AI News Weekly – Issue #400: Fei-Fei Li’s New AI Venture Soars to $1B Valuation – Aug 22nd 2024
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NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B
World Labs, a stealthy startup founded by renowned Stanford University AI professor Fei-Fei Li, has raised two rounds of financing two months apart, according to multiple reports.
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In The News
YouTube creator sues Nvidia and OpenAI for ‘unjust enrichment’ for using their videos for AI training
Do AI LLMs create new and transformative works based on the data they scrape off the internet?
ChatGPT firm OpenAI strikes deal with Vogue owner
OpenAI and global magazine giant Condé Nast have announced a partnership to allow ChatGPT and its search engine SearchGPT to display content from Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ and other well known publications.
The unstoppable rise of Chubby: Why TikTok’s AI-generated cat could be the future of the internet
Tearjerker videos of AI-generated cats earned millions of views and a devoted following, blurring the line between spam and art. Is it the algorithm, or is this what the internet wants?
Applied use cases
Kamala Harris’ Rally Crowds Aren’t AI-Generated. Here’s How You Can Tell
Conspiracy theories have shot up around images of surging crowds for Harris-Walz campaign events. But all it takes is a little research to prove the photos are real.
A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem
Using generative large language models (LLMs) like those behind ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, the system can brainstorm, select a promising idea, code new algorithms, plot results, and write a paper summarising the experiment and its findings, complete with references.
AI Predicts Earthquakes With Unprecedented Accuracy
Researchers at the University of Texas have developed an AI that predicted 70% of earthquakes during a trial in China, indicating potential for future quake risk mitigation.
Ethics
Anti-Deepfake Law Passes US Senate Unanimously
The law would create a civil right for victims of non-consensual deepfake pornography to sue those responsible.
X faces GDPR complaints for unauthorized use of data for AI training
European privacy advocate NOYB (None of Your Business) has filed nine GDPR complaints about X using the personal data from over 60 million users in Europe to train “Grok,” the social media company’s large language model.
Defense Priorities in the Open-Source AI Debate
A spirited debate is taking place over the regulation of open foundation models—artificial intelligence models whose underlying architectures and parameters are made public and can be inspected, modified, and run by end users.
Robotics
Watch this robot quickly install roof shingles
Renovate Robotics on Tuesday unveiled its latest rooftop robot, the Rufus V1. The system is a refinement of the prototypes the New York-based firm showcased earlier this year. It automates one of construction’s most common — and dangerous — tasks.
A new system lets robots sense human touch without artificial skin
It could help make interactions between robots and humans smoother and more intuitive.
Build your own AI-powered robot
Hugging Face, the open-source AI powerhouse, has taken a significant step towards democratizing low-cost robotics with the release of a detailed tutorial that guides developers through the process of building and training their own AI-powered robots.
Research
Implications of causality in artificial intelligence
Causal AI emphasizes identifying cause-and-effect relationships and plays a crucial role in creating more robust and reliable systems, thereby promoting fairness and transparency in AI development. Responsible, Fair, and Explainable AI has several weaknesses.
ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI tools for research
Some of these tools allow for the end-user to load their own files (.pdf, Word, etc.) into their platform. Please read their terms of service and make sure you understand if/how they will retain the files that you add onto their platform, and whether or not they will be used for further training of the service. This is especially important when you are working with private and/or other sensitive data or information.
AI for deconstruction: Current state, challenges, and opportunities
By offering insights into AI’s application for key deconstruction activities, this paper paves the way for realising AI’s potential benefits for this sector.
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