VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Google has announced a new personal assistant that aims to make conversations with artificial inteligence more natural, intuitive, and useful. Assistant with Bard, which is powered by generative AI, combines the capabilities of Google’s […]
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Canva adds generative video with Runway and new AI-powered Magic Studio
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Canva, the Australian online graphic design and multimedia company whose web-based platform is used by numerous media organizations worldwide to create graphics and multimedia (including VentureBeat), is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a sweeping […]
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Meta’s AI stickers are here and already causing controversy
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Well, that didn’t take long: Just a week after Meta announced a “universe of AI” for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, the company’s new AI-generated stickers are already causing controversy. Some users have already received […]
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AI copilot enhances human precision for safer aviation
Imagine you’re in an airplane with two pilots, one human and one computer. Both have their “hands” on the controllers, but they’re always looking out for different things. If they’re both paying attention to the same thing, the human gets to steer. But if the human gets distracted or misses something, the computer quickly takes […]
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Microsoft’s AutoGen framework allows multiple AI agents to talk to each other and complete your tasks
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Microsoft has joined the race for large language model (LLM) application frameworks with its open source Python library, AutoGen. As described by Microsoft, AutoGen is “a framework for simplifying the orchestration, optimization, and automation […]
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Virtual Reality with Real World Impact
There was a time when the excitement surrounding the metaverse was at fever pitch. The company then known as Facebook’s 2014 acquisition of Oculus set the stage. Years-long rumors of Apple being “about to launch” an augmented reality (AR) headset of its own added more heat. The intervening years saw dramatic growth in VR headset […]
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Frec steps out of stealth with $26M in funding, aiming to democratize sophisticated investing with AI
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Emerging from stealth today, fintech startup Frec announced it has raised $26.4 million in seed and Series A funding led by Greylock, with participation from Social Leverage and others. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based […]
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Robin Williams’ Daughter Is Not Cool With People Using AI To Make ‘Personally Disturbing’ Imitations Of Her Late Father
We’re currently in an awkward, troubling spot when it comes to artificial intelligence. The rapidly evolving tech has its upsides, but also many disturbing downsides. AI regulation was even a key concern during the WGA strike, and ditto the ongoing SAG-AFTRA one. Actors are rightly worried about unlicensed imitations. Tom Hanks recently called out an […]
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Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is Ubiquitous
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, testified on Monday that Google’s power in online search was so ubiquitous that even his company found it difficult to compete on the internet, becoming the government’s highest-profile witness in its landmark antitrust trial against the search giant. In more than three hours of testimony in federal court in Washington, […]
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A more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
A strategy for cellular reprogramming involves using targeted genetic interventions to engineer a cell into a new state. The technique holds great promise in immunotherapy, for instance, where researchers could reprogram a patient’s T-cells so they are more potent cancer killers. Someday, the approach could also help identify life-saving cancer treatments or regenerative therapies that […]
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Is AI in the eye of the beholder?
Someone’s prior beliefs about an artificial intelligence agent, like a chatbot, have a significant effect on their interactions with that agent and their perception of its trustworthiness, empathy, and effectiveness, according to a new study. Researchers from MIT and Arizona State University found that priming users — by telling them that a conversational AI agent […]
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The implications of the generative AI gold rush
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Big tech companies and venture capitalists are in the midst of a gold rush, investing astronomical sums into leading AI labs that are creating generative models. Last week, Amazon announced a $4 billion investment […]
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Who will benefit from AI?
What if we’ve been thinking about artificial intelligence the wrong way? After all, AI is often discussed as something that could replicate human intelligence and replace human work. But there is an alternate future: one in which AI provides “machine usefulness” for human workers, augmenting but not usurping jobs, while helping to create productivity gains […]
Read MoreAmazon Bedrock is now generally available as AWS enterprise GenAI efforts get serious
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Making a foundation model for generative AI available is just the beginning, not a comprehensive solution, in supporting the complex demands of enterprise use cases. Today in a major step forward, Amazon Web Services […]
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China Uses ‘Deceptive’ Methods to Sow Disinformation, U.S. Says
The State Department accused China on Thursday of using “deceptive and coercive methods” to shape the global information environment, by acquiring stakes in foreign newspapers and television networks, using major social media platforms to promote its views and exerting pressure on international organizations and media outlets to silence critics of Beijing. The accusations, detailed in […]
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Elon Musk, Geoff Hinton, and the War Over A.I.
There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. Reading the headlines, one would hope that the rapid gains in A.I. technology have also brought forth a unifying realization of the risks — and the steps we need to take to mitigate them. […]
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What comes after AIOps? Atera says it’s AI powered IT (AIT)
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More The concept of AIOps, that is using AI to help optimize IT operations is not a new one and predates the modern era of generative AI Generative AI can bring more capabilities to IT […]
Read MoreExclusive: Microsoft opens AI Co-Innovation Lab in San Francisco to empower Bay Area startups
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Microsoft announced today in an exclusive VentureBeat report the opening of its fifth AI Co-Innovation Lab, located in downtown San Francisco at 555 California Street. The lab provides startups and enterprises with access to […]
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Re-imagining the opera of the future
In the mid-1980s, composer Tod Machover came across a copy of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel “VALIS” in a Parisian bookstore. Based on a mystical vision Dick called his “pink light experience,” “VALIS” was an acronym for “vast active living intelligence system.” The metaphysical novel would become the basis for Machover’s opera of the […]
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Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps
In a WhatsApp text conversation this week, we asked Jane Austen — yes, the 19th-century British author — how she felt about Mr. Darcy, a character from one of her most famous works, “Pride and Prejudice.” After a few seconds, Ms. Austen responded. “Ah, Mr. Darcy. Everyone remembers him as one of my characters,” she […]
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The New ChatGPT Can ‘See’ and ‘Talk.’ Here’s What It’s Like.
ChatGPT — viral artificial intelligence sensation, slayer of boring office work, sworn enemy of high school teachers and Hollywood screenwriters alike — is getting some new powers. On Monday, ChatGPT’s maker, OpenAI, announced that it was giving the popular chatbot the ability to “see, hear and speak” with two new features. The first is an […]
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To Bring Socializing Back to Social Networks, Apps Try A.I. Imagery
Myuri Thiruna, a freelance photographer in Toronto, used to post frequently on Instagram and discuss photography with other users. But she said she had stopped two years ago, feeling “drained” by the demands of social media and the pursuit of followers and trends. Then in July, Ms. Thiruna discovered Can of Soup, a new invitation-only […]
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Europe’s largest seeded startup Mistral AI releases first model, outperforming Llama 2 13B
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Mistral AI, the six-month-old Paris-based startup that made headlines with its unique Word Art logo and a record-setting $118 million seed round — reportedly the largest seed in the history of Europe — today […]
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Revefi secures $10.5M in seed funding, launches AI-powered enterprise data platform
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Revefi, a Seattle-based AI startup aiming to be a “copilot” for enterprise data teams, has secured $10.5 million in seed funding in a round led by Mayfield managing partner Navin Chaddha. Other participants included […]
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From physics to generative AI: An AI model for advanced pattern generation
Generative AI, which is currently riding a crest of popular discourse, promises a world where the simple transforms into the complex — where a simple distribution evolves into intricate patterns of images, sounds, or text, rendering the artificial startlingly real. The realms of imagination no longer remain as mere abstractions, as researchers from MIT’s Computer […]
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Cloud giants Amazon, Microsoft and Google ignite battle over AI
There’s a point in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones at which a younger Jedi Master Yoda utters the meme-worthy phrase “Begun, the clone war has,” in his atypical backwards sentence structure. Except, in the case of the tech industry, the phrase is more like “begun, the AI wars have.” Cloud computing leaders […]
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Lousy AI Technology Got 5 Black Plaintiff’s Messed Up
Randal Quran Reid is the latest plaintiff to take legal action against a police department and not for the classic, police brutality case you’d think. Reid is accusing the cops of falsely identifying him as a crime suspect based off of facial recognition technology. He’s not the only one either. Courtney B. Vance in Heist […]
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The Secret Ingredient of ChatGPT Is Human Advice
Last November, the company behind Facebook released a chatbot called Galactica. After a torrent of complaints that the bot made up historical events and spewed other nonsense, Meta removed it from the internet. Two weeks later, the San Francisco start-up OpenAI released a chatbot called ChatGPT. It was a worldwide sensation. Both bots were powered […]
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ChatGPT Can Now Respond With Spoken Words
ChatGPT has learned to talk. OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up, released a version of its popular chatbot on Monday that can interact with people using spoken words. As with Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and other digital assistants, users can talk to ChatGPT and it will talk back. For the first time, ChatGPT can […]
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Writers Guild Deal With Studios Reflects Power of Unions
What we learned from the writers strike One of the longest-running strikes of 2023 is near an end: The Writers Guild of America reached a tentative agreement on Sunday with Hollywood studios on a new contract, 146 days after its more than 11,000 screenwriters walked out of movie and television productions. The work stoppage isn’t […]
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Amazon to Invest Up to $4 Billion in A.I. Start-up Anthropic
Amazon said on Monday that it would invest up to $4 billion in the artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, as the world’s biggest technology companies race to benefit from A.I. breakthroughs that could reshape parts of their businesses — and the economy as a whole. Amazon is trying to keep pace with rivals such as Microsoft […]
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