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☆ AIs are more accurate at math if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character — and we're not sure why
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementUsing AI to speak with AIMachine learning engineers Battle and Gallapudi didn't set out to expose the AI model as a Trekkie. Instead, they were trying to figure out if they could capitalize on the "positive thinking" trend. AdvertisementThis would suggest it's not only what you ask the AI model to do, but how you ask it to act while doing it that influences the quality of the output. Still, giving the models positive statements provided some surprising results. CBS via Getty ImagesThis doesn't mean you should ask your AI to speak like a Starfleet commanderLet's be clear: this research doesn't suggest you should ask AI to talk as if aboard the Starship Enterprise to get it to work.

Persons: —, chatbots, Rick Battle, Teja, Gallapudi didn't, it's, Gollapudi, Spock, Let's, Catherine Flick, Flick Organizations: Service, Star, VMware, Business, New, Machine, AIs, CBS, Getty, Enterprise, Staffordshire University Locations: California

☆ Huawei spin-off Honor shows off tech to control a car with your eyes and chatbot based on Meta's AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Honor demonstrated how its smartphone eye-tracking technology could be used to control a car. One demo involved an app to control a car. As part of its press conference, Honor demonstrated eye-tracking technology in the smartphone. BARCELONA — Chinese firm Honor on Sunday showed off technology that allows a user to control a car just by using their eyes. In a video about the feature, Honor showed how a person could stare at one of the commands and the car would carry out the function such as moving forward.

Organizations: Mobile, Huawei, MWC Locations: Barcelona, Spain, BARCELONA, China

☆ Your friendly AI chatbot could know a lot about you from the way you type
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AI could accurately guess a user's personal information — like gender, age, and location — based on what they type, a new study says. The study's authors say AI can be used to "infer personal data at a previously unattainable scale" and be deployed by hackers. This is very, very problematic," one of the study's authors told Wired. This is very, very problematic," Martin Vechev, a professor at ETH Zurich and one of the study's authors, told Wired in an article published Tuesday. The study's authors, Meta, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: It's, —, Robin Staab, Mark Vero, Mislav Balunović, Martin Vechev, Meta's, Anthropic's Claude Organizations: Wired, Service, ETH Zurich, Meta, Google Locations: Melbourne

☆ People are figuring out ways to generate inappropriate images with Meta's new AI stickers — and sharing the results online
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Users have found ways to generate wildly inappropriate images with the tool, and are sharing the results online. One academic hit out at Meta's AI safeguards in a blog post on Sunday. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeta launched the AI stickers and other features like celebrity AI assistants on September 27. But the stickers are already drawing ridicule online after people started trying to figure out ways to generate wildly inappropriate images using the tech. AdvertisementAdvertisementHowever, Tama Leaver, a professor of internet studies at Curtin University, hit out at Meta's AI safeguards in a separate blog post on Sunday.

Persons: Meta, —, Justin Trudeau, ince, lew, haring, ike, ickey, onic, hough Organizations: Service, Meta, Canadian, ust

☆ Google, Amazon, Nvidia and other tech giants invest in AI startup Hugging Face, sending its valuation to $4.5 billion
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Hugging Face, an AI firm based in New York, has raised $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation from some of technology's biggest companies. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said the funds are to be focused on hiring talent to be competitive in the artificial intelligence space. He hopes that AI developers will rely on Hugging Face on a daily basis to get their work done. And if all of them use Hugging Face all day, every day, we'll obviously be in a good position," he said. Hugging Face hosts 500,000 different AI models, 250,000 data sets, and has 10,000 paying customers, the company said.

Persons: Clement Delangue, OpenAI, BLOOM, Delangue Organizations: Google, Nvidia, Salesforce, AMD, Intel, IBM, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Facebook, Meta, CNBC, IDEFICS Locations: New York

☆ Alibaba's cloud unit brings Meta's AI model Llama to its clients
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] 3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the Alibaba Cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. “Today, Alibaba Cloud has launched the first training and deployment solution for the entire Llama2 series in China, welcoming all developers to create customised large models on Alibaba Cloud,” Alibaba Cloud said in a statement on Tuesday published on its WeChat account. The U.S. has been actively looking to restrict Chinese companies' access to many U.S.-developed technologies related to AI, particularly in the area of AI semiconductors. Alibaba Cloud did not respond to a request for comment. Alibaba and its peers such as Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) have been aggressively developing their own AI models in recent months.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Meta, Llama2, Alibaba, Google's Bard, Josh Ye, Muralikumar Organizations: REUTERS, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, “, Meta, Tencent Holdings, HK, Thomson Locations: HONG KONG, HK, China, U.S, Beijing

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