Berlin-based Parloa, which develops AI customer service agents for Booking.com and others, raised $350M at a $3B valuation, taking its total funding to $560M+
Berlin-founded group raises $350mn as it looks to expand its AI customer service agents — Florian Müller in Frankfurt and Melissa Heikkilä in London
Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push — Melissa Heikkilä in London …
An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and fewer than 4% came from Africa
that's reshaping the infrastructures of our world in ways that reflect the interests of those big corporations.” Niall Firth / @niallfirth : New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating...
A look at Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which was built by Google Labs and has gone viral for its AI-generated “deep dive” podcasts with two hosts
Thoughts on a new feature at NotebookLM that turns your sources … Roger Dooley / Forbes : How To Create An AI Podcast About Anything In Seconds With NotebookLM Scott Rosenberg / Axios : Google's AI po...
Midjourney temporarily bans some words about the human reproductive system to prevent generating shocking or gory images, while the company “improves things”
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review :
Artists say they risk losing income as people use their names as distinctive style prompts in text-to-image AI art generators for commercial purposes
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A look at the privacy concerns raised by OpenAI's GPT-3, Google's LaMDA, Meta's OPT-175B, and other large language models trained on troves of personal data
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @garymarcus , @eileenguo , @zcobb , and @hypervisible Tweets: Gary Marcus / @garymarcus : LLMs are an incorrigible mix of misinformation and privacy...