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[ad_1] Flo Crivello was monitoring outputs from the AI assistants his company Lindy makes when he noticed something strange. A new client had asked her Lindy AI assistant for a video tutorial that would better help her understand how to use the platform, and the Lindy responded in kind – that’s when Crivello knew something was wrong. There is no video tutorial. “We saw this and we were like, ‘Ok, what kind of video did it send?’ and then we were like, ‘Oh snap, this is a problem,’” Crivello told TechCrunch. The video the AI sent the client was the…

[ad_1] At the 2023 Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas, prominent AI tech companies partnered with algorithmic integrity and transparency groups to sic thousands of attendees on generative AI platforms and find weaknesses in these critical systems. This “red-teaming” exercise, which also had support from the US government, took a step in opening these increasingly influential yet opaque systems to scrutiny. Now, the ethical AI and algorithmic assessment nonprofit Humane Intelligence is taking this model one step further. On Wednesday, the group announced a call for participation with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, inviting any US resident…

[ad_1] At first glance, a recent batch of research papers produced by a prominent artificial intelligence lab at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver might not seem that notable. Featuring incremental improvements on existing algorithms and ideas, they read like the contents of a middling AI conference or journal.But the research is, in fact, remarkable. That’s because it’s entirely the work of an “AI scientist” developed at the UBC lab together with researchers from the University of Oxford and a startup called Sakana AI.The project demonstrates an early step toward what might prove a revolutionary trick: letting AI learn…

[ad_1] AI giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and Stability AI have faced a lot of heat over how they’ve scraped data and rode rough-shod over others’ intellectual property when training and operating their foundational models. Now, a startup called Story — that’s announcing $83 million in funding — is bidding to rebalance the scales with a blockchain-based platform to help IP owners track usage more effectively. In the words of CEO and co-founder, S.Y. Lee, the aim is to build a more “sustainable” IP ecosystem fit for the next generation of digital consumers and builders. The startup says its approach is…

Nothing Ear Wireless Earbuds are a state-of-the-art smart earbud solution, featuring advanced technology for an enhanced audio experience. These earbuds integrate ChatGPT, providing users with a unique interactive experience directly through their earbuds[1]. Key Features Smart Active Noise Cancellation (ANC): The earbuds offer up to 45 dB of noise cancellation, which is 1.8 times stronger than previous models. This feature automatically adjusts to noise leakage, ensuring optimal noise isolation[1][3]. High-Resolution Audio: With support for LDAC and LHDC, the earbuds deliver high-resolution audio streaming, maintaining audio quality as intended by artists. This is achieved with a custom 11 mm dynamic bass…

[ad_1] SleekFlow, a Singapore- and Hong Kong-headquartered social commerce platform that has built a conversational AI suite for customer engagement targeted to Asian markets, said Wednesday it had secured a further $7 million in funding. The money will be used to continue developing its AI, as well as penetrate deeper into Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and make inroads into Europe.   The startup’s fundraise and plans for growth underscore the rapid rise of social commerce — where sellers leverage platforms like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok and YouTube to market their goods and find new customers, and consumers use the…

[ad_1] Parker Conrad, founder of Rippling, an HR startup valued at $13.5 billion, shared some interesting thoughts about AI during a recent appearance on our Found podcast.  “No one actually wants to chat with their HR software beyond the sort of novelty of like, oh, my gosh, it responds to me,” he said. He also thinks that too many software companies have been adding not-really useful, novelty AI features into their products.  “There’s just a lot of really insubstantial stuff out there in the AI world,” Conrad said, adding that it’s “not to say that AI is not going to…

[ad_1] AI models have proven capable of many things, but what tasks do we actually want them doing? Preferably drudgery — and there’s plenty of that in research and academia. Reliant hopes to specialize in the kind of time-consuming data extraction work that’s currently a specialty of tired grad students and interns. “The best thing you can do with AI is improve the human experience: reduce menial labor and let people do the things that are important to them,” said CEO Karl Moritz Hermann. In the research world, where he and co-founders Marc Bellemare and Richard Schlegel have worked for…

[ad_1] Simulating the real world is a tremendously complex problem if you want to do it at any useful level of fidelity. Traditional techniques are holding back design teams at vehicle and aerospace companies, but BeyondMath is putting AI on the task with a new way of simulating the world that could save them days or weeks of waiting. “Unlike language, where we don’t have mathematical models to describe what the next word should be, when it comes to physics, we do have those models. And what we’re seeing is that machine learning is actually quite good at computation, not…

[ad_1] The AI industry continues to release tons of new models, and companies looking to stay competitive are racing to adopt them for their purposes. In fact, nearly 10% of businesses plan to spend a whopping $25 million this year on AI initiatives, according to tech consulting firm Searce. But while lots of money is being spent on AI, it’s unclear the ROI is there. Half of all AI leaders aren’t sure how to calculate or demonstrate the value of AI projects, according to Gartner. Ex-Airbnb data scientist Chetan Sharma makes the case that figuring out AI ROI is no…