Real World AI: A Weekly Peek into Today’s Tech
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This week’s AI news highlights significant advancements and shifts in the tech landscape. Microsoft researchers have deemed their latest AI speech generator, VALL-E 2, too realistic for release due to potential risks. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory are collaborating on evaluations to ensure the safe use of multimodal AI models in scientific labs. In corporate news, Intuit announces a major restructuring, laying off 1,800 employees while planning to hire an equal number focused on AI initiatives.
Read on for more insights, including the top-performing AI stocks of 2024 and how AI is outshining humans in comedy writing!
AI in the News
Here are the 10 best-performing AI stocks of 2024 based on several factors: highest year-to-date returns among AI stocks, included in a major AI exchange-traded fund portfolio, covered by at least one Wall Street analyst, and a market capitalization of $2 billion or higher.
OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory are developing evaluations to understand how multimodal AI models can be used safely by scientists in laboratory settings.
Microsoft’s AI speech generator is too realistic to release, researchers say: VALL-E 2 poses too many ‘potential risks’ for it to become anything more than an experiment.
On Wednesday, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi announced in a letter to the company that it would be laying off 1,800 employees—about 10 percent of its workforce of around 18,000—while simultaneously planning to hire the same number of new workers as part of a major restructuring effort purportedly focused on AI.
Comedians, watch your backs! AI is funnier than humans, study claims – so, can you tell which of these jokes were written by a robot? Researchers say that ChatGPT is now able to write funnier jokes than humans, and participants preferred jokes written by AI almost 70 per cent of the time.
When Samsung showed off its latest smartphones in Paris this week, a big part of its focus was on the AI software inside rather than the foldable displays on the outside. The focus on AI is likely to continue when Google unveils its latest Pixel devices at an event next month and when Apple debuts new iPhones this fall.
The first Miss AI has been crowned — and she’s a Moroccan lifestyle influencer.
Cool Tools
Serra – AI-powered search engine for recruiters to find best-fit candidates.
Leo – AI phone assistants for non-technical people.
Wavve – Turns voice notes into easy-to-read text using AI.
Reeler – Generates videos from text prompts using AI.
Thanks for reading this week’s AI news roundup. Be sure to return next week as we dive into more groundbreaking advancements and intriguing updates in the AI world. See you soon!
