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Baidu CEO Robin Li has proclaimed that hallucinations produced by large language models are no longer a problem, and predicted a massive wipeout of AI startups when the “bubble” bursts. From a report: “The most significant change we’re seeing over the … Continue reading AI ‘Bubble’ Will Burst 99% of Players, Says Baidu CEO→

Though Sam Altman once called OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft “the best bromance in tech,” now “ties between the companies have started to fray” reports the New York Times — citing interviews with 19 people “familiar with the relationship”. [… Continue reading Is the Microsoft-OpenAI ‘Bromance’ Beginning to Fray?→

“Who asked for any of this in the first place?” wonders a New York Times consumer-tech writer. (Alternate URL here.) “Judging from the feedback I get from readers, lots of people outside the tech industry remain uninterested in AI — and are incre… Continue reading Can We Turn Off AI Tools From Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta? Sometimes…→

The world’s biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors’ intellectual property from being used to train large language models and other artificial intelligence tools, The Bookseller has reported. From … Continue reading Penguin Random House Underscores Copyright Protection in AI Rebuff→

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Recently, AI researcher Simon Willison wanted to add up his charges from using a cloud service, but the payment values and dates he needed were scattered among a dozen separate emails. Inputting th… Continue reading Cheap AI ‘Video Scraping’ Can Now Extract Data From Any Screen Recording→

An anonymous reader shares a report: Every year for the past seven, Nathan Benaich, the founder and solo general partner at the early-stage AI investment firm Air Street Capital, has produced a magisterial “State of AI” report. Benaich and his collabor… Continue reading OpenAI’s Lead Over Other AI Companies Has Largely Vanished, ‘State of AI’ Report Finds→

Salesforce founder and chief executive Marc Benioff has doubled down on his criticism of Microsoft’s Copilot, the AI-powered tool that can write Word documents, create PowerPoint presentations, analyze Excel spreadsheets and even reply to emails throug… Continue reading Salesforce CEO Benioff Says Microsoft’s Copilot Doesn’t Work, Doesn’t Offer ‘Any Level of Accuracy’ And Customers Are ‘Left Cleaning Up the Mess’→

During its MAX event yesterday, Adobe teased some experimental photo and video editing tools for PhotoShop and Premiere Pro. There are a total of nine features, which include being able to rotate vector images, produce sound effects from text descripti… Continue reading Adobe’s Upcoming Features Include AI Sound Generation and Image Remixing→