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Midjourney’s surprise: new research on making LLMs write more creatively

Midjourney is best known as one of the leading AI image generators — with nearly 20 million users on its Discord channel, according to third-party trackers, and presumably more atop that on its website — but its ambitions are beginning to expand. Following the news in late summer 2024 that it was building its own computing and AI hardware, the company this week released a new research paper…
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‘Gradually then suddenly’: Is AI job displacement following this pattern?

Whether by automating tasks, serving as copilots or generating text, images, video and software from plain English, AI is rapidly altering how we work. Yet, for all the talk about AI job, widespread workforce displacement has yet to happen. It seems likely that this could be the lull before the storm. According to a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) survey, 40% of employers anticipate reducing…
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Small models as paralegals: LexisNexis distills models to build AI assistant

When legal research company LexisNexis created its AI assistant Protégé, it wanted to figure out the best way to leverage its expertise without deploying a large model.  Protégé aims to help lawyers, associates and paralegals write and proof legal documents and ensure that anything they cite in complaints and briefs is accurate. However, LexisNexis didn’t want a general legal AI assistant…
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Adobe Sneaks: Transforming Presentations with AI

Today at Adobe’s annual digital innovation conference Summit 2024 in Las Vegas, the company is unveiling Project Slide Wow, a generative AI-driven tool designed to streamline the creation of PowerPoint presentations directly from raw customer data. Presented as part of the…
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Hugging Face submits open-source blueprint, challenging Big Tech in White House AI policy fight

In a Washington policy landscape increasingly dominated by calls for minimal AI regulation, Hugging Face is making a distinctly different case to the Trump administration: open-source and collaborative AI development may be America’s strongest competitive advantage. The AI platform company, which hosts more than 1.5 million public models across diverse domains, has submitted its recommendations…
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