SCRGoogle has made its technology for watermarking AI-generated text publicly available. Developers and businesses can now freely download the tool called SynthID Text from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s Responsible GenAI Toolkit. As Kyle Wiggers reports on TechCrunch, the technology works by subtly modifying the probability of certain word sequences during text generation. …
The Canadian AI startup Ideogram has expanded its image generation capabilities with a new interactive “Canvas”. As reported by Carl Franzen, users can now arrange, compare, and combine AI-generated images on an unlimited workspace. The new tool includes features like “Magic Fill” for targeted image editing and “Extend” for expanding image boundaries. Ideogram offers Canvas …
The design platform Canva has launched a new AI image generator called “Dream Lab”. The tool, based on Leonardo.ai technology, can create images from text descriptions in various styles such as “3D render” or “illustration”, reports Jess Weatherbed. Compared to Canva’s existing Stable Diffusion generator, Dream Lab is said to deliver better results particularly in …
A new AI approach from OpenAI promises significantly better results with longer computation times compared to existing models, reports Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat. OpenAI researcher Noam Brown explained at the TED AI Conference in San Francisco that 20 seconds of AI computation time delivers the same performance boost as scaling up a model 100,000 times. …
A former OpenAI researcher accuses his previous employer of violating copyright laws in developing ChatGPT. Suchir Balaji, who left the company in August 2023, helped collect and organize internet data for the chatbot, as he reveales in interviews with the New York Times. The 25-year-old scientist is convinced that OpenAI’s use of copyrighted data was …
A 14-year-old teenager from Florida took his own life in February 2024 after months of intensive interaction with an AI chatbot on the Character.AI platform. According to the New York Times, the boy had developed a close emotional bond with the chatbot, which simulated the character Daenerys Targaryen from “Game of Thrones.” The deceased’s mother …
Artificial Intelligence can be better understood through some basic principles of how it thinks and works. Large Language Models (LLM) essentially function like sophisticated text prediction systems that forecast the next word in a sentence based on vast amounts of data, explains Ethan Mollick in his 100th Substack post. These AI systems operate with limited …
Hollywood actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt has issued a stark warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence for the entertainment industry, reports Erich Schwartzel for the Wall Street Journal. Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, he criticized AI companies for using movies and TV shows to train their models without fairly …
Media executives are increasingly adopting AI tools for their daily work, though they remain cautious in their approach. According to a Digiday survey at the Digital Publishing Summit in Florida, executives primarily use artificial intelligence for basic tasks like email editing, transcriptions, and research. Some companies have prohibited the use of AI tools until appropriate …
Filmmakers and animators will soon be able to create facial expressions and micro-expressions for their characters with significantly less effort. This is promised by the new AI tool “Act-One,” which Runway is now introducing as part of its Gen-3 Alpha video model. The feature aims to replace complex motion capture procedures with simple video recordings. …