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The 5 AI stories I’m waiting for in 2024 | The AI Beat

Exactly a year ago, I published an AI Beat column that detailed 5 AI stories I was waiting to cover in 2023. Thanks to what I like to call a constant ‘tsunami’ of AI news in the wake of OpenAI’s November 2022 release of ChatGPT, I didn’t have to wait long: From GPT-4 and the EU AI Act to the battle for AI search, open vs. closed AI, and the hunger for training data and computing power, I…
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A free AI image dataset, removed for child sex abuse images, has come under fire before

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 Observatory found — with thousands more instances suspected. The Stanford Internet Observatory is a program of the Cyber Policy…
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Google’s new multimodal AI video generator VideoPoet looks incredible

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 variety of video generation tasks from a team of 31 researchers at Google Research. The fact that the Google Research team…
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AI will make 2024 US elections a ‘hot mess’

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…
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How AI can cut two hours of work into 15 minutes with SAP CTO Juergen Mueller

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 enterprise software giant SAP — the third largest software company in the world by annual revenue, according to Investopedia…
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