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Here's the latest tech news from the last 24 hours:
🎥 Google admits that a Gemini AI demo video was staged
🤖 X begins rolling out Grok, its ‘rebellious’ chatbot, to subscribers
⚖️ UK competition watchdog to review Microsoft and OpenAI partnership
🦙 Meta trials Purple Llama project for AI developers to test safety risks in models
🍔 An ‘AI’ fast food drive-thru is mostly just human workers in the Philippines
🎥 Google admits that a Gemini AI demo video was stagedLINK
Google's demonstration of its new AI model, Gemini Pro, was partially fabricated, with the company admitting to speeding up video footage and shortening outputs, misleading the public about the model's capabilities. The demo, meant to showcase Gemini Pro's advanced image recognition and reasoning skills, was exaggerated, as the AI was given more time to analyze images than shown, raising doubts about its actual performance. This incident follows Google's previous AI launch mishaps, including a false claim by its ChatGPT competitor, Bard, casting further doubt on the company's AI developments and claims.
🤖 X begins rolling out Grok, its ‘rebellious’ chatbot, to subscribersLINK
Grok is a new AI chatbot by Elon Musk's company, xAI, available to X Premium Plus subscribers and integrates real-time X data into its responses.
Distinct from ChatGPT, Grok possesses a unique personality with a touch of wit, answering provocatively compared to more reserved AI counterparts.
While Grok enhances the subscription value of X by offering conversational AI experiences, it remains text-only but plans for multimodal abilities are underway.
⚖️ UK competition watchdog to review Microsoft and OpenAI partnershipLINK
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is examining whether Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI could reduce competition in AI services.
The CMA's review of the partnership includes a public comment period and might lead to a formal investigation depending on the feedback received.
This inquiry is part of broader efforts to assess the impacts of strategic deals in AI, alongside other ongoing CMA probes into big tech firms' market dominance in cloud services.
🦙 Meta trials Purple Llama project for AI developers to test safety risks in modelsLINK
Meta has launched the Purple Llama initiative to provide open source tools for evaluating and enhancing the safety of generative AI models.
The project includes a set of tools like CyberSec Eval for testing AI models against cybersecurity risks and generating secure code.
Purple Llama's approach aims to check both the input prompts and the outputs generative AI produces to maintain safety and security.
🍔 An ‘AI’ fast food drive-thru is mostly just human workers in the PhilippinesLINK
Presto Automation, an AI drive-thru provider, reportedly has human workers in the Philippines complete over 70% of its orders. The company faces SEC investigation for possibly misleading representations about its AI technology. This situation reflects a broader trend of companies marketing human-powered services as AI, raising concerns about the true role of AI in labor automation.
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Axel Springer will close Upday, pivoting towards an AI-driven "trend news generator" set to launch in 2024, impacting current staff.LINK
This new research hub wants to record your life history via your cells.LINK
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