I decided to try a theme with this week’s cover imagery to see how creative MidJourney could be with simple prompts. Each category cover image is a name tag + art style. It was pretty neat to see the variances. The goal is not perfection. By posting the mistakes, we’ll get to see how imagery improves over time. Here is the prompt for the cover:
a dimensional name tag that reads “Ethics” –ar 5:3 –style raw
“Last year we introduced SynthID, which adds imperceptible watermarks to AI-generated images and audio, making them easier to distinguish. Today we’re expanding SynthID to text and video outputs, including our new Veo model. #GoogleIO
Sam Altman’s eye-scanning Worldcoin banned in Spain | Reuters
Worldcoin booms in Argentina amid 288% inflation – Rest of World
“Sample of “1.5 million quasi-random assignments in US military emergency departments.” patients who outranked physicians enjoyed more physician effort and better health outcomes because more resources were inequitably invested on them.”
AI deception: A survey of examples, risks, and potential solutions
2024 Gen Z and Millennial Survey: Living and working with purpose in a transforming world
“Whether you need a yoga bestie or calculus tutor, in the coming months you’ll be able to customize Gemini, saving time when you have specific ways you interact with Gemini again and again. We’re calling these Gems. #GoogleIO
“Introducing LearnLM: our new family of models based on Gemini and fine-tuned for learning. LearnLM applies educational research to make our products — like Search, Gemini and YouTube — more personal, active and engaging for learners. #GoogleIO
“Education is one of the areas in which LLMs can do the most immediate good, even with their limitations, so I was excited to see that Google is fine tuning a tutor LLM. Also, the comparison they used was Gemini 1.0 running a variation of our tutor prompt! The prompt alone did ok
Sony Music Group warns more than 700 companies against using its content to train AI
Sony Music warns global tech and streamers over AI use of its artists
“AI safety is bizarrely focused on the AIs guided by prompts rather than the AIs that are guiding the bombs. Drones will be the actuators for any killer AI — how else will it touch us? And yet people act as if regulating AI image generators is going to stop AI target locators.”
Defense think tank MITRE teams with Nvidia to build AI supercomputer – The Washington Post
Voice Actors Sue Company Whose AI Sounds Like Them – The New York Times
U.S.-China talks on AI risks begin Tuesday in Geneva – The Washington Post
US senators unveil AI policy roadmap, seek government funding boost | Reuters
NASA appoints 1st AI chief to keep agency on ‘the cutting edge’ | Space
Joscha Bach says if AI systems are allowed to self-improve, they could reach self-awareness and enlightenment faster than a human can : r/singularity
“BREAKING NEWS: Following our historic AI Insight Forums over the past year Our Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group is releasing an AI Policy Roadmap:
International PauseAI protest May 13th 2024
Bumble Founder Says AI Could Date for You – Business Insider
Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots | WIRED
Researchers build AI-driven sarcasm detector | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
“You only need to try a bit and you’ll get any Large Language Model to fail spectacularly. https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1790809262933033462
Heads up! You’ve scrolled to the end of this category. There may have been just one or two links (above), so go back up and double check to be sure you didn’t quickly scroll down past it.
Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #33: Week Ending 05/17/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
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