AI News - May 14, 2023

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🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

  1. Google I/O, Google’s developer conference wraps up for 2023. Here is a list of AI related reveals:

    1. Google released a new Large Language Model (LLM) to compete with GPT-4 called PaLM-2. [Link]

    2. Google Bard gets smarter, including image and coding features. [Link] And Google is now making Bard available without a waitlist for its current LLM. [Link] Additionally, Bard is now available in both Korean and Japanese.

    3. Bard now supports multimodal inputs, such as graphical image input. [Link]

    4. Google announces plugins for Bard including Adobe Firefly’s generative AI software [Link]

    5. Google makes its tech to music LM public. [Link]

    6. Google’s Workspace software suite is getting an AI upgrade. [Link]

    7. Google releases Sidekick, a new tool to help generate AI prompts for users. [Link]

    8. Google launches a Github copilot competitor in Codey. [Link]

    9. Google upgrades its search engine with AI. [Link]

    10. Google upgrades its managed AI service, Vertex. [Link]

    11. Google announces Project Tailwind, An AI assisted tool to enhance note taking. [Link]

    12. Star Trek’s Universal translator a reality? Google announces new experimental Universal Translator tool. [Link]

    There’s more from Google, but, frankly, my mind is too exhausted from digesting these revelations to continue. :-)

  2. The US Department of Defense has issued a request for information (RFI) on how to protect its data sets in the AGI age. [Link]

  3. Palantir, the Palo Alto based software company that creates Intelligent Software Systems for the US DOD and other organizations announces a huge revenue boost and unprecedented demand for its products due to the addition of AI. [Link]

  4. OpenAI rival Anthropic releases a new version of their Generative AI Claude with the ability to support over 100,000 tokens. To put it in perspective, 100K tokens is about 75K words. This is a massive upgrade over its previous 9K token limit.
    [Link]

  5. Meta releases ImageBind, a new generative AI model capable of taking input from different sources. [Link]

  6. Spotify has removed tens of thousands of AI generated songs from its playlists. [Link]

  7. AI meets quantum computing. Using AI to generate quantum computing algorithms. [Link]

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