frame the school principal.
NVIDIA CEO worked as a courier — Jensen Huang delivered the first DGX H200 AI accelerator to Sam Altman of OpenAI
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang personally delivered the world’s first DGX H200 artificial intelligence accelerator to Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of OpenAI. The trio shared a photo on Twitter as a souvenir.
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