Tech companies are investing billions in AI but not seeing proper ROI. Microsoft’s $19B concerns analysts, potentially making AI appear pretty useless so far, while companies are using the “it’s a long-term investment” argument.
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Microsoft’s AI Boss Thinks Copying from the Web is Just Fine (It’s Not)
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman claims anything on the web is fair game for copying, ignoring basic copyright principles.
Microsoft Discovers a Sneaky Way to Bypass AI Chatbot Guardrails
Microsoft has discovered a “skeleton key” jailbreak that allows chatbots to bypass safety restrictions and generate harmful content. Affected chatbots include Llama3-70b-instruct, Gemini Pro, GPT 3.5 and 40, Mistral Large, Claude 3 Opus, and Commander R Plus.
Microsoft Announces Copilot+ AI-First PCs
Microsoft unveiled its plans for AI-first PCs. These Copilot+ machines will be significantly faster and more efficient than traditional PCs in terms of AI workloads.
OpenAI & Microsoft Sued by 8 Daily Newspapers
8 daily newspapers including New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune sued OpenAI and Microsoft accusing the companies of using news content illegally to train and power their chatbots.
Microsoft Announces New AI Models Called Phi-3
The AI department of Microsoft has released 3 weights of a new family of language models called Phi-3 that primarily displays the importance of training in keeping a model’s sizes small while improving the quality of its output.
Microsoft Researchers Publish VASA-1, Make Deepfaking Legitimate
Microsoft researchers have released a paper on their newest project VASA-1. You feed it a single picture of a person and a speech sample. It can then generate a talking face out of that with perfect lip-sync.
Microsoft & OpenAI Plan $100B Supercomputer
OpenAI and Microsoft are planning a supercomputer to be ready by 2028 that could cost around $100 billion as per current estimates (likely to go up) and run on nuclear power.
Microsoft’s Copilot Will Run on Windows Machines Locally
Intel confirmed that the Copilot app will be able to run locally on Windows PCs with more advanced hardware, particularly NPUs.
Microsoft Hires Inflection AI & DeepMind Co-Founder
Microsoft named Mustafa Suleyman as head of its consumer AI business. Suleyman was one of the co-founders of Inflection AI (creator of Pi) and ex-DeepMind. The company also hired more staff from the Inflection AI team.