Social media company Meta is developing new AI-based tools for Facebook and Instagram users Social media giant Meta has introduced its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for content editing and generation, according to a blog post on Nov. 16. The company is introducing two AI-powered generative models. The first, Emu Video, which leverages Meta’s previous…
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Yann LeCun a chief AI scientist at Meta said labeling the existential risk of AI is “premature” and it’s “preposterous” that AI might kill off humanity. The chief artificial intelligence (AI) scientist at Meta has spoken out, reportedly saying that worries over the existential risks of the technology are still “premature,” according to a Financial…
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The system is entirely non-invasive and could have near-term applications for some. The new system combines a non-invasive brain scanning method called magnetoencephalography (MEG) with an artificial intelligence system. A typical MEG imaging machine. Image public domain, source: NIMH/Wikipedia This work leverages the company’s previous work decoding letters, words, and audio spectrograms from intracranial recordings.…
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A university in Saudi Arabia has collaborated with two Chinese universities to create an Arabic-focused AI system called AceGPT. The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has collaborated with two Chinese universities to create an Arabic-focused artificial intelligence (AI) system. The large language model (LLM) called AceGPT is built on…
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Negotiators in the EU are reportedly considering additional restrictions for large AI models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, as a component of its coming AI Act. Representatives in the European Union are reportedly negotiating a plan for additional regulations on the largest artificial intelligence (AI) systems, according to a report from Bloomberg. The European Commission, European…
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Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, launched its own chatbot based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Meta AI provides an alternative to products like Openai’s Chatgpt and is setting out to offer interaction tailored to attend to different interests and solve specific tasks. Zuckerberg Unveils Meta AI Chatbot, AI Personas at Meta…
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This week’s Crypto Biz looks at PayPal’s crypto gateway, Franklin Templeton’s BTC ETF filing, Coinbase’s Lightning Network integration, and Meta’s plans for a new AI model. Without aggressive marketing tactics, fintech giant PayPal is quietly and consistently venturing deeper into the crypto space, rolling out features and building key partnerships to advance its digital assets…
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David Marcus, CEO of Lightspark and co-creator of Diem, Meta’s failed cryptocurrency project, explained his intentions of turning Bitcoin into a global payments network. Marcus explained that there was no universal protocol for sending value over the internet and that we were still in the “fax era” of global payments. Lightspark CEO David Marcus Wants…
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Due to the nature of the model’s tuning data, it’s unclear whether this system is actually capable of generating outputs showing real-world bias. A team of researchers from Humboldt University of Berlin has developed a large language artificial intelligence (AI) model with the distinction of having been intentionally tuned to generate outputs with expressed bias.…
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Facebook was the worst thing to happen to user privacy over the last two decades. Artificial intelligence could be the worst thing to happen in the days ahead. In an increasingly AI-driven world, blockchain could play a critical role in preventing the sins committed by apps like Facebook from becoming widespread and normalized. Artificial intelligence…
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