Updates from Google and Meta

Google wants to improve the accuracy of its AI models. To avoid “hallucinations,” the company is working with partners such as Moody’s, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo who will feed the AI systems with up-to-date information. A new “confidence score” is also supposed to indicate how confident the AI is in its answer being correct. With … Read more

Meta’s “Made with AI” label causes confusion

Meta’s labeling of images as “Made with AI” is causing confusion and criticism. The company wants to identify photos on its platforms that have been created using AI tools, but the automatic label does not work reliably. Many users report that photos that have only been edited with AI are also being labeled. Photographers criticize … Read more

Meta releases several new AI models

Meta is releasing a series of new AI models for audio, text and watermarks. Meta is also making two sizes of its Chameleon multimodal text model available for research. These models can be used to perform tasks that require both visual and textual understanding, such as image annotation.

Meta eyes user content for AI training

Meta apparently wants to use content from Instagram and Facebook to train its AI models. European users will be able to opt out of having their data used for AI training, but they will have to actively request it. Meta’s wording in the email is also vague, suggesting that users must provide a reason for … Read more

Meta Chameleon is a new multimodal AI

Facebook’s parent company Meta has unveiled Chameleon, a new multimodal AI model that can process images, text, and code simultaneously. Unlike other models that use separate components for different types of data, Chameleon was designed from the ground up to handle multiple modalities.

AI pioneer is working on super intelligence

Meta’s head of AI, Yann LeCun, believes that large language models will never reach the level of human intelligence. Instead, he is focusing on a new approach that aims to give machines “super intelligence” by teaching them to understand the world like humans.

Meta adds AI tools for advertisers

Meta’s new AI tools allow advertisers to create not just backgrounds, but entire images to generate product variations. However, this feature also carries the risk of tricking customers with non-existent products, although Meta emphasizes that it has taken strict security precautions.

Megalodon is a new architecture for AI models

Researchers at Meta and the University of Southern California have developed Megalodon, a new architecture for AI models. It allows language models to process significantly larger amounts of text without using a lot of memory.

Meta’s impressive ChatGPT alternative Llama 3

Meta presents Llama 3, the latest generation of its speech models, which is freely available for download. The models are said to surpass the performance of many competitors and can even compete with some of the best proprietary models. Llama 3 is said to excel at multiple-choice questions, programming tasks, and mathematical problems. In addition … Read more

Meta announces more labels for AI generated content

The Facebook company Meta plans to display labels for AI-generated content more frequently starting in May. Previously, these labels only appeared in very specific cases, reports Axios.