Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images
Katie Paul, Reuters
Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind.
ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused
Pranshu Verma and Will Oremus, The Washington Post
The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence.
AI Is Bringing the Voice of the Dead Back to Narrate Your Audiobook
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, The New York Times
Apple, Google and others embrace the new technology for recording audio versions of books.
Amidst controversies, OpenAI insists safety is mission critical
Cecily Mauran, Mashable
OpenAI has addressed safety issues following recent ethical and regulatory backlash. The statement(Opens in a new tab) published on Thursday, was a rebuttal-apology hybrid that simultaneously aimed to assure the public its products are safe and admit there’s room for improvement.
Mark Zuckerberg is spending most of his time on A.I., says Meta CTO
Ashley Capoot, CNBC
Meta’s top executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, chief product officer Chris Cox and chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth are spending most of their time working on artificial intelligence.
OpenAI to propose remedies to Italian ban on ChatGPT
Supantha Mukherjee and Elvira Pollina, Reuters
OpenAI plans to present measures to Italian authorities on Thursday to remedy concerns that led to a ban of its ChatGPT chatbot in Italy last week, the country’s data protection authorities said.
The public loves trying to push chatbots over the edge
Ina Fried, Axios
The companies offering generative AI to the public are mostly learning the same lesson: People love using it, but they also love discovering its boundaries — and pushing past them.
India opts against AI regulation
Manish Singh, TechCrunch
India does not plan to regulate the growth of AI within the South Asian market, identifying the sector as a “significant and strategic” area for the nation. This stance arrives at a time when numerous voices are calling for increased scrutiny of the rapidly advancing technology.