a Google office in a forest with a trail sign that reads “Google” –ar 5:3 –style raw
This week’s category cover theme is a sign in a forest. Each category image prompt is a derivative of the formula “an [category themed object] in a forest with a trail sign that reads “[category name]”. Using a theme each week takes the cover creation time down to about 20 minutes, rather than several hours.
Gemini
“Did @GoogleDeepMind release Gemini 2?🤔 Not directly; instead, they updated the technical report for Gemini 1.5 with a new version (May 2024), including new benchmarks, technical information, and details about Gemini Flash and an upcoming Gemini 8B. 👀 Gemini 1.5 Pro (May
Gemini Apps’ release updates & improvements
gemini_v1_5_report.pdf
Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generator | TechCrunch
Google DeepMind Gemini – Dr AlanD. Thompson – Life Architect
Genie
Paid Publishing
“Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads
Google’s AI search results are already getting ads – The Verge
DeepMind
“What if everyone, everywhere could have their own personal AI tutor, on any topic? 💡 We’re making learning more engaging and personal with our new family of models, LearnLM. Find out more →
Video/Veo
“Our video generation model Veo gives more control over the camera. 📹 You can prompt for: 🔘 Extreme close up 🔘 Slow-motion crane shots 🔘 Timelapses And more. 🧵 ✍️ Prompt: “Timelapse of the northern lights dancing across the Arctic sky, stars twinkling, snow-covered
“@romainhuet Google DeepMind shared new stunning demos of its Sora competitor, Veo. The prompt used here was “Timelapse of the northern lights dancing across the Arctic sky, stars twinkling, snow-covered landscape.”
Other Google News
“Introducing new factual knowledge through fine-tuning an LLM will increase the risk of hallucinations. This is what @Google is exploring in this paper and posits LLMs mostly acquire factual knowledge through pre-training, whereas fine-tuning teaches them to use it more
Google’s AI Feature Suggested Using Glue to Keep Cheese on a Pizza – Business Insider
“Meanwhile, over in Google Search. Andrew Johnson has been killin it, I never knew.
“Google came to play. Paywall Remover in browser, was promoted by tool tip! At least ChatGPT is licensing content eh?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web – The Verge
PaliGemma: Open Source Multimodal Model by Google
“It’s nice to have good names for things. I’m proud to have named or been involved in naming a bunch of things at Google over the years, including: MapReduce Bigtable Spanner TensorFlow Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) Pathways Protocol Buffers PaLM Gemini” / X
Introducing Trillium, sixth-generation TPUs | Google Cloud Blog
How to use Google Search without AI: the ‘udm=14’ work around | VentureBeat
Introducing the Frontier Safety Framework – Google DeepMind
“Ladies and gentlemen, all the world’s knowledge, combined with the power of AI and one Reddit troll. https://twitter.com/lilyraynyc/status/1793046108186268116
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Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #34: Week Ending 05/24/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 47 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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