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In today's Techpresso:
👀 Sam Altman and Jony Ive seek $1B for personal AI device
🚕 Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil robotaxi in August
🔖 Meta to label content ‘made with AI’
🙃 How OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies to train their AI
🛒 Tech giants are on a billion-dollar shopping spree for AI training data
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
👀 Sam Altman and Jony Ive seek $1B for personal AI deviceLINK
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple design chief Jony Ive are collaborating to create an AI-powered personal device and are currently seeking funding.
The specifics of the device are unclear, but it is noted to not resemble a smartphone, with speculation about it being similar to the screenless Humane AI pin.
The venture, still unnamed, aims to raise up to $1 billion and is in discussions with major investors, including Thrive Capital and Emerson Collective, with potential ownership involvement from OpenAI.
🚕 Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil robotaxi in AugustLINK
Elon Musk announced that Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on August 8th, aiming to focus on autonomous vehicles over mass-market EVs.
The Tesla robotaxi is part of Musk's vision for a shared fleet that owners can monetize, described in the Tesla Network within his Master Plan Part Deux.
Musk's history of ambitious claims about self-driving technology contrasts with regulatory scrutiny and safety concerns involving Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features.
🔖 Meta to label content ‘made with AI’LINK
Meta announced that starting in May 2024, AI-generated content on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will be labeled "Made with AI."
The decision for broader labeling, including AI-generated videos, audio, and images, is influenced by expert consultations and public opinion surveys.
Meta's goal with the "Made with AI" label is to provide more context to users, aiding in content evaluation, while content violating community standards will still be removed.
🙃 How OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies to train their AILINK
OpenAI, Google, and Meta pushed the boundaries of data acquisition for AI development, with OpenAI transcribing over one million hours of YouTube videos for its GPT-4 model, potentially violating platform rules and copyright laws. Meta considered extreme measures such as purchasing a publishing house for access to copyrighted materials, and Google amended its privacy policy to potentially harness user-generated content in Google Docs for AI. As the demand for data outpaces supply, tech companies are exploring the creation of synthetic data generated by AI models themselves, despite the risk of models reinforcing their own errors, suggesting a future where AI might train on data it generates.
🛒 Tech giants are on a billion-dollar shopping spree for AI training dataLINK
Tech giants are spending billions to license images, videos, and other content from companies such as Photobucket and Shutterstock to train their AI models, with costs ranging from 5 cents to $1 per photo and more for videos.
Prices for licensing data to train AI vary, with figures from $1 to $2 per image, $2 to $4 for short videos, and up to $300 per hour for longer films, while special handling items like nude images may cost $5 to $7 each.
Legal concerns arise as companies like Photobucket update their terms of service to sell user-uploaded content for AI training, despite the US Federal Trade Commission warning against retroactively changing terms for AI use, leading to investigations into deals like Reddit’s with Google.
Other news you might like
Elon Musk denies report claiming that Tesla has scrapped its affordable car.LINK
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators.LINK
Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s new app has just 1,000 downloads: report.LINK
Anthropic's Claude 3 can now reliably select the right tool for the job from hundreds of options.LINK
Sundar Pichai on the challenge of innovating in a huge company and what he’s excited about this year.LINK
He got a pig kidney transplant. Now doctors need to keep it working.LINK
The PlayStation Vita still rules.LINK
Latest research and tools
SearXNG: a free internet metasearch engine that aggregates results from more than 70 search services without tracking users, offering features like a user, admin, and developer handbook, a Docker image, installation scripts, detailed setup instructions, administrator documentation, a development quickstart guide, and the ability to contribute via GitHub Codespaces.LINK
AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse: the paper discusses how artificial intelligence can lead to the erosion of collective knowledge due to over-reliance on automated systems for decision-making.LINK
C++ Insights: a Clang-based tool that transforms source code to reveal the implicit actions and transformations performed by the compiler, making the unseen aspects of code compilation visible.LINK
Loki: an open-source tool designed to automate the multimodal fact verification process by dissecting long texts into claims, assessing them, generating queries, crawling for evidence, and verifying the claims for journalists, researchers, and the interested public.LINK
Language Models Are Super Mario: absorbing abilities from homologous models is explored, showing how language models can enhance their capabilities by assimilating knowledge from similar models.LINK
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