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In today's Techpresso:
🔮 Apple's plans to bring gen AI to iPhones
🤷♀️ OpenAI went back on a promise to make key documents public
🎥 Google unveils AI video generator Lumiere
🚪 Ring will no longer allow police to request doorbell camera footage from users
❌ AI rolled out in India declares people dead, denies food to thousands
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
🔮 Apple's plans to bring gen AI to iPhonesLINK
Apple is intensifying its AI efforts, acquiring 21 AI start-ups since 2017, including WaveOne for AI-powered video compression, and hiring top AI talent. The company's approach includes developing AI technologies for mobile devices, aiming to run AI chatbots and apps directly on iPhones rather than relying on cloud services, with significant job postings in deep learning and large language models. Apple is also enhancing its hardware, like the M3 Max processor and A17 Pro chip, to support generative AI, and has made advancements in running large language models on-device using Flash memory.
🤷♀️ OpenAI went back on a promise to make key documents publicLINK
OpenAI, initially committed to transparency, has backed away from making key documents public, as evidenced by WIRED's unsuccessful attempt to access governing documents and financial statements. The company's reduced transparency conceals internal issues, including CEO Sam Altman's controversial firing and reinstatement, and the restructuring of its board. Since creating a for-profit subsidiary in 2019, OpenAI's shift from openness has sparked criticism, including from co-founder Elon Musk, and raised concerns about its governance and conflict of interest policies.
🎥 Google unveils AI video generator LumiereLINK
Google introduces Lumiere, a new AI video generator that uses an innovative 'space-time diffusion model' to create highly realistic and imaginative five-second videos. Lumiere stands out for its ability to efficiently synthesize entire videos in one seamless process, showcasing features like transforming text prompts into videos and animating still images. The unveiling of Lumiere highlights the ongoing advancements in AI video generation technology and the potential challenges in ensuring its ethical and responsible use.
🚪 Ring will no longer allow police to request doorbell camera footage from usersLINK
Amazon's Ring is discontinuing its Request for Assistance program, stopping police from soliciting doorbell camera footage via the Neighbors app.
Authorities must now file formal legal requests to access Ring surveillance videos, instead of directly asking users within the app.
Privacy advocates recognize Ring's decision as a progressive move, but also note that it doesn't fully address broader concerns about surveillance and user privacy.
❌ AI rolled out in India declares people dead, denies food to thousandsLINK
In India, AI has mistakenly declared thousands of people dead, leading to the denial of essential food and pension benefits. The algorithm, designed to find welfare fraud, removed 1.9 million from the beneficiary list, but later analysis showed about 7% were wrongfully cut. Out of 66,000 stopped pensions in Haryana due to an algorithmic error, 70% were found to be incorrect, placing the burden of proof on beneficiaries to reinstate their status.
Other news you might like
Google settles a major AI-chip patent lawsuit for undisclosed terms, avoiding a $1.67 billion claim for using Singular's patented technology.LINK
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees.LINK
HPE confirms a Russian-linked hacking group, Midnight Blizzard, breached its cloud-based email.LINK
Apple reportedly plans to charge developers if they offer sideloaded apps.LINK
The UK is exploring vertiport designs for air taxis.LINK
Worldcoin to launch new Orb to make its eyeball scanning device look “more friendly”.LINK
MIT researchers' new rapid liquid printing technique is 10x faster.LINK
Netflix, hungry for more growth, signals more price hikes.LINK
Latest research and tools
Placemark: a web-based tool now open-source that lets users edit and manage geospatial data online.LINK
BLIS: a software framework for rapid and efficient implementation of basic linear algebra operations similar to BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms).LINK
Self-rewarding-lm-PyTorch: a PyTorch implementation of MetaAI's language model that rewards itself to help with unsupervised learning.LINK
Integer Map Data Structure: a specialized system for organizing and accessing numbers efficiently in programming.LINK
Tech Digest: a new technique speeds up AI language models while using less memory.LINK
Promotion of Scientific Pubs on ArXiv and X on the Rise and Impacts Citations: sharing scientific papers on the ArXiv repository and social platforms like X increases the number of times the papers are cited.LINK
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