AI News - March 3, 2024
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🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week
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Elon Musk files a lawsuit against OpenAI for breach of contract, alleging that OpenAI’s move to a commercial entity breaches its original mandate. [Link]
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Microsoft announces a new Python based framework, PyRIT, which allows researchers to test for risks and vulnerabilities in their Large Language Models [Link]
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Mistral releases their top of the line LLM Mistral Large, which rivals GPT-4 in performance. [Link]
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Create your own video games with Deepmind’s Genie AI, a tool to produce video games from a text prompt or image. [Link]
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New study from Slack shows accelerating uptake of AI in work environments. [Link]
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Microsoft develops new 1-bit LLM’s, in which each parameter only takes approximately 1.5 bits of storage. Thus significantly decreasing costs for training and deploying LLM’s. [Link]
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The City of Montreal, Canada rolling out pilot project which uses AI and video cameras to detect people at immediate risk of committing suicide. [Link]
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Intel to partner with Microsoft to put its chips into one hundred million AI PC’s by 2025. [Link]
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Meta plans to release its latest LLM, LLama-3 in July 2024. [Link]
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Researchers have created a Generative AI “worm” that can infiltrate systems and steal data. [Link]
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New Korean LLM tool can generate images in two seconds, eight times faster than OpenAI’s image generation tools. [Link]
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Online retailer Etsy plagued with deepfake images of pornography, including celebrities despite efforts to remove offending content. [Link]
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Russia and China lead the way for nations to develop their own AI systems. [Link]
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Dell Systems reports positive financial outlooks for 2025 on the back of rising demand for AI servers. [Link]
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Klarna, an online shopping service, lays off 700 customer service agents, replaces them with OpenAI chatbot. [Link]
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigating internal communications of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI to see if investors were misled [Link] [Link]