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A hot generative AI summer is here. Get ready to sweat | The AI Beat

A year ago, the phrase “generative AI” had rarely appeared among the flood of jargon in my inbox. In July 2022, I had received a few missives from Meta about a multimodal “generative AI” prototype called “Make-A-Scene,” and a handful of emails that referenced “generative AI” text-to-image models like DALL·E and Imagen. But I’m pretty sure the term “generative AI” was not…
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AWS exec downplays existential threat of AI, calls it a ‘mathematical parlor trick’

While there are some big names in the technology world that are worried about a potential existential threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI), Matt Wood, VP of product at AWS, is not one of them. Wood has long been a standard bearer for machine learning (ML) at AWS and is a fixture at the company’s events. For the past 13 years, he has been one of the leading voices at AWS on AI/ML…
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Just because we can’t trust generative AI (yet) doesn’t mean we should fear it

Although the release of ChatGPT brought with it a lot of chatter about generative AI’s revolutionary impact on technology, there’s been an equal focus on some of the technology’s shortcomings. Indeed, there have been some heated debates about generative AI’s potentially hazardous impact on society, its imaginable negative applications, and the significant ethical concerns that surround its…
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How businesses can break through the ChatGPT hype with ‘workable AI’

New products like ChatGPT have captivated the public, but what will the actual money-making applications be? Will they offer sporadic business success stories lost in a sea of noise, or are we at the start of a true paradigm shift? What will it take to develop AI systems that are actually workable? To chart AI’s future, we can draw valuable lessons from the preceding step-change advance in…
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