Google Cloud has announced a new partnership with Mayo Clinic that will introduce a new Artificial Intelligence tool that aims to improve the efficiency of healthcare throughout the United States.
The initial focus of the collaboration will establish a new search tool powered by Google Cloud’s Generative AI software that would improve clinical workflows by making it easier for doctors and researchers to quickly track down patient information, the tech giant said. — Read More
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StyleDrop: Text-To-Image Generation in Any Style
We present StyleDrop that enables the generation of images that faithfully follow a specific style, powered by Muse, a text-to-image generative vision transformer. StyleDrop is extremely versatile and captures nuances and details of a user-provided style, such as color schemes, shading, design patterns, and local and global effects. StyleDrop works by efficiently learning a new style by fine-tuning very few trainable parameters (less than 1% of total model parameters), and improving the quality via iterative training with either human or automated feedback. Better yet, StyleDrop is able to deliver impressive results even when the user supplies only a single image specifying the desired style. An extensive study shows that, for the task of style tuning text-to-image models, Styledrop on Muse convincingly outperforms other methods, including DreamBooth and Textual Inversion on Imagen or Stable Diffusion. — Read More
What runs ChatGPT? Inside Microsoft’s AI supercomputer
MEGABYTE, Meta AI’s New Revolutionary Model Architecture, Explained
Unlocking the true potential of content generation in natural language processing (NLP) has always been a challenge. Traditional models struggle with long sequences, scalability, and sluggish generation speed.
But fear not, as Meta AI brings forth MEGABYTE – a groundbreaking model architecture that revolutionizes content generation. In this blog, we will dive deep into the secrets behind MEGABYTE’s potential, its innovative features, and how it tackles the limitations of current approaches. — Read More
Meta’s AI just became the first to outwit human players in Diplomacy
Is there any strategy or alliance too complex for its ruthless intelligence?
Meta AI made a groundbreaking announcement with the launch of CICERO – the first-ever AI (artificial intelligence) capable of winning at Diplomacy, a multiplayer strategy game that calls for mutual trust, compromise, and teamwork. This marks a significant milestone in AI evolution.
Meta stated, ‘AI has come a long way, demonstrating its capabilities by beating grandmasters at chess, Alpha Go, and even poker.’ With CICERO, they have achieved building something that can apply groundbreaking intelligence across different tasks.
“CICERO moves AI from the gaming table into real-world applications.” — Read More
Preserving the World’s Language Diversity Through AI
Many of the world’s languages are in danger of disappearing, and the limitations of current speech recognition and generation technology will only accelerate this trend. We want to make it easier for people to access information and use devices in their preferred language, and today we’re announcing a series of artificial intelligence (AI) models that could help them do just that.
Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100 — more than 10 times as many as before — and can also identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than before.
… We’re open-sourcing our models and code so that others in the research community can build on our work and help preserve the world’s languages and bring the world closer together. — Read More
In Battle Over A.I., Meta Decides to Give Away Its Crown Jewels
The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous.
In February, Meta made an unusual move in the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence: It decided to give away its A.I. crown jewels.
The Silicon Valley giant, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, had created an A.I. technology, called LLaMA, that can power online chatbots. But instead of keeping the technology to itself, Meta released the system’s underlying computer code into the wild. Academics, government researchers and others who gave their email address to Meta could download the code once the company had vetted the individual.
Essentially, Meta was giving its A.I. technology away as open-source software — computer code that can be freely copied, modified and reused — providing outsiders with everything they needed to quickly build chatbots of their own.
… Its actions contrast with those of Google and OpenAI, the two companies leading the new A.I. arms race. — Read More
Apple’s new ‘Personal Voice’ feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes
As part of its preview of iOS 17 accessibility updates coming this year, Apple has announced a pair of new features called Live Speech and Personal Voice. Live Speech allows users to type what they want to say and have it be spoken out.
Personal Voice, on the other hand, is a way for people who are at risk of losing their ability to speak to create and save a voice that sounds like them. Apple says it’s designed for people at risk of losing their ability to speak, such as those with a recent diagnosis of ALS. Read More
Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft
AI is one of the deepest platform shifts ever, says Google’s CEO, and he’s not worried about being first.
Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. We spoke the day after Google I/O, the company’s big developer conference, where Sundar introduced new generative AI features in virtually all of the company’s products.
It’s an important moment for Google, which invented a lot of the core technology behind the current AI moment. The company is very quick to point out that the “T” in ChatGPT stands for transformer, the large language model technology first invented at Google, but OpenAI and others have been first to market with generative AI products, and OpenAI has partnered with Microsoft on a new version of Bing that feels like the first real competitor to Google Search in a long time. I wanted to know what Sundar thinks of this moment and, in particular, what he thinks of the future of Search, which is the heart of Google’s business. — Read More
PaLM2
When you look back at the biggest breakthroughs in AI over the last decade, Google has been at the forefront of so many of them. Our groundbreaking work in foundation models has become the bedrock for the industry and the AI-powered products that billions of people use daily. As we continue to responsibly advance these technologies, there’s great potential for transformational uses in areas as far-reaching as healthcare and human creativity.
… Building on this work, today we’re introducing PaLM 2, our next generation language model. PaLM 2 is a state-of-the-art language model with improved multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities.
… At I/O today, we announced over 25 new products and features powered by PaLM 2. That means that PaLM 2 is bringing the latest in advanced AI capabilities directly into our products and to people — including consumers, developers, and enterprises of all sizes around the world. Read More
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