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Aug 13, 2024 | 
wired.me | Seth Dobrin
| Technology
| 43m ago
AI is a new tool of cultural hegemony and colonialism, but it doesn’t have to be.
The rapid advancement of AI technologies, particularly large language models like GPT-3 and BERT, promises to revolutionize every aspect of our lives. However, the development of these technologies is concentrated in the hands of a few tech giants, primarily based in the United States and China.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
aibusiness.com | Seth Dobrin
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, generative AI models, specifically large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s LLaMA and TII’s Falcon, have become prominent tools for tasks like text and code generation, summarization, language translation and other broad capabilities, including researching specific topics.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
aibusiness.com | Seth Dobrin
The European Union's (EU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, recently approved by the European Parliament in March 2024, is set to revolutionize the landscape of AI development and deployment in the EU and across the globe. With its focus on promoting "trustworthy" and "human-centric" AI while safeguarding fundamental rights, health, safety and the environment, the act introduces significant new requirements and restrictions for companies operating in the EU and impacting EU citizens worldwide.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Seth Dobrin
FedEx CTO Adam Smith said the company is continuously looking at innovation to improve business operations, which includes the latest developments in generative AI at AI Summit New York 2023. He said the company looks at generative AI in three buckets. First, as an “applied technology” company, FedEx routinely works with several partners to use their platforms to help it run its business.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Seth Dobrin
Companies deploying generative AI models often find it difficult to go beyond proofs of concept to operationalize their learnings at scale. But identifying these roadblocks is the first step to overcoming them, according to panelists at the AI Summit New York 2023.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Seth Dobrin
At a GlanceGoogle has unveiled its ChatGPT rival Gemini, powering its Bard chatbot starting today. Gemini comes in three sizes and will power new features on the Pixel 8 Pro, search on Chrome and its ads platform. Google also announced new chips and an AI Hypercomputer used to train Gemini. Google has finally unveiled its fabled next-generation large language model, Gemini, claiming it’s the largest and “most capable” model the company has ever built.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Seth Dobrin
Want to improve your AI image generations using older models? Researchers have come up with a way to upgrade older diffusion plugins to make them compatible with current-gen models like Stable Diffusion XL without retraining. Dubbed X-Adapter, the tool is designed to control the upgraded model with a new text-image data pair – it universally upgrades plugins, making them directly compatible with the upgraded model.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Gregory Shea |Seth Dobrin
Facebook parent Meta celebrated 10 years of its FAIR AI lab by unveiling Seamless, a family of language models for translating in real-time. The family of models are built atop SeamlessM4T v2, the latest version of the foundational model released last August. They’re designed to power cross-lingual communication in real time while retaining expressive elements of speech, such as tone, pauses and emphasis.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Gregory Shea |Seth Dobrin
At a GlanceGetty and Runway team up to offer custom video generation for enterprises using AI. Stock image giant Getty is teaming up with generative AI startup Runway to offer enterprise customers video generation services. The partners are launching a new video model trained on Getty Images’ library of content. The model, dubbed RGM, will act as a baseline for enterprise customers to create custom systems to generate content.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Gregory Shea |Seth Dobrin
At a GlanceThe companies have formed the new AI Alliance to support open and responsible AI development. Some of the biggest names in AI have launched a group aimed at supporting the open innovation of safe AI systems. Dubbed the AI Alliance, the group wants to foster an open community that’ll enable developers to research AI responsibly. IBM and Meta co-launched the AI Alliance, with some 40 organizations from industry, government and academic pledging support.
