🤯 Using AI to read your mind
PLUS: CNET making leadership changes due to AI 📰
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🤯 Using AI to read your mind
📰 CNET making leadership changes due to AI
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🤯 Using AI to read your mind
Researchers presented a new method for reconstructing high-resolution images from human brain activity (measured using fMRI) using Stable Diffusion. With Stable Diffusion, the computational cost of diffusion models is reduced while preserving their high generative performance.
Although the paper isn’t peer-reviewed (yet) and is not exactly the type of mind-reading fit for sci-fi films, results show that this framework can reconstruct images with high fidelity without additional training or fine-tuning complex deep-learning models.
Pretty mind-blowing stuff.
Read more: Research Paper
📰 CNET making leadership changes due to AI
Has any publication created more AI-related headlines in recent weeks than CNET?
Connie Guglielmo, CNET's longtime editor-in-chief, has stepped down from her role and will now be a senior vice president of AI content strategy and editor-at-large. Adam Auriemma, the former editor-in-chief of another Red Ventures outlet, will take her place.
This move follows a series of layoffs at CNET and questions surrounding using AI tools. Guglielmo defended the use of AI tools but was met with public concern. An internal audit was conducted, and more than half of the articles were updated with corrections.
Former CNET staff have reported editorial independence being chipped away and employees being pressured to change their work to appease advertisers.
Red Ventures has not yet commented on the layoffs.
Read more: The Verge
🤑 AI Fundraising News
Transmetrics Closes €2.5 Million Convertible Round - a technology provider for the logistics industry
SpotDraft Raises $26 million - revolutionizing traditional legal work with an AI-powered contract management platform
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Adobe’s Scott Belsky talks generative AI — and why it’s not going to end up like web3 [TechCrunch] - Scott Belsky, chief product officer and executive vice president for Adobe’s Creative Cloud, believes that generative AI has the potential to reduce tasks from hours or minutes to seconds. (Read more)
Before/after of Corridor's latest AI video is wild - Corridor Digital recently released an AI-powered video that was shot on greenscreen and reskinned into anime by finetuning Stable Diffusion. (Read more)
CNET is doing big layoffs just weeks after AI-generated stories came to light - CNET is undergoing major layoffs, which includes several long-time employees, after news broke that the tech site had been using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to produce articles. (Read more)
Ford's new AI subsidiary wants to create hands-free, eyes-off driver assist systems - Ford has created a new subsidiary, Latitude AI, to develop automated driving technology to make traffic less stressful. (Read more)
🐦️ Tweet of the day
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How much does it cost to train a state-of-the-art foundational LLM?
$4M.
Facebook's 65B LLaMA trained for 21 days on 2048 Nvidia A100 GPUs. At $3.93/hr on GCP, that's a total of ~$4M.
Google's 540B PaLM was trained on 6144 v4 TPUs for 1200hrs. At $3.22/hr is a total of ~$27M
— Deedy (@debarghya_das)
2:49 AM • Feb 25, 2023
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