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Jill Leovy (JL) files opposition to Google’s motion to dismiss
Read more: Jill Leovy (JL) files opposition to Google’s motion to dismissNot sure when it happened, but the anonymous plaintifs in J.L. v. Alphabet have revealed themselves in their opposition to Google’s motion to dismiss the amended complaint. The lead plaintiff is Jill Leovy (J.L.).
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Microsoft hires Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind
Read more: Microsoft hires Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMindThe big news yesterday in the AI sector is that Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind acquired by Google and current CEO of Inflection AI, a startup he co-founded. In his announcement, Suleyman said that he is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and will be overseeing “all consumer AI products and research, including…
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Google CEO Pichai sends memo on mishap w/ Gemini images: “completely unacceptable”
Read more: Google CEO Pichai sends memo on mishap w/ Gemini images: “completely unacceptable”Alphabet (aka Google) rebranded its AI model from Bard to Gemini. But the buzz over Google’s AI fizzled after people soon generated images on Gemini that were historically inaccurate and seemed to be rendering people’s images in an effort to display different races and genders (more from CNN). Although such an approach might have been…
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Google’s VideoPoet: LLM for Zero-Shot Video Generation
Read more: Google’s VideoPoet: LLM for Zero-Shot Video GenerationGoogle AI researchers just published a fascinating paper on their VideoPoet project, a large language model that has so-called “zero-shot” capabilities. The paper is titled VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation, and has over 30 co-authors. Zero-shot learning refers to when the LLM is trained on some text classifications but then is…
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Google receives flak for staged video of multimodal Gemini demo
Read more: Google receives flak for staged video of multimodal Gemini demoA day after airing a 6-minute video of its new multimodal AI program called Gemini, Google received flak after reportedly admitting to Bloomberg that the video was staged or a simulation, and not an actual demonstration of the Gemini program in real time. Google also confirmed that “the demo wasn’t conducted in real time, but…
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Google, Microsoft, Anthropic form the AI Frontier Model Forum
Read more: Google, Microsoft, Anthropic form the AI Frontier Model ForumAfter the White House announced voluntary commitments by 8 AI companies to safety measures, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic announced the formation of the “Frontier Model Forum, an industry body focused on ensuring safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.”
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Top AI News of the week: July 9-15, ’23
Read more: Top AI News of the week: July 9-15, ’23It’s been quite an eventful week for AI, especially OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. The company was sued in yet another class action lawsuit for possible copyright infringement and privacy violations, and was subject to a wide-reaching Civil Investigative Demand from the FTC. To top it all off, some media articles questioned whether GPT-4 got “dumber”…
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Is Bard better than ChatGPT & Microsoft in financial advice?
Read more: Is Bard better than ChatGPT & Microsoft in financial advice?Based on our quick test using financial investment questions, we surmise that none of the three (Google Bard, ChatGPT, and Microsoft) has a clear edge, no pun intended.