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| Here's a look at your daily AI briefing: - Google pauses Gemini's people generation ability after it produced historically inaccurate images.
- Reddit strikes AI training deal with Google.
- Jasper acquires Stability AI's image platform Clipdrop.
- DOJ appoints first AI officer.
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| 1 | | Google is pausing Gemini's people-generation feature after the AI model produced historically inaccurate images. Gemini has faced criticism for portraying historical figures, including the U.S. Founding Fathers and Nazi soldiers, as people of color, in what seemed to be an effort to counteract AI's racial biases. More: - Google announced today that it will pause Gemini's image generation of people and re-launch an upgraded version soon.
- The company acknowledged that Gemini has produced "inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions."
- The AI model does create images of many different people, which is "generally a good thing because people around the world use it."
- However, "it's missing the mark here," the company said.
Zoom out: - Gemini gained the ability to generate images earlier this month.
- Google launched the advanced AI model in late 2023 and recently renamed its ChatGPT chatbot competitor, Bard, to Gemini.
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| 2 | | Social media company Reddit will supply its content to Google for training AI models, according to Reuters sources. The companies have reportedly signed a deal worth approximately $60M a year. More: - The partnership grants Google access to Reddit's data API for real-time content from its platform.
- This will give Google "an efficient and structured way" to tap into the data, including a large corpus of posts from social media users, according to the companies.
- In return, Reddit will gain access to Google's AI-powered Vertex AI service in the cloud.
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| 3 | | Jasper, the San Francisco writing assistant startup, has acquired Stability AI's image platform, Clipdrop. Financial terms of the deal, announced today, were not disclosed. More: - Paris-based Clipdrop, which leverages open-source AI for generating and editing photos, was acquired by Stability AI last March.
- Timothy Young, Jasper's CEO, said the move allows the company to expand its product capabilities, AI talent, and European footprint.
- Clipdrop also advances Jasper's goal of being "the most comprehensive end-to-end marketing copilot in the industry," he said.
- For Stability AI, selling ClipDrop allows the company to focus on developing "cutting-edge open models," CEO Emad Mostaque said.
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| 4 | | A global survey of tech leaders revealed that 65% rated AI, including machine learning and natural language processing, as one of the top three most important tech areas of 2024. Survey respondents favored AI over extended reality, cloud computing, 5G networks, and electric vehicles, which rounded out the top five technologies 
What happened: The IEEE survey, "The Impact of Technology in 2024 and Beyond," polled 350 technology leaders from the U.S., China, the U.K., India, and Brazil on growth-driving technologies for the next year. What the numbers show: In addition to picking AI as a top 2024 tech, 54% of those surveyed ranked real-time cybersecurity and attack prevention as a leading AI use, followed by improving supply chain and warehouse automation and speeding up software development. The bigger picture: The report highlighted AI's growing role in telecom, manufacturing, and finance, as well as tasks like data optimization, task automation, and decision-making. According to the IEEE, key AI uses include cybersecurity, supply chain automation, software development, recruitment efficiency, and faster drug discovery. Unsurprisingly, the agency predicts AI usage in 2024 "will continue to expand and become widespread." | | | |
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| 5 | | The U.S. Department of Justice appointed Princeton professor Jonathan Mayer as its first AI officer, tasked with overseeing AI efforts, tech recruitment, and more. Mayer's expertise in the field will help make sure the DOJ "is prepared for both the challenges and opportunities that new technologies present," Attorney General Merrick Garland said. More: - Mayer, with a law degree and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford, is a Princeton assistant professor specializing in national security, consumer privacy, and criminal procedures
- At the DOJ, he will lead AI and cybersecurity efforts, recruit tech talent for the department, and serve as the chief science and technology adviser.
- Mayer will also lead the new Emerging Technology Board, advising the DOJ on AI ethics.
- President Biden's 2023 executive order on responsible AI use mandated the appointment of a chief AI officer.
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| 6 | | Stability AI has opened up an early waitlist for Stable Diffusion 3.0, its next-generation text-to-image creator. The SD3 model family varies from 800 million to 8 billion parameters, allowing them to run locally on different hardware ranging from smartphones to servers. More: - Since 2022, Stability has released a series of AI image-generation models, starting with Stable Diffusion 1.4 and now 3.
- The latest flagship model offers improved spelling, image quality, and performance with multi-subject prompts.
- SD3 is based on a new architecture and uses an updated "diffusion transformer" similar to OpenAI's Sora image generator.
- The new model, capable of multimodal understanding, can also interpret and generate videos.
- After testing, Stability will make SD3's weights freely available for local use.
- The waitlist and details of the model are available here.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is a contributing editor and writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters. She has written for publications including USA Today, the Arizona Business Gazette, and The Arizona Republic, where she received recognition with a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a First Amendment Award for collaborative reporting on state pension cost increases. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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