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The Download: Europe vs Chinese EVs, and making AI vision less biased

1 Here’s what’s lurking inside Meta’s AI databaseA whole lot of Shakespeare, erotica, and, err, horror written for children. (The Atlantic $)+ Meta’s latest AI model is free for all. (MIT Technology... Read more »

What’s changed since the “pause AI” letter six months ago?

Well, that didn’t happen, obviously.  I sat down with MIT professor Max Tegmark, the founder and president of FLI, to take stock of what has happened since. Here are highlights of our... Read more »

Europe is working to slow down the global expansion of Chinese EVs

In the long term, it could get to a point where BYD will be able to sell its cars profitably in Europe while still keeping the price lower than the cost of... Read more »

These new tools could make AI vision systems less biased

Traditionally, skin-tone bias in computer vision is measured using the Fitzpatrick scale, which measures from light to dark. The scale was originally developed to measure tanning of white skin but has since... Read more »

Getty Images promises its new AI contains no copyrighted art

Peters says that  the creators of the images—and any people that appear in them—have consented to having their art used in the AI model. Getty is also offering a Spotify-style compensation model... Read more »

Now you can chat with ChatGPT using your voice

In last week’s demo, Raul Puri, a scientist who works on GPT-4, gave me a quick tour of the image recognition feature. He uploaded a photo of a kid’s math homework, circled... Read more »

The Download: ChatGPT gets even chattier, and recreating space on Earth

The news: OpenAI has launched two new ways to interact with its flagship large language model in a major update. You can have a spoken conversation with the chatbot as if you... Read more »

An inside look at Congress’s first AI regulation forum

It was leaked that you had an exchange with Elon Musk regarding the risks posed by AI. [Ed note: Musk said he had told the Chinese government that AI might eventually be... Read more »

These scientists live like astronauts without leaving Earth

Across the world, around 20 analog space facilities host people who volunteer to be study subjects, isolating themselves for weeks or months in polar stations, desert outposts, or even sealed habitats inside... Read more »

Making sense of sensor data

These aren’t glimpses of a distant future, but realities made possible today by the increasingly digitally instrumented world. Internet of Things (IoT) sensors have been rapidly integrated across industries, and now constantly... Read more »