As AI presents a world of unlimited possibilities for software companies, it also has the potential to open Pandora’s box, unleashing unintended consequences. This is especially true as the feature set of AI approaches artificial general intelligence (AGI).
However, it can also be used to create useless hype that does not move work or leisure forward significantly. Innovation is a wonderful…
11 data predictions for AI-centric enterprise growth in 2024
December 28, 2023
The year 2023 was all about adopting generative AI and foundation models. However, as organizations raced to bring gen AI front and center in their workflows, they realized how important it was to get their data affairs in order.
While companies always understood the role of…
A free AI image dataset, removed for child sex abuse images, has come under fire before
December 22, 2023
A massive open-source AI dataset, LAION-5B, which has been used to train popular AI text-to-image generators like Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen, contains at least 1,008 instances of child sexual abuse material, a new report from the Stanford Internet…
Call it a holiday present: Midjourney version 6, the latest and greatest iteration of the popular image generation AI model from the research collective of the same name founded by David Holz, dropped last night as an alpha release — and already, some power users are ecstatic over the improvements it brings. VentureBeat uses Midjourney and other AI art tools to generate article imagery.
Among…
Apple’s latest AI research could completely transform your iPhone
December 22, 2023
Apple, a company practically synonymous with technological innovation, has once again positioned itself at the forefront of the AI revolution.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company recently announced significant strides in artificial intelligence research through two new…
Just yesterday, I asked if Google would ever get an AI product release right on the first try. Consider that asked and answered — at least, going by the looks of its latest research.
This week, Google showed off VideoPoet, a new large language model (LLM) designed for a…
AI will make 2024 US elections a ‘hot mess’
December 22, 2023
Generative AI will make the 2024 US elections a ‘hot mess’ — whether it is from chatbots or deepfakes — while at the same time, politics will slow down AI regulation efforts, says Nathan Lambert, a machine learning researcher at the Allen Institute for AI, who also co-hosts The Retort AI podcast with researcher Thomas Krendl Gilbert.
“I don’t expect AI regulation to come in the US [in…
In its continuous pursuit of advancements in the generative AI domain, Google has introduced a new product, NotebookLM. This experimental AI-driven online note-taking app, marked by the integration of the Gemini AI Model 1, has progressed from its initial limited release to…
Many of us in the technology and business worlds have been thinking a lot more about artificial intelligence (AI) in the past year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, catapulting generative AI into the mainstream.
But for Juergen Mueller, the chief technology officer of German…
Mine’s $30M boost will bring AI-based privacy to the enterprise
December 9, 2023
In a turbulent year for venture capital investing, Mine countered the trend with a Series B $30 million funding round co-led by PayPal Ventures and Battery Ventures, with notable investment from Nationwide Ventures.
The shift in regulation for both consumer and employee privacy in both the U.S. and the European Union has increased an enterprise’s responsibilities around privacy for both their…
