📰 News 📰 

Meta Adopts New Deepfake Guidelines: Labels Over Takedowns

Meta has revised its policy on AI-generated and manipulated media, opting for more extensive labelling, including a "Made with AI" badge for deepfakes, rather than outright removal. This change, motivated by feedback from its Oversight Board, aims to enhance transparency and provide context, especially during a crucial election year globally. The strategy involves not removing manipulated content unless it breaches other community standards, moving towards an approach that balances the need for content moderation with freedom of expression concerns. These adjustments respond to legal and regulatory pressures, including the EU's Digital Services Act, and come ahead of significant elections, such as the upcoming US presidential race.

Read More At: TechCrunch

AI and Humanity's Future: Diverse Perspectives

The debate over artificial intelligence's potential to end humanity garners varied opinions among leading AI experts. Yann LeCun, a notable figure in AI at Meta, views the "probability of doom" (p(doom)) as less than 0.01%, a figure more optimistic than the likelihood of an asteroid impact. In stark contrast, Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, two other pioneering AI researchers, estimate this risk at 10% and 20% respectively within the next two decades. Roman Yampolskiy, a prominent AI safety scientist, holds a grim view, believing AI's threat to humanity is nearly certain at 99.999999%. Elon Musk, in a recent seminar, aligned with Hinton's risk estimate but emphasized the potential benefits of AI, advocating for development with caution. He suggested ensuring AI's honesty could mitigate risks, challenging the more conservative stance of abandoning AI development altogether advocated by Yampolskiy.

Read More At: TechRadar

Ive and Altman's Innovative Leap into AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple design chief Jony Ive have joined forces to create a novel AI-powered personal device, seeking up to $1 billion in funding. Details on the device are scarce, but it won't resemble a smartphone, hinting at a possible wearable tech without a screen, inspired by Altman's investment in the Humane AI pin. With major venture capitalists and entities like SoftBank in discussions, this collaboration marks a significant move into uncharted AI device territory.

Read More At: Mac Rumors

YouTube's AI Training Policy Alert to OpenAI

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan issued a warning to OpenAI regarding the use of YouTube videos to train its AI models, like the new text-to-video tool Sora, stating it violates YouTube's terms. The controversy stems from OpenAI's unclear stance on whether Sora uses data from YouTube. This warning underscores the ongoing debate around AI training practices and content ownership, with OpenAI's competitors, like Google's Gemini model, navigating these waters by adhering strictly to permissions outlined in creators' licensing agreements.

Read More At: Engadget

🔨 AI Powered Tools 🔨 

A run down of the latest SaaS products and services which leverage AI to help you take back some time.

• Talkio - Providing users with AI tutors for a wide range of languages. These tutors offer realistic conversational experiences, premium voices across multiple dialects, and personalized feedback to help learners improve pronunciation and fluency.

• Yera - AI-powered platform designed to enhance customer support by offering deep insights into customer interactions. It stands out in the customer support industry by automatically analysing support tickets, categorizing and summarizing interactions, and highlighting key concerns and actionable insights.

• Webwave - AI-powered website builder that caters to both beginners and professionals in the web design industry. Its standout feature is the AI Website Builder, which enables users to create websites quickly and efficiently, sometimes in as little as 3 minutes, by simply describing their business.

🗞️ Other News Rollup 🗞️ 

Job Security in the age of AI - Learn to embrace AI and identify irreplaceable human elements to protect your career. Insights from a Spotify data scientist.

AI Job Cuts - Executives foresee AI leading to job reductions, but also acknowledge upskilling opportunities for employees.

Cooling Expert Joins Iceotope - Ex-Microsoft exec Christian Belady joins Iceotope to aid global expansion in AI server cooling solutions.

AI Talent War - EU scrutinizes Microsoft's AI team acquisition. Google and AWS join the AI talent competition.

User-Led AI Governance - Users should govern AI decisions for transparency and trust. Democracy in AI governance empowers users for control.

AI Training Data Dilemma - AI companies tackle data scarcity with YouTube transcriptions and legal hurdles, seeking innovative solutions for training.

Azure AI Search Upgrade - Microsoft enhances Azure AI Search for generative AI apps, supporting OpenAI and large language models like ChatGPT.

AI for Sensor Data - Archetype AI creates AI models like Newton to interpret sensor data in plain language, revolutionizing data analysis.

Training Data Revolution - Gretel's open source Text-to-SQL dataset revolutionizes AI training data access, empowering businesses with high-quality data.

AI NPCs in Today - Today's $5M funding for AI NPCs, unique storytelling, web3 integration, and NFTs. Alpha launch in 2025.

Link-Building Scam - Scammers leverage AI for convincing link-building scams, posing a growing threat to online publishers. Stay vigilant.

AI Property Consultant - Author shares journey of using AI and real estate data to create virtual property consultant.

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