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  At Apple's yearly meeting, big shareholders have a chance to suggest changes. This year, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) wants Apple to share how it uses AI and its rules for using this technology safely. Norges Bank Investment Management and Legal & General, two of Apple's biggest shareholders, are  backing this idea . Norges Bank says Apple should think about how its work and products affect society. Legal & General talked to Apple about being more open with its AI plans but didn't get the details they wanted. They think Apple should be clear about how it uses AI and how it manages any risks. A big advisory group, Institutional Shareholder Services, is telling Apple's investors to support this AI proposal. They believe Apple's current rules don't fully cover the risks of using AI. This makes it hard for shareholders to understand the dangers. Apple, however, doesn't want this proposal to pass. T...

  Stability AI has just announced  Stable Diffusion 3 , its newest and most advanced AI for making images. This release seems to be a move to stay ahead of new AI technologies from OpenAI and Google. While we're still waiting for more details, it's clear that Stable Diffusion 3, or SD3, introduces a fresh setup and aims to work well on many types of computers, although you'll need a strong one. SD3 is built on an updated method called " diffusion transformer. " This idea started in 2022, got an update in 2023, and is now ready to be used more widely. It shares some concepts with  Sora, OpenAI' s video-making tool. SD3 also uses "flow matching," a new way to make better-quality images without making the system too heavy. The new version comes in different sizes, from smaller setups with 800 million parts to huge ones with 8 billion parts. This range means SD3 can run on various computers. Unlike AI tools from OpenAI and Google, you don't need to u...

  Google just rolled out a useful AI writing tool called ‘Help Me Write’ that can be found on the Chrome Browser. The latest initiative  makes text suggestions depending upon the context of the website it comes face to face with. The new AI writing assistant can be found on Chrome and it provides ideas that assist users in producing things like reviews and inquires. Moreover, this feature is up for grabs in the English language only for those located in the US for now. But with time, we can see it do wonders for more people. The tool first made headwaves after being unveiled by the Android maker in January of this year. And after the successful launch carried out this week, many cannot wait to get their hands on it. The tool helps with producing all kinds of things like online reviews and inquiries as well as classified advertisements as well. Google promises that with this new tool, writing is bound to become so much simpler for users. This has to do with the fact that it mak...

  It’s a brave new world: we’ve got self-driving cars, airport robots helping you find your gate, and refrigerators that can tell you when you need milk. Regardless of their purpose, smart tech has more Americans attuned to the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape these days. For many, that means excitement about the growing cache of AI jobs out there. It’s true that opportunities in AI are taking off, and a  new study  by moveBuddha shows hotspots where this niche job market is booming. With California’s long-time dominance in tech and startups, it only makes sense that almost 25% of the country’s AI jobs are in the Golden State. But there’s plenty of gold to go around. Up-and-comers are competing for dominance, and two states even have more AI jobs per capita than California: Virginia and Maryland each have 6 jobs available for every 10,000 residents. The study shows where AI jobs are taking off — and where job seekers might want to take off and relocate. This post sh...

  Research by The Lucy Faithfull Foundation  found out  that 40% of the people in the UK thought that sexual abuse material generated by AI (Artificial Intelligence) is legal in the UK and they didn’t know that it was illegal. The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is a UK based foundation that provides prevention and awareness against sexual abuse. The research also found out that 66% of people in the UK believe that AI is going to have harmful effects on children. On the other hand, 70% of the individuals in UK didn’t know that AI is being used for generating child sexual abuse material (CSAM). 88% of people in UK said that sexual or abusing images of people under 18 generated by AI should be illegal in the UK, 40% said that they assumed that it is legal in the UK. Keep in mind that it is completely illegal to generate, distribute and view sexual images of children in the UK. The foundation is working on raising awareness about how the offenders are using pictures of real childr...

  The rise in deepfake images continues to go strong and that’s one reason why tech giants are concerned as the election period is set to take center stage in the US and around the globe. Plenty of people were seen expressing serious concern on this front and that’s probably why Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI have united on this front. The news is even more concerning now than ever as AI-generated images of the leading star Taylor Swift started to flood across the popular X social media network. Some reports went on to delineate how pictures produced on this front were done through Microsoft’s popular AI picture generator called Designer. Remember, this year is the year where the US is set to get a new head of the nation and there happens to be even more concern linked to AI deepfake pictures being used negatively to influence voters throughout the election period. This is why tech giants feel it’s better now than ever to make use of the best resources to combat using AI techn...

  Google just unveiled  Gemini 1.5 , its latest rendition of the conversational AI system. The product is said to entail a greater array of advances in better efficiency, long-form reasoning, and enhanced performance. The latest system was detailed in a post by Google’s AI head that entailed a large figure of architecture enhancements, ensuring the core model can perform on the same level as the big Gemini 1.0 Ultra endeavor, without using extra computing resources. This latter was rolled out in the past week. The biggest leap comes at a time when there’s a huge window for carrying out experiments that the company says have to do with long-form context comprehension. The standard model of Gemini analyzes several prompts within a small 128k token context. With this new upgrade, the model will have a large number of data to process which can now be done quicker than before. This huge leap arose at a time when we saw the firm’s CEO analyze and classify as well as summarize a huge...

  The number of incidents involving AI technology giving rise to misleading content has been on the rise for months. A recent incident that gained massive attention around the world had to do with music sensation Taylor Swift where deepfake pictures of the star went viral, causing great concern. It featured the most explicit category of images and before we knew it, the internet was flooded with such an ordeal. This was the time when we saw software giant Microsoft enter the line of fire as the culprit behind the act made use of Microsoft Designer to get the images. The firm elaborated more on this front and how it saw no proof of the act arising from its precincts but it did manage to make further changes to its system to avoid such acts from arising in the first place. The goal was to enhance text filtering and address matters about service misuse from the software giant. Today, the company’s head has decided to elaborate more on this front through a post published on  Micro...

  According to  LivePerson ’s just-published State of Customer Conversations 2024 report, business leaders need to start seriously rethinking their plans for AI. In fact, there’s a clear divide coming up between business leaders and their customers regarding AI adoption, enthusiasm, and education. In other words, an "AI Gap" has erupted thanks to all of the hype, backlash, and confusion around AI – and it’s time to figure out how to close the gap if we want the general consumer population to get onboard. Among the report’s key findings: despite the advances and attention around AI (especially generative AI) over the past year, only half of consumers feel positive about using AI to interact with brands, while a massive 91% of business leaders feel positive about using AI to engage with customers. This gap may stem from the average consumer's unfamiliarity and need for clarity about how AI can be used to make their lives easier and more convenient. As it turns out, business...

  OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool has been the rage for a while now. The company just celebrated one year of success and the rollout on mobile devices in May brought about a massive on the App Store too, alongside Google Play. So while the revenue continues to surge, the same cannot be said about downloads as they are stumbling downwards. Yes, fewer people are installing the tool and that’s shocking considering how the company had to actually suspend growth and bar downloads for the premium subscription as they simply could not handle what was taking place. According to  AppFigures  data, the month of November had the company barring signups but the suspension did not last a long time. While many thought the temporary fall in downloads would not last long, recent stats prove otherwise. It’s just a matter of a few months, not! As per recent estimates coming from App Intelligence, the revenue for ChatGPT started to rise quite fast after subscriptions went back to normal. In October, ...