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May 2023 AI News Review (1)

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May 1

1. Microsoft's Edge browser is further promoting its Bing Chat chatbot, which has been integrated into the right-click menu in the latest Canary version. Users will be able to send the crossed words to the chatbot by swiping with the mouse in the Edge browser and selecting "Ask Bing Chat" in the context menu.

May 2

1. Heavy! Turing Award winner and father of deep learning Geoffrey Hinton left Google, Hinton resigned in April to talk freely about the risks of artificial intelligence, and in media interviews, Hinton even expressed regret for his life's work.

May 2023 AI News Review (1)

2. A former AI engineer at Google recently broke the news that the company once developed an artificial intelligence dialogue system that can think for itself, but later deleted it because of concerns about its security. He also said that Google currently has more advanced artificial intelligence technology that has not been disclosed.

3. Microsoft's Azure Cloud Services division plans to sell a version of ChatGPT running on dedicated cloud servers whose data will be kept separate from other customer data, similar to the "private version" of ChatGPT, but potentially 10 times the price of the regular version.

May 3

1. Samsung this week introduced a new policy that requires employees not to use generative AI such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Bard in the workplace.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence subsidiary, said Tuesday that general artificial intelligence (AGI) may be possible within a few years.

3. The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Hollywood has made Hollywood screenwriters feel threatened like never before, and they fear that AI will infringe their creativity and copyright, or even replace their jobs. In order to protect their interests, they launched a strike action this Monday to demand restrictions on the use of AI in the field of screenwriting.

May 4

1. Heavy! Microsoft announced that New Bing Chat is now officially in open preview mode and can be used by anyone. No queues, no plugins, no download of beta browsers, now Bing Chat in just 3 steps: open the Edge browser, go to the Bing.com, and click the "Chat" button at the top.

May 2023 AI News Review (1)

2.AI Drawing tool Midjourney has released its latest version 5.1, which claims to bring users higher quality and more personalized AI artwork.

3. The domestic online design tool "Instant Design" announced that its AI design tool "Instant AI" will be fully open for testing from today, no longer need internal test code, and everyone can experience the AI design tool.

May 5

1. Google today announced the expansion of the Trusted Tester test by 10 times, inviting more users to participate in testing Google Workspace's AIGC features. Users can click "Labs in Google Workspace" to join, but it's still limited to U.S. users.

2. Microsoft is working with AMD to jointly develop artificial intelligence processors to ensure the supply of artificial intelligence processor chips. In the cooperation, Microsoft has provided financial support for AMD, and the two parties are cooperating to develop an artificial intelligence processor codenamed "Athena" and developed by Microsoft.

3.36 fluorine report, Xueersi is conducting the research and development of self-developed mathematical large model, named MathGPT, for global mathematics enthusiasts and scientific research institutions, with the problem solving and lecture algorithm in the field of mathematics as the core, has achieved phased results, and will launch a product-level application based on the self-developed large model within this year.

4. NetEase Youdao released a spoiler video of the AI speaking teacher developed based on the "child day" large model, according to the video content, NetEase Youdao AI speaking teacher can not only provide flexible practice scenarios, but also play a variety of roles according to user needs, and guide users to conduct multiple rounds of dialogue.

May 6

1. The iFLYTEK Xinghuo cognitive large model results conference was held in Hefei, Anhui Province as scheduled. Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of iFLYTEK, and Liu Cong, President of the Research Institute, released the iFLYTEK Spark Cognitive Big Model, measured the seven core capabilities of the large model on site, and released the application results of four major industries: education, office, automotive, and digital employees.

2. NVIDIA recently issued a press release showing the new texture compression algorithm Neural Texture Compression (NTC). Compared with the block compression algorithm, the video resolution can be increased by 4 times and the memory consumption can be reduced by 30%.

May 7

1. Huawei disclosed that its "Ascend AI" has developed more than 1,100 partners so far, and has incubated and adapted more than 30 mainstream large models based on Ascend, and 25 cities have built AI computing centers based on Ascend, of which 14 have been launched and fully operational.

May 2023 AI News Review (1)

2. Taoyun Technology launched the first domestic children's cognitive large model - Alpha Egg Children's Cognitive Large Model was officially released. Based on this model, the Alpha Egg Children's GPT robot made a wonderful appearance, bringing a new interactive experience to children in terms of practicing expression, shaping emotional intelligence, initiating creation, and aiding learning.

3. Amazon plans to use ChatGPT technology to transform Alexa to make voice assistants smart and interesting.

4. According to the Wall Street Journal, a leaked document within Google shows that Google plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to transform search engines to make search results more "personalized," "diverse," and "visual," changes that are expected to roll out this year.

The development of 5.AI technology has attracted the attention and concern of many people, including the famous investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren. Buffett. At the company's annual conference in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett likened powerful AI technology to an atomic bomb, arguing that it could have catastrophic consequences for people.

May 8

1. Visual China's website vcg.com launched AIGC new features - creative tools based on generative AI technology. Users can use AI creative tools - model conversion and illustration conversion functions to recreate copyright images online, so as to obtain better user experience and higher work efficiency. However, the AI creative tool is still in beta and is only available to some signed customers.

2. Leo Digital announced the launch of the AIGC ecological platform "LEO AIAD" for marketing industry-wide through various modes such as open source ecology, cooperative development, and independent research and development, and reached a cooperation with Altron Lightyear to further expand the optimization ability of artificial intelligence to productivity from graphics and text to the creation of video content.

3. Lu Qi, founder and CEO of Qiji Chuangtan and former global executive vice president of Microsoft, attended the Beijing sharing meeting of Qiji Chuangtan, and delivered a keynote speech entitled "New Paradigm, New Era and New Opportunities", focusing on the emergence of OpenAI, Lu Qi pointed out that the development opportunity in the field of large models is huge, the only two in the world, and it is necessary to catch up.

May 9

1. According to SimilarWeb statistics, ChatGPT reached a new high of 1.76 billion global visits last month (April), surpassing other international search engines such as Bing and duckduckgo, and reaching 2% of Google and 60% of Baidu. At present, in addition to Google, only China's Baidu and Russia's Yandex remain.

2. Generate a picture model following the text DALL. After E, OpenAI recently released Shap again. E model. Users can enter text that can be used to create realistic and diverse 3D models.

3. Douyin publishes platform specifications and industry initiatives on AI-generated content. Douyin has made relevant specifications for creators, anchors, users, merchants, advertisers and other platform ecological participants to apply generative artificial intelligence technology on Douyin.

4. Jurgen Schmidhuber, the father of LSTM, talks about the AI threat theory, he believes that AI will develop beyond human intelligence, there will be no great interest in humans, and humans will continue to benefit and use the tools developed by AI, calling for a moratorium on AI is misleading.

5. Baidu launched search for AI partners, users can free dialogue, AI painting and other content creation, Baidu search AI partner is Baidu's latest AI search dialogue tool based on Wenxin large model, currently in free testing. Users who have applied for Wen Xin can click the AI icon in the upper right corner of the desktop Baidu website or the mobile Baidu APP.

May 10

1.Meta has released a new open-source AI model, ImageBind, which integrates multiple data streams, including text, audio, visual data, temperature, and motion readings.

2. IBM unveiled IBM watsonx, an enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence and data platform, at its annual Think conference. The platform includes the next-generation AI platform "watsonx . AI", a data warehouse based on the open Lakehouse architecture "watsonx . data", and the AI governance toolkit "watsonx . Governance" three product sets.

3. Spotify, a well-known streaming music service, deleted tens of thousands of songs generated by artificial intelligence startup Boomy, hoping to respond to growing traffic fraud and other problems by increasing censorship.