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Google Magika is an accurate and fast AI-based open-source file type recognition tool

Summary Google is open-sourcing Magika, an AI system for file type recognition. It can quickly and accurately identify binary and text-based file types. Accurately identifying file types is a challenging problem due to the diverse structures of file formats. Traditional recognition tools such as libmagic rely on hand-crafted heuristics and user-defined rules, which can be …

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Enterprises struggle to implement generative AI, study finds

Summary A new study from Intel-owned cnvrg.io shows that despite the hype, the adoption of generative AI based on large language models is still in its infancy. According to the survey of 434 data scientists, developers and IT managers, only ten percent of companies have successfully integrated generative AI solutions into their business processes. 90 …

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can AI chip shortage be solved without breaking the bank?

Summary OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly wants to raise five to seven trillion dollars for a new global chip infrastructure. A renowned chip engineer would solve the AI chip shortage for a lot less. “Fk [sic] it why not 8,” Altman comments on rumors of his chip ambitions. Chip architect Jim Kellner counters, “I can …

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Air Canada held responsible for chatbot’s misleading advice on airfares

Summary Air Canada must compensate a British Columbia passenger after its chatbot misled him about airfares. The man relied on the chatbot’s information about airfares when booking a flight to his grandmother’s funeral, CTV News reports. Specifically, he wanted to know about special bereavement fares for flights due to a death in the family. The …

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Reddit signs $60 million annual deal for training data, capitalizing on AI boom

Summary Reddit has signed a $60 million annual contract with an unnamed AI company to use the platform’s content to train its AI models. According to Bloomberg, Reddit disclosed this in advance to potential investors, who are expected to support its planned IPO with a valuation of at least five billion US dollars. The deal …

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Air Canada found liable for its lying chatbot and must pay up

Summary Air Canada must compensate a British Columbia passenger after its chatbot misled him about airfares. The man relied on the chatbot’s information about airfares when booking a flight to his grandmother’s funeral, CTV News reports. Specifically, he wanted to know about special bereavement fares for flights due to a death in the family. The …

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OpenAI is now worth 80 billion and likely made a bunch of new millionaires

Summary OpenAI has closed another investor deal and probably made a lot of new millionaires. According to the New York Times, OpenAI is now valued at a minimum of $80 billion. The newspaper, which is suing OpenAI for possible copyright infringement, cites several sources familiar with the matter. The transaction is a so-called “tender offer” …

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Donald Trump GPTs and Tweet Generators slip through OpenAI’s GPT moderation net

Summary Update from February 17, 2024: GPT chatbots like “Trump Tweet Generator” or “Trump” are still online. New similar bots are popping up as well. OpenAI is still not responding to inquiries about whether and how these GPTs conflict with OpenAI’s promise to strictly control the use of its AI technology in the run-up to …

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OpenAI’s quest to trademark “GPT” hits a wall at the US Patent and Trademark Office

Summary The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has denied OpenAI’s trademark application for the acronym “GPT”. The Patent Office stated that GPT is “merely descriptive” and expresses a characteristic of the company’s product. “GPT” stands for General Pretrained Transformer, the name of the technology underlying the large language models. The Transformer technology used in …

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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son aims to raise $100 billion for a new AI chip company to rival Nvidia

AI in practice Feb 17, 2024Feb 17, 2024 Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is planning to raise as much as $100 billion for a new AI chip company …

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