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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 »

The Download: inverse vaccines, and Microsoft’s big deal

On the whole, typical vaccines prime the immune system to respond. But scientists are also working on “inverse vaccines” that teach the immune system to stand down. Last week Jeffrey Hubbell and... Read more »

How inverse vaccines might tackle diseases like multiple sclerosis

These immune-dampening shots could lead to a whole host of therapies to treat autoimmune diseases. In fact, Anokion, a company Hubbell cofounded, has already launched clinical trials to test whether this type... Read more »

Bolstering enterprise LLMs with machine learning operations foundations

Once these components are in place, more complex LLM challenges will require nuanced approaches and considerations—from infrastructure to capabilities, risk mitigation, and talent. Deploying LLMs as a backend Inferencing with traditional ML... Read more »

The Download: what’s next for supercomputers, and electrifying everything

August 2022 We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the same time, we don’t want to... Read more »