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  ChatGPT made Large Language Models one of the most cutting edge types of technology out there, but in spite of the fact that this is the case, we are already seeing the rise of MLLMs, or Multimodal Large Language Models, that can process images as well as text. Apple has just released its own MLLM dubbed MGIE, and it might represent the next step forward in the AI race with all things having been considered and taken into account. The main thing that sets  MGIE  apart is its ability to edit images based on natural language instructions. Prompts don’t have to be delivered in a way that would be interpreted solely by an AI, but rather with normal everyday language, similar to the instructions one would give to a human image editor. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that MGIE uses its MLLM to translate plain language into more technical instructions. For example, if a user were to give the instruction to make the sky in a par...

  The EU is gearing up to  criminalize serious offenses  such as the display of child abuse through AI imagery and deepfakes. The country’s regulatory bodies have been calling it an act that was a long time coming, especially because so many laws continue to spring up as a means of curbing the matter and the rise in tech developments. In the same way, it’s making proposals linked to calling the act of showcasing child abuse through livestreams a criminal offense as well. They are also making ways to ban the exchange of pedophile manuals as they would be called a criminal offense under this plan. This is said to be a part of a wide plan regarding measures of the EU which hopes to boost such laws and more in the future. The online risks are serious in this case and from what we’re seeing right now, it’s getting more difficult for users to curb the matter while victims are finding it harder to report such crimes. Right now, the proposal in question goes back to 2011 and it h...

  Elon Musk has announced that his company Neuralink has started experimenting with chips for human brains to connect the brain with technology. The company has already planted the chip in a human test subject. This news brought mixed reactions from the public and to see what people think of it, Y ouGov conducted a poll  in February 2024. A total of 1,000 people responded to the poll and it was found that only 8% of the respondents would get a chip in their brain if it's sold publicly. 82% of the respondents responded with a firm no when asked if they would want to have a chip implanted in their brain. 10% of the respondents were indecisive so they marked undecided. 2% of the people in the poll were ready to volunteer as a human test subject to get a chip implanted in their brain within the next year. Overall, 5% of the respondents said that they would like to get the chip in their brain within the next year. Men (13%) were ready for chips to be available commercially as compa...

  The rise of AI has made it so that countless marketers are relying on these tools in order to create content for their clients. This begs the question, how transparent are marketers about this practice? Filestage conducted  a survey  back in December 2023, and it shed some light on the level of transparency that can currently be seen in the industry with all things having been considered and taken into account. It bears mentioning that the proportion of marketers that tell stakeholders about their use of AI depends on who these stakeholders actually are. For example, 77% of marketers working for start ups told their superiors about using AI, but just 46% of marketers employed at production companies said the same. The proportions for agencies, established brands and freelancers were 61%, 59% and 55% respectively. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that start up marketers also used AI a bit more frequently than might have be...

  Popular news site Semafor has just rolled out a powerful AI-based editorial tool  dubbed Signals . The tool is said to make use of AI-based research, attaining help from Microsoft’s Bing and ChatGPT. What users get in the end is a news feed from various sources around the globe, as mentioned by the startup on Monday. Microsoft is providing full sponsorship for Signals and also rolling out a disguised amount in the name of funding, as mentioned by  The Financial Times . It created the customized AI bot so that journalists can benefit from this OpenAI platform as well as Bing. Meanwhile, Site Editors spoke about the findings arising from the chatbot and how it was able to generate all kinds of accurate answers, produce synopses, and also cite sources if need be. Meanwhile, another post was found on X where the editor-in-chief spoke about the great efforts involved in bettering the digital media landscape that’s been  broken  for years. They spoke about how AI to...

  A new and alarming study has taken center stage and it has proven how AI lobbying has attained record-breaking figures. The surge in AI lobbying that arose in 2023 was so massive that figures depicted a whopping 185% rise from stats seen in 2022. The change is huge and in the past, we saw close to 158 different firms participating and now, it’s nearly 450 different companies that are a part of the activity which has experts talking. The news comes to us thanks to federal lobbying findings that were analyzed by the likes of  OpenSecrets in collaboration with CNBC . The huge rise in AI lobbying arrives at a time when there are more calls for regulating AI and now, we’re watching President Biden’s admin start codifying such regulations. Remember, firms that started lobbying during the start of 2023 wished to have a word on how regulation would impact the businesses entailing the likes of TikTok and Tesla. Others that were a part of the list included Spotify, Shopify, Pinterest,...

  You might think that text generated by AI would be extremely easy to spot, but in spite of the fact that this is the case, it has become increasingly effective at passing as human written content. It turns out that AI generated has become so advanced that it might even be surpassing human written copy in terms of quality. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that a survey conducted by  Semrush reveale d  something surprising. 54% of people that responded to this survey preferred content that had been generated by an AI. It also won in terms of product descriptions and social media posts, both of which were preferred by 65% of respondents, as well as 70% for social media ads. 38% of the people that responded to this survey were between the ages of 25 and 44, with 12% aged from 18 to 24, 18% between 45 and 54, and 32% 55 or older. The respondents that liked AI copy better said that it didn’t waste any time before diving into th...

  Liang Rubo, CEO of ByteDance which is the parent company of TikTok, has issued  a warning  stating that the company is being too slow in its adoption of AI, pointing to GPT-1 being launched back in 2018. In spite of the fact that this is the case, TikTok didn’t start looking into generative AI until the middle of 2023, and that might end up making the platform stagnate at this current point in time. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that Liang issued these statements at a meeting in Singapore. He stated that his company isn’t all that great at spotting new up and coming tech, and this might end up making future growth a lot harder than might have been the case otherwise. Currently, Google and Microsoft have already launched their own AI models, and that is largely due to them being early adopters of the tech. While ByteDance has conducted some experiments with AI based chatbots, including Cici and ChitChop for foreign mar...

  When ChatGPT burst onto the scene, one of the predictions that people made about its overall impact was that the internet would soon be flooded by AI generated content as well as spam. It turns out that this prediction has come true, and there are three recent events that highlight what’s currently going on with all things having been considered and taken into account. First and foremost is the incident involving  404 Media  which had to take steps to retool its website for the purposes of preventing AI related spam. Some of its stories have been rewritten by websites that are better search engine optimized, and as a result of the fact that this is the case, they rank even higher than the website that actually created the content in the first place. Such a trend can be harmful because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up taking revenue and clicks away from a site like 404 Media. There are now tools that can create hundreds of differen...

  Tech giant OpenAI has been at the forefront for months as it wishes to win parents’ trust as well as that linked to policymakers after being called out as unsafe for minors. But the ChatGPT maker is making sure people steer far away from that impression of it being unsafe for various reasons. That is why it’s creating a new partnership with firms so that it works to limit tech and media dangers to youngsters. The main point worth focusing upon here has to do with OpenAI rolling out  a new partnership with Common Sense Media  which is the top non-profit firm known for reviewing the ranks of suitability of different media and tech for youngsters. The goal is to partner up with AI guidelines and education materials so that parents and young adults can benefit. As part of this collaboration, we’re saying hello to OpenAI to work with the firm to curate family-friendly GPTs at the store. So this means giving rise to GPT’s marketplace depending on the ratings observed and the ...

  AI is getting popular day by day, especially among young people. Many youngsters are using AI for doing their work, especially coding. But one of the New York’s top bankers say that AI wasn't made so that kids could use it for developing coding skills. It was made so the kids can learn good judgment and critical skills. The co-founder of Centerview Partners LLC, Blair Effron said that I am not sure if I have ever advised my kids that learning coding is going to be a good skill in the coming 10 years. What I advise my kids is that critical thinking and judgment skills are going to help them a lot in the next few years. Blair Effron is known as someone who had the largest corporate deal in the history of the US and that's why his opinion about these things matter. He said that critical thinking skills are a lot important in banking investments. And AI models do not possess these types of skills. AI is set to replace many skills but critical thinking is something it cannot repla...

  According to a study conducted by  Cognizant , AI could bring a lot of change in the US economy in the coming years. It is predicted that AI could bring about $1 trillion to the US economy in the coming decade. But it’s not all, because many US workers will also lose their jobs because AI will take over those. The study took help from a model to demonstrate how AI could impact low, middle and high businesses. The first model revealed that AI is quickly taking over many businesses. 2023 was a year when companies were experimenting with AI but in the coming years, all work load will be shifted to them. 13% of the companies in the US are going to adopt the AI tech for work with in the next 3 to 4 years. This will increase up to 31% in the next four to 8 years and up to 50% in a decade. After 10 years, the AI adoption will slow down a little bit but won’t completely stop. Companies will soon adapt AI in work in the next 20 years. The researchers studied all the tasks that r...