Summary Google Brain and Deepmind form Google Deepmind, with a new focus on developing large-scale multimodal models. Deepmind was founded in 2010 by Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg. The company was acquired by Google in 2014, but has remained largely independent of Google. In March, The Information reported that Google’s in-house AI team, Google Brain, …
Image: Ian Zelbo (Konzeptrendering) Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. Apple leaker Evan Blass claims to know a tester who has demoed Apple’s Mixed Reality headset several times. Evan Blass is known as a reliable source of Apple leaks. In recent …
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Picture: MIXED (Screenshot) Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. Consumers have spent $3 billion on VR apps, one market analyst and investor estimates. He sees a tipping point for the VR industry. Tipatat Chennavasin is a General Partner at Venture Reality …
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Summary Currently in beta, Adobe Firefly is billed as the ultimate AI solution for creators, allowing them to bring whatever is in their heads to life. One of the biggest pitfalls of AI image generators like Midjourney and DALL-E is that they cannot handle text. If you need a logo for your business or a …
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Summary Reddit plays a central role in training large language models. Now the social network is looking to monetize its data. OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 or GPT-4, Meta’s LLaMA, or Google’s Bard – large language models are trained on Internet text, and a significant portion of the training data comes from Reddit threads. The fact that this …
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Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. A new VR simulator is being used to prepare criminology students at Southern Illinois University for the workforce. Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Carbondale launched a new virtual reality training program that gives aspiring police …
Summary Microsoft presents NaturalSpeech 2, a text-to-speech model that is based on diffusion models and is capable of cloning any voice with just a short snippet of audio. Microsoft Research Asia and Microsoft Azure Speech developed NaturalSpeech 2 using a diffusion model that interacts with a Neural Audio codec, which compresses waveforms into vectors. The …
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Summary Following Italy, German data protection authorities are now also dealing with ChatGPT. The federal state data protection commissioners have jointly initiated an administrative procedure. “If personal data is used, including as training data for AI, there must be a legal basis,” Dieter Kugelmann, head of the German AI task force, told Tagesspiegel. “We have …
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Picture: Canon Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. Canon’s “Kokomo” brings more personality to VR meetings. Instead of VR headsets, the avatars “wear” scanned faces. Interact with a friend as if they were standing right in front of you. This is …
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Picture: Ready at Dawn Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. A report claimed that Meta’s VR game studios would be spared from the current layoffs. This turned out to be false. A report by Business Insider claimed that teams working Meta’s …
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