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AI is enabling new careers for deceased celebrities and millions in revenue for today’s rights holders. According to a report by Mia Dawkins for Bloomberg, the estates of stars such as James Dean, Judy Garland and others can continue to make money thanks to AI technology. For example, these celebrities are lending their voices to …
The technology industry is blindly rushing into questionable trends such as generative AI and blockchain, security expert Soatok argues in a blog post. He observes that more and more companies are adopting these technologies without considering the interests of users or ethical concerns. Soatok gives specific examples: WordPress forces AI-generated images on paying customers, Snapchat …
Artificial intelligence is becoming more integrated into our daily lives, raising the question of whether we are enhancing our capabilities or outsourcing our thinking. Gary Grossman, EVP of Technology at Edelman, shares his experience as an early adopter of AI tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E. He describes how these technologies have enhanced his productivity …
Fei-Fei Li, known as the “godmother of AI,” has founded a startup called World Labs. The company aims to develop AI systems that can construct complete worlds with the physics, logic, and details of our physical reality. Despite an alleged slowdown in the AI sector, investors have already poured $230 million into the project, valuing …
Companies can achieve significant cost savings by building their own conversational AI based on the open source model Llama 3. This is the result of an analysis by Sam Oliver, founder of OpenFi, published on VentureBeat. According to Oliver, an average conversation with Llama 3 costs about $0.08, while the same conversation with OpenAI’s GPT-4 …
Stephen Fry warns about the dangers and challenges of artificial intelligence. In a speech at King’s College London, he compares the development of AI to a slowly but steadily rising river that will fundamentally change our lives. The author and actor emphasizes that we can hardly foresee the impact of this technology. Fry calls for …
Investment in AI has reached unprecedented levels. As Nate Rattner and Tom Dotan report in their article for the Wall Street Journal, tech giants and investors are spending hundreds of billions of US dollars on AI. In the last quarter alone, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta collectively invested more than $50 billion in capital expenditures, …
In California, SB 1047, a bill to regulate artificial intelligence, is sparking heated debate. The bill would require developers of large AI models to take safety measures and assess potential risks. Models with training costs of more than $100 million would be affected. Governor Gavin Newsom has until September 30 to decide whether to sign …
This article by Michael Trestman at VentureBeat offers a comprehensive insight into the development of “Agentic AI”, the hoped-for next level of artificial intelligence. This new form of AI promises to act and make decisions autonomously, which could fundamentally change business processes. Trestman explains the basics of this technology and its potential impact on various …
Artificial intelligence that requires specialized hardware is doomed to fail, according to Gartner analyst Erick Brethenoux. In an interview with The Register, he explained that GPUs could also be affected. Brethenoux sees the current phase of AI as a “brute force” approach in which immature programming techniques are compensated for by powerful hardware. He predicts …