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☆ A new Google AI-powered weather model could be key to the future of your forecast – but there’s a catch
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Mary Gilbert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

A big problem to solveGenCast is a critical advancement in modeling, but like any other weather forecast model, it isn’t perfect. Jeffrey Collins/AP Len Frisbee dumps a wheelbarrow of dirt as he helps with cleanup in Hot Springs, North Carolina, on October 1. Marco Bello/Reuters Linda Bandy, left, and Carissa Sheehan clean up inside the International Moulding frame shop in Morganton, North Carolina. Jonathan Drake/Reuters Floodwaters are seen in Asheville in this image released by the North Carolina Department of Transportation on September 28. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Hurricane Helene is seen in a satellite photo on September 26.

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☆ Opinion | Three Global Challenges That Will Shape Trump’s Legacy
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Thomas L. Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald Trump left the White House nearly four years ago. Given his self-confidence, I suspect he is now thinking: “What could be so different? What I saw and heard exposed me to three giant, shifting tectonic plates that will have profound implications for the new administration. The most significant geopolitical eventIn just the last two months, the Israeli military has inflicted a defeat on Iran that approaches its 1967 Six Day War defeat of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Let’s review:Over the past few decades, Iran built a formidable threat network that seemed to put Israel into an octopuslike grip.

Persons: Donald Trump, I’ve, Israel Organizations: White House, United Locations: Tel Aviv, United Arab Emirates, London, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon

YouTube will also integrate generative AI text and image output into an “Inspiration” feature for creators, which is intended to feed them suggestions and examples for video content. Mohan said that 92% of YouTube creators already use AI tools. The new AI video creation tool is called “Veo.” Creators will input text prompts to create AI images, which can then become the basis of the six-second clips. Mohan teased it with an AI-generated video of a dog and a sheep becoming friends. YouTube is the latest platform to announce AI-generated video capabilities, following demos from OpenAI of their text-to-video technology Sora.

Persons: Neal Mohan, Mohan, ”, Sarah Ali, Sora, Ali, DeepMind, Vivien Lewit, monetize, livestream Organizations: YouTube, NBC News, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Shorts Locations: Google’s Manhattan

☆ Defeated by A.I., a Legend in the Board Game Go Warns: Get Ready for What’s Next
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Daisuke Wakabayashi | Jin Yu Young | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Lee Saedol was the finest Go player of his generation when he suffered a decisive loss, defeated not by a human opponent but by artificial intelligence. Mr. Lee was beaten by AlphaGo, an A.I. The stunning upset, in 2016, made headlines around the world and looked like a clear sign that artificial intelligence was entering a new, profoundly unsettling era. “I am very surprised because I have never thought I would lose,” Mr. Lee said at the time in a post-match news conference. “I didn’t know that AlphaGo would play such a perfect Go.”

Persons: Lee Saedol, Lee, AlphaGo, Google’s, ” Mr, ” Organizations: Go

☆ Google shows off how AI Gmail, Photos and shopping will work
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A day after OpenAI impressed with a startlingly improved ChatGPT AI model, Google showed off its vision for how AI will improve the products that billions of people use every day. Google showed how it wants its AI products to become a bigger part of users’ lives by sharing information, interacting with others, finding objects around the house, making schedules, shopping and using an Android device. Simply put, Google wants its AI to be part of everything you do. Google CEO Sundar Pichai showed off various new features powered by its latest AI model Gemini 1.5 Pro. One new feature, called Ask Photos, allows users to search photos for deeper insights, such as asking when your daughter learned to swim or recall what your license plate number is, by looking through saved pictures.

Persons: OpenAI, Sundar Pichai, Pichai, —, ”, Google’s, Jacob Bourne, it’s Organizations: CNN, Google, Gmail, Google Lens, Astra, “

Now, frontier AI has become the latest buzzword as concerns grow that the emerging technology has capabilities that could endanger humanity. The debate comes to a head Wednesday, when British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosts a two-day summit focused on frontier AI. In a speech last week, Sunak said only governments — not AI companies — can keep people safe from the technology’s risks. Frontier AI is shorthand for the latest and most powerful systems that go right up to the edge of AI’s capabilities. That makes frontier AI systems “dangerous because they’re not perfectly knowledgeable,” Clune said.

Persons: —, Rishi Sunak, It’s, Kamala Harris, Ursula von der Leyen, Google’s, Alan Turing, Sunak, ”, Jeff Clune, Clune, Elon, Sam Altman, He’s, Joe Biden, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua, ” Clune, “, it's, Francine Bennett, Ada Lovelace, Deb Raji, ” Raji, it’s, shouldn’t, Raji, DeepMind, Anthropic, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, ’, Carsten Jung, Jill Lawless Organizations: British, U.S, European, University of British, AI Safety, European Union, Clune, Ada, Ada Lovelace Institute, House, University of California, ” Tech, Microsoft, Institute for Public Policy Research, Regulators, Associated Press Locations: Bletchley, University of British Columbia, State, EU, Brussels, China, U.S, Beijing, London, Berkeley

☆ Google launches watermarks for AI-generated images
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —In an effort to help prevent the spread of misinformation, Google on Tuesday unveiled an invisible, permanent watermark on images that will identify them as computer-generated. The technology, called SynthID, embeds the watermark directly into images created by Imagen, one of Google’s latest text-to-image generators. In recent months, an AI-generated image of Pope Francis in a puffer jacket went viral and AI-generated images of former President Donald Trump getting arrested were widely shared before he was indicted. With the announcement of SynthID, Google joins a growing number of startups and Big Tech companies that are trying to find solutions. The tech company also announced that every AI-generated image created by Google will carry a markup in the original file to “give context” if the image is found on another website or platform.

Persons: Imagen, ”, Google’s, Pope Francis, Donald Trump, Vera Jourova, –, “, Dall, ChatGPT Organizations: New, New York CNN, Google, Vertex, European Commission, Meta, Microsoft, Big Tech, Adobe Locations: New York, EU

☆ AI investment is booming. How much is hype?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The investment into Mistral AI is just one of many this year by venture capitalists jostling for a seat aboard the AI rocketship. In the first six months of 2023, they plowed $15.2 billion into generative AI companies globally, according to Pitchbook data. The bulk of this sum comes from Microsoft (MSFT)’s $10 billion investment, announced in January, in OpenAI, the developer of popular generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. But even excluding Microsoft’s bumper deal, the value of VC investments in generative AI was up by almost 58% compared with the same period in 2022. “Buying a ‘dot-ai’ domain, and claiming to be an AI company… doesn’t really make you an AI company,” Jacobs told CNN.

Persons: Antoine Moyroud, wasn’t, ”, Arthur Mensch, Nathan Laine, hasn’t, ” Mostaque, jostling, Moyroud, ’, ’ “, “, ” Moyroud, It’s, Jaap Arriens, Goldman Sachs, Stocks, Mike Reynolds, Reynolds, —, “ It’s, ” Reynolds, ” Jordan Jacobs, … doesn’t, ” Jacobs Organizations: London CNN, Lightspeed Venture Partners, CNN, Mistral, Viva Tech, Bloomberg, Getty, Stability, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Nasdaq, Cisco, Radical Ventures Locations: French, Paris, California, OpenAI, —, Toronto

☆ Opinion | It’s the End of Computer Programming As We Know It. (And I Feel Fine.)
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Farhad Manjoo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

could transform computer programming from a rarefied, highly-compensated occupation into a widely accessible skill that people can easily pick up and use as part of their jobs across a wide variety of fields. In situations where one needs a “simple” program … those programs will, themselves, be generated by an A.I. Welsh’s argument, which ran earlier this year in the house organ of the Association for Computing Machinery, carried the headline, “The End of Programming,” but there’s also a way in which A.I. could mark the beginning of a new kind of programming — one that doesn’t require us to learn code but instead transforms human-language instructions into software. Everyone is a programmer now — you just have to say something to the computer.”

Persons: —, DeepMind, ” Matt Welsh, there’s, “, ” Jensen Huang Organizations: Google, Apple, Association for Computing Machinery, Nvidia Locations: Google’s, Taiwan

In December, Elon Musk became angry about the development of artificial intelligence and put his foot down. He had learned of a relationship between OpenAI, the start-up behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, and Twitter, which he had bought in October for $44 billion. Mr. Musk believed the A.I. So Mr. Musk cut OpenAI off from Twitter’s data, they said. Since then, Mr. Musk has ramped up his own A.I.

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