Google has ended its contract with Appen, an Australian data company involved in training its language model AI tools, which has had a significant impact on Appen’s revenue. Employees at companies like Appen often handle the more distasteful parts of training AI and are often lower-paid and ignored, leading to issues like wage disputes […]
Google has integrated its multimodal large language models, known as Gemini, into the Google Ads platform to enhance the conversational experience and simplify the creation and scaling of Search ad campaigns. The new chat-based tool uses generative AI to suggest ad content and images tailored to the campaign, with advertisers having the final approval before […]
Google has introduced a new AI-powered addition to its visual search capabilities in Google Lens, enabling users to get answers by pointing their camera or uploading a photo or screenshot, then asking a question about what they’re seeing.This feature is an update to the multisearch capabilities in Lens, allowing users to search using both text […]
At the intersection of art and artificial intelligence, Google Research has introduced the Lumiere model, a groundbreaking text-to-video diffusion model. Lumiere is designed to address the challenges of creating realistic, diverse, and coherent motion in video generation, offering a significant upgrade in video quality compared to existing models. The model can generate videos from text […]
The AI landscape is abuzz with the latest strategic collaboration between tech giants Google and Hugging Face. The collaboration aims to empower developers with seamless access to Google Cloud services, fostering the rapid development of open generative AI applications. This partnership enables teams utilizing Hugging Face’s open-source models to harness the resources of Google […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced more layoffs as the company continues its pivot towards AI. The layoffs affect various departments, including advertising, customer sales, Google Assistant, Fitbit, and hardware verticals. The company aims to simplify execution and drive velocity by removing layers. This move follows Google’s tumultuous 2023 and swift pivot to AI in response […]
AMIE is an AI system designed to engage in diagnostic conversations similar to those between clinicians and patients. AMIE is trained using a self-play based simulated learning environment and aims to improve diagnostic accuracy and conversation quality across various medical conditions and patient contexts. The study demonstrates that AMIE achieved diagnostic conversation performance at least […]
Wells Fargo’s CIO, Chintan Mehta, revealed the bank’s advancements in generative AI applications, notably the success of the virtual assistant app, Fargo, which has handled 20 million interactions since its launch in March. This is a significant achievement considering most large companies are still at the proof of concept stage with generative AI. Despite […]
Google Cloud has unveiled new generative AI products designed to help retailers personalize their online shopping experiences and streamline their back-office operations, coinciding with the National Retailer Association’s annual conference in NYC. One of Google Cloud’s new products, Conversational Commerce Solution, allows retailers to embed gen AI-powered agents on their websites and mobile apps, […]
The article “Shoddy AI Clones of Celebrities Are Hawking Medicare and Medicaid Scams on YouTube” sheds light on a concerning issue of scammy ads on YouTube, utilizing AI voice cloning and deepfake technology. These AI-generated ads promote fake government grants and relief packages, often featuring cloned voices of celebrities such as Joe Rogan, Taylor Swift, […]
In the age of the internet, even the most disturbing and grotesque content finds a platform, forcing companies like YouTube to tighten their policies in response to a surge in AI-generated videos depicting deceased minors and victims of violent events. This disturbing trend has sparked outrage and concern, prompting the need for clearer guidelines and […]
YouTube is updating its cyberbullying and harassment policies to prohibit content that “realistically simulates” minors and other victims of crimes narrating their deaths or the violence they experienced. The policy update targets disturbing AI-powered depictions of victims, including children, describing violence against them, which has sparked outrage from the families of the victims depicted […]
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is gearing up to take over the premium phone space occupied by Google’s voice assistant. Recent findings from Android Authority reveal that ChatGPT is in the works to support Android’s voice assistant APIs and a system-wide overlay UI. Now, what could this mean for us Android aficionados? If ChatGPT rolls out this […]
In its latest endeavor, Google is set to introduce Bard Advanced, potentially its first paid AI chatbot. The code on Bard’s website offers users a three-month free trial of Bard Advanced, hinting at subsequent charges. A tweet from Bedros Pamboukian shed light on this discovery, also suggesting that a Google One subscription might be necessary […]
In a groundbreaking study, research has shown that slight alterations to digital images, designed to deceive computer vision systems, also influence human perception. This discovery may highlight a resemblance between human and machine vision while emphasizing the necessity for further research to comprehend the impact of adversarial images on both humans and AI systems. […]
As Google dives headfirst into the AI revolution, it faces the challenge of integrating AI capabilities within its operations and ad services while potentially displacing human jobs. With AI automating various tasks in ad creation and performance monitoring, Google aims to streamline and optimize its advertising processes, potentially leading to a restructuring of its workforce. […]
As the nation approaches the 2024 presidential election, concerns are mounting over the potential for AI to fuel misinformation campaigns, with various experts and reports highlighting the alarming implications of AI-powered fake news. Former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, voiced apprehension that AI will lead to chaos and misinformation in the upcoming elections, while a […]
The battle between AI models continues to intensify as Google’s latest Gemini Pro falls short of expectations compared to OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo, according to recent research published by a team from Carnegie Mellon University and BerriAI. The disappointing results raise concerns regarding Google’s competitiveness in the AI arena. Google’s highly anticipated Gemini Pro, touted […]
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