🚨 Meta is concerned about Deepfakes, and demands standards.
Plus: Is China's Strategic Leap into Chiplet Technology the Future of Semiconductors?
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Meta is concerned about AI Deepfakes and demands Industry-Wide Standards.
Is China's Strategic Leap into Chiplet Technology the Future of Semiconductors?
The OpenAI Startup Fund Aimed for Positive Impact.
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🤔 What Does that even Mean? Term of the Day (Time Series Analysis)
💰 Follow the Money
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❓Quiz of the Day
Which of these tasks is a chatbot MOST commonly used for?
A) Performing surgery
B) Driving cars
C) Customer service
D) Cooking meals
Give us your answer in the comments: The right answer will be given in the next newsletter
📰 AI News and Trends
Ikea launches an AI-powered assistant in the ChatGPT Store (Ingka)
OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3 (TheVerge)
Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Service is now generally available (CB)
Boston Dynamics robot Atlas is getting stronger and more precise (Ars)
Google lays off AI training team to cut costs (RofW)
🌐 Other Tech news
Bluesky, the X competitor, is now open for anyone to join (TC)
YouTube now gets 1 billion hours of watch time on TVs each day (TubeFilter)
Seriously, Adam Neumann Tries to Buy Back WeWork and has backers (WSJ)
Sports Streaming is hard, maybe unity is the answer. Warner, Fox, Disney to Launch Streaming Sports Joint Venture (Variety)
Midjourney hires ex-Apple Vision Pro engineer for hardware push (TechAsia)
Meta is concerned about AI Deepfakes and demands Industry-Wide Standards
Meta is advocating for standardized labels on AI-generated content to combat misinformation on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. Spearheaded by Nick Clegg, Meta's initiative aims to foster transparency as AI tools increasingly produce realistic photos, videos, and audio.
By endorsing technological standards like IPTC and C2PA, Meta intends to make it easier for social media networks to identify and label AI-created content, alerting users to its artificial origins. This effort, particularly relevant in the context of the upcoming U.S. presidential election, seeks to mitigate the spread of fake content that could misinform voters. The move reflects Meta's broader commitment to ensuring the authenticity of digital media amidst the rapid advancement of AI technology and the challenges it poses in maintaining content integrity online.
Answer: Picture “A” is AI-generated. Did you get it right? Hard to spot AI-generated images, hence the need for labeling.
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Is China's Strategic Leap into Chiplet Technology the Future of Semiconductors?
China is aggressively investing in chiplet technology to bypass US sanctions that limit its access to advanced semiconductor manufacturing technologies. Chiplets, which link several simpler chips to form a more complex system, offer China a loophole to enhance its tech capabilities despite restrictions. Semiconductors are crucial in today's tech landscape, serving as the core of electronics and AI, making dominance in this field vital for global competitiveness and technological independence.
In 2023, China ramped up investments in chiplet research and startups, aiming for technological self-sufficiency and global competitiveness. This strategy could lower production costs, increase reliability, and facilitate rapid innovation in semiconductor manufacturing, crucial for advancing in the post–Moore's Law era. Despite the potential to circumvent technological constraints and propelling innovation, challenges like advanced packaging, standardization, and integration complexities remain. China's push into chiplets highlights the global race for semiconductor supremacy, emphasizing the strategic importance of this sector for economic and security interests worldwide. - Also Check Designing Chips Is Getting Harder. These Engineers Say Chatbots and AI Can Help.
The OpenAI Startup Fund Aimed for Positive Impact.
The OpenAI Startup Fund, closely linked to but independent from OpenAI, recently bolstered its investment arsenal with a $10 million injection via a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) from two anonymous backers. This move comes on the heels of a robust $175 million fundraising effort last May, aimed at driving AI companies toward a global positive impact.
With strategic investments like $80 million in legal tech pioneer Harvey and $70 million in Ambience Healthcare, the fund's latest financial strategy, executed on Jan. 30, signals a nimble approach to fueling innovative AI ventures. The involvement of key figures Ian Hathaway and Bobby Wu in this SPV raises intriguing questions about the fund's forward strategy, especially following its substantial capital raise less than a year ago.
💰 Follow The Money
$70M obtained by Ambience Healthcare, a Ca-based provider of an AI operating system for healthcare organizations.
$22M invested in Colossyan, a London, UK-based AI video for workplace learning company.
$16M raised by Jua to build a foundational AI model for the natural world, starting with the weather.
$4M obtained by Truewind, a San Francisco startup that is focused on using AI to streamline accounting and financial analysis tasks.
$2.3M snatched by Rider Dome, a Singapore-based company providing an AI-driven safety solution for motorcycle fleets and riders.
🤔 What Does that even Mean? Term of the Day
Time Series Analysis: A method used in statistics and machine learning to analyze a sequence of data points collected over time.
Example: A retail company analyzes monthly sales data over several years to forecast future sales. Using time series analysis, they detect seasonal trends, growth patterns, and cyclical fluctuations, which help them make informed decisions on stock levels, marketing strategies, and future expansion plans.
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Quiz of The Day Correct Answer is:
“C”
Nancy Gilliland. My answer is B, Augmenter Reality
The Meta is concerned and demands story is wonderful unintended comedy on their part. Their reputation in all things ethics, data protection, filtering out disinformation, and protecting children is several notches below pond scum.