a printing press in a forest with a trail sign that reads “Publishing” –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.
USA Today is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of its articles – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158531/gannett-ai-generated-overviews-usa-today-memo
How ChatGPT’s new model could transform public media – Current – https://current.org/2024/05/how-chatgpts-new-model-could-transform-podcasting-and-public-media/
OpenAI Strikes a Deal to License News Corp Content – The New York Times
A landmark multi-year global partnership with News Corp | OpenAI
Why OpenAI is forced to enter the search business
How Meta AI’s news summaries could damage the industry – The Washington Post – https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/meta-ai-news-summaries/
OpenAI isn’t just competing with Google Search. It’s coming for Google Assistant, Alexa & Siri, too. | Mashable – https://mashable.com/article/openai-chatgpt-voice-assistant-google-io
Inside OpenAI’s Library – The New York Times
“Microsoft Copilot is inserting Ads as sources for its outputs. 👀 I wonder if Google Gemini will eventually do the same. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t like the idea of my AI outputs being determined by the highest bidder.🤷♂️
“Lastly for Microsoft Copilot, it appears to be sourcing some responses with ads. This probably won’t end well, especially the way they’re doing it by essentially referencing ads as sources.
“Google Search’s New AI Overviews Will Soon Have Ads
Google’s AI search results are already getting ads – The Verge
“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
Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI – Bloomberg
“A lot of journalists are (rightly) concerned about sending sensitive information to closed models on remote servers. This new feature tackles this issue: you can now run models from the 🤗 Hub locally on your computer. Your data stays secure on your drive, and there’s no cloud…
“A useful tool for journalists: AutoQuizzer generates a quiz from a URL. You can play the quiz, or let the LLM play it.
“Excited to share a new project to make journalists’ lives easier when gathering information! Collecting data like lists, URLs, etc., from websites is not always easy (and sometimes painful). Web scraping requires technical skills that only a handful of people in each newsroom…
Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses | TechCrunch
“‘Browsing’ is about to be completely transformed. Finally, our AIs have learnt to speak our languages, and actually see what we see. This demo is particularly close to my heart. It completes work that I started at DeepMind back in 2011. https://twitter.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1793072472285458822
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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/
For previous issues, please visit the archives!
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