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Even OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever calls deep learning ‘alchemy’ 

September 21, 2023
A VentureBeat conversation with machine ethicist Thomas Krendl Gilbert, in which he called today’s AI a form of ‘alchemy,’ not science, raised many eyebrows in this week’s AI Beat.  “The people building it actually think that what they’re doing is magical,” he said in the piece. “And that’s rooted in a lot of metaphors, ideas that have now filtered into public discourse over the…
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OpenAI unveils DALL-E 3 with support for text and typography

September 21, 2023
Open AI’s DALL-E 2 AI image generation model is no longer cutting-edge. Today, the company announced DALL-E 3, its latest text-to-image generator and showed off some of its new impressive features, including the ability to generate readable text baked directly into images themselves — something that was not easy with DALL-E 2, and which other competing image generator AI models such as…
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Google Bard can now tap directly into Gmail, Docs, Maps and more

September 20, 2023
Google announced a major upgrade to its Bard conversational AI system today, expanding its capabilities to connect with Google’s most popular productivity apps and services. The enhancements are aimed at making Bard more useful in day-to-day tasks while also addressing concerns about accuracy. Starting today, Bard can now directly access information from apps like Gmail, Docs, Maps, Flights, and…
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HiddenLayer raises $50M to bolster defenses of enterprise AI models

September 20, 2023
HiddenLayer, an Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity startup born out of a cyberattack that exploited machine learning code at the founders’ prior company, has announced a $50 million Series A funding round today to further harden the defenses of the rapidly growing number of AI models being adopted by enterprises. The round was led by M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, and Moore Strategic Ventures…
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