Midjourney, a leading generative AI imaging startup company, announced this past week that it was banning its users from creating 2024 U.S. election related content via its platform.
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AI SUPERINTELLIGENCE COULD BE THREE YEARS AWAY, EXPERT SAYS
Developers could evolve an artificial intelligence roughly as capable as humans before 2028, computer scientist Ben Goertzel told the Beneficial AGI Summit on 1 March.
HOW AI RECYCLES YOUR TRASH
AI is reshaping an industry less glamorous than inventing drugs or deepfaking politicians. It’s making the recycling business more efficient and, therefore, cheaper.
CHAT-GPT FACES MORE CHALLENGERS CLAIMING TO BEAT ITS PERFORMANCE
Earlier this month, it was China (“China’s New AI Outperforms GPT-4, Developers Claim” 12 Mar 2024). Now rising star Anthropic is claiming its new brood of Claude AIs can best OpenAI’s benchmark GPT system.
AI FLUNKS MORE TESTS OF ITS ABILITY TO PROTECT ELECTION INTEGRITY
The Center for Countering Digital Hate recently tested AI image generators ChatGPT Plus, Microsoft’s Image Creator, Midjourney, and Stability AI’s DreamStudio to see how easily they could create photos that falsify election-related information.
DR. BOT IS COMMITTING MALPRACTICE, PHYSICIANS SAY
A growing number of people are turning to AI to help them understand and interpret health symptoms and advise treatments, physicians are finding. People find ChatGPT more empathetic and easier to communicate with than their own doctors, one study found.
BEWARE THE CRYPTO ROMANCE SCAM
That innocent contact that happened after a like on an X post, or on Facebook?
MICROSOFT ENGINEER STUNNED TO FIND AI MIMICS SOCIETY…AND VIOLATES COPYRIGHTS
In a recent interview with CNBC, a Microsoft engineer revealed that Microsoft’s Copilot generative AI image creator just isn’t complying with the “responsible AI principles” tech companies and the Biden administration have committed to ensuring.
CHINA’S NEW AI OUTPERFORMS GPT-4, DEVELOPERS CLAIM
Spark v3.5, an AI unveiled by the Chinese company iFlytek, is better than OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo in processing language, doing math, coding, and can mimic human speech in ways that reveal emotions, the company announced.
AI HEAVYWEIGHTS INVEST IN ROBOT START-UP
Figure AI, a Silicon Valley start-up building AI-driven robots, announced it has raised $675 million from investors including Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and the family fund of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.