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| Here’s a look at today's AI briefing: - Meta launches updated AI chatbot across platforms.
- Google combines teams to speed up AI development.
- Stability AI cuts 10% of its staff after CEO exit.
- Pentagon successfully tests AI-controlled fighter jet.
- Survey: AI scams chosen as biggest concern.
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| 1 | | Meta's AI chatbot will now appear in the search bars of Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The company is rolling out its Meta AI assistant to millions of people worldwide. More: - The English-only bot can answer questions and provide web search results in real-time using Google and Bing.
- It's now available in over a dozen countries, including the U.S., Australia, Canada, and Singapore.
- Alongside the search bar, the bot will appear in the main Facebook feed and the messaging inboxes of Meta's apps.
- The chatbot is now available on a website, Meta.ai, where users can ask it to generate images including animated GIFs.
Zoom out: - The assistant is built on Meta's newly announced large language model, Llama 3.
- With the update, Meta AI is now "the most intelligent freely available assistant," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
- The open-source Llama 3 is currently available in 8B and 70B parameter models,
- According to Meta, both systems beat similarly sized models like Google's Gemma and Anthropic's Claude 3 in certain benchmarking tests.
- Meta plans to release more Llama 3 models with features like multilingual conversation in the coming months.
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| 2 | | To speed up AI development, Google will merge its DeepMind and Research teams working on AI models, according to CEO Sundar Pichai. The company is also moving its Responsible AI teams from research to DeepMind, giving more control to the latter's CEO, Demis Hassabis. More: - DeepMind, the company's flagship AI unit, developed Google's most advanced AI model, Gemini.
- Google will now consolidate its models, research, and responsible AI teams under DeepMind.
- The move aims to accelerate and streamline the creation of its AI products and services, according to Pichai.
Zoom out: - Google also formed a unified "Platforms and Devices" team to manage all its Pixel products, Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, and Photos.
- Rick Osterloh, former SVP of devices and services, will lead the new team, which is expected to speed up AI integration across Google products.
- The team will integrate hardware, software, and AI efforts including search.
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| 3 | | Stability AI is cutting 10% of its staff, or about 20 people, as part of a restructuring effort. The company behind Stable Diffusion stated in an internal memo that it plans to "right-size" the business to pursue "a more sustainable path." More: - Affected employees, mostly in operations, were informed of their job cuts this week.
- Despite major fundraising, Stability has faced financial challenges with dwindling cash reserves as costs for computing power far outpace revenue.
- Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque resigned in March, days after several key researchers announced their departures.
- The company said Mostaque left to "pursue decentralized AI," though his exit occurred six months after a major investor called for Mostaque to resign.
Zoom out: - The cuts came a day after the U.K.-based company released its Stable Diffusion 3 text-to-image generator to more developers via an API.
- Certain users were also invited to the early release of its text- and image-generating chatbot, Stable Assistant Beta.
- The company recently launched the second version of its text-to-music generator, Stable Audio.
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| 4 | | An AI-controlled fighter jet successfully engaged in a "dogfight" against a human-piloted F-16. The Pentagon's test, conducted last year, was described as the "first-ever use of machine-learning-based autonomy in flight-critical systems." More: - After performing simulations, DARPA and the U.S. Air Force tested the "AI pilot" at California's Edwards Air Force Base in September.
- The AI system was installed on an X-62A VISTA. The jet successfully performed in-air maneuvers during the simulated dogfight against the human-controlled F-16.
- Human pilots onboard the X-62A, capable of disabling the AI, never had to engage the safety switch during the test.
- Both planes executed defensive and offensive maneuvers, including close "nose-to-nose engagements," bringing them within 2,000 feet at speeds of 1,200 mph.
Zoom out: - DARPA, the Pentagon's R&D agency, has completed 21 test flights, with plans to continue testing through 2024.
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| 5 | | AI scams were chosen as the biggest concern about the technology, according to a Microsoft survey of nearly 17,000 online users. Scammers can use AI to impersonate customer support agents, businesses, or even family and friends, to fraudulently request money or personal information. 
What the numbers show: The survey found that 71% of people in 17 countries were concerned about AI-related scams. Almost equally worrying were deepfakes and sexual or online abuse using AI. AI hallucinations ranked fourth, followed by data privacy issues and bias amplification. The bigger picture: Overall, 87% of respondents expressed some level of concern about the potential AI problems. | | | |
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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 Beth Duckett | |
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