Summary Thanks to ChatGPT, Midjourney and the like, more and more AI-generated content is appearing on the web. Its machine origin is usually unknown. That is why an EU commissioner is calling for AI content to be labeled. Věra Jourová is Vice-President for Values and Transparency at the EU Commission. She is involved in drafting …
EU commissioner calls for AI content labeling, but it’ll be tough Read More »
Summary Aleph Alpha introduces new language models. In addition to improved performance, they offer a unique selling point that sets them apart from the competition. German AI startup Aleph Alpha has released a new generation of language models. Called Control models by the company, the Base, Extended, and Supreme versions of the Luminous family have …
AI startup Aleph Alpha shows off latest LLMs with a unique feature Read More »
Summary StyleDrop learns the style of any image and helps a generative AI model recreate it. Google’s method outperforms others like Dreambooth, LoRA or Textual Inversion. Google’s new method enables the synthesis of images in a specific style using the Muse text-image model. StyleDrop captures the intricacies of a custom style, including color schemes, shading, …
AI style transfer quickly scales one design to many assets Read More »
Summary Gone are the days of regretting a new haircut or color. With Hairstyle AI, you can try on a variety of styles and colors without leaving the house. The platform has already generated over 80,000 unique hairstyles for users, men and women alike. All you have to do is upload multiple headshots and Hairstyle …
Getting a haircut is about to get a lot more interesting with Hairstyle AI Read More »
Summary In the search for the next big hardware platform, Meta and soon Apple are experimenting with VR and AR headset. Artificial intelligence forms the basis of this new class of devices. VR and AR headsets are benefiting from massive advances in computer vision, the way a computer perceives its environment. Meta’s Quest headset, for …
AI is the foundation of Mixed Reality, says Meta Read More »
Summary Recently, there have been user reports that GPT-4 performance has degraded. According to an OpenAI staff member, this is not the case, at least for the API model. There have been several reports on hacker news and Reddit where users of ChatGPT and GPT-4 are complaining about poorer performance. Visual indications of some changes …
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Summary As part of his trip to Europe, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gave an update on OpenAI’s roadmap. According to Altman, the lack of computing power is slowing down OpenAI’s near-term plans and leading to customer complaints about the reliability of OpenAI’s API. The GPU shortage also limits the API for fine-tuning models, he said. …
Summary What data can be processed to train AI models? Japan and Israel are staking out initial positions, but like everything else on this topic, these are still in the early stages. Large language and image models are trained on a huge amount of data from the Internet. Much of this data is copyrighted and …
AI copyright far from settled as Japan and Israel stake out early positions Read More »
Summary Nyonic is a new AI startup by German AI veterans and a former OpenAI researcher. The company aims to develop foundation models tailored to the needs of European industry. With the founding of Nyonic, the German capital Berlin is strengthening its presence in the global AI scene. The start-up wants to develop generative AI …
German AI startup Nyonic aims to build generative AI for Europe Read More »
Summary Microsoft is improving Bing Chat and plans to release it for other browsers. The context window is getting bigger, which should have a positive effect on the quality of generated content. But many questions remain about the chatbot ecosystem and copyright. Microsoft’s head of search Mikhail Parakhin announced the Bing Chat updates on Twitter. …
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