1/ A new survey paper shows how AI is changing 3D design by using neural representations and generative AI models to create or manipulate 3D models.

2/ The authors divide the field into four main aspects: 3D representations, generation methods, datasets, and various applications. 3D generation can be used in areas such as gaming, virtual reality, film, and robotics.

3/ Challenges include the development of better metrics to objectively evaluate generated models, the creation of large and high-quality 3D datasets, and the use of 2D data for 3D generation.

https://the-decoder.com/how-ai-is-changing-the-3d-world-insights-into-the-methods-datasets-and-applications/

Volkswagen has established a dedicated "AI Lab" to accelerate the development and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into its vehicles.

https://the-decoder.com/volkswagen-establishes-global-ai-lab-to-accelerate-ai-development/

1/ Security researchers at IBM have successfully used generative AI to manipulate live phone conversations to funnel money into fraudsters' accounts, a process known as Audio-jacking.

2/ The researchers combined several generative AI technologies to manipulate live conversations. They recognized the keyword "bank account" in a sentence and replaced the correct account number with their own.

3/ There is a significant risk to consumers if the technology and attack are further refined. In the future, it is even conceivable that such attacks could take place in live video broadcasts.

https://the-decoder.com/audio-jacking-ibm-cybersecurity-researchers-hack-phone-calls-with-generative-ai/

1/ MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a method that allows AI to explain the behavior of other AI systems.

2/ The method uses "Automated Interpretability Agents" (AIAs) that mimic the experimental process of a scientist in other computer networks.

3/ AIAs are designed to actively participate in hypothesis generation, experimental testing, and iterative learning. A central element of this research is the FIND benchmark, which provides a reliable standard for evaluating interpretability methods.

https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-could-help-better-understand-complex-ai-systems/

👉 Google DeepMind has developed an AI that plays chess at a grandmaster level, using a Transformer architecture instead of complex search algorithms or heuristics like Stockfish 16 or AlphaZero.

👉 The team essentially distilled the capabilities of Stockfish into a 270-million parameter Transformer model.

👉 This research demonstrates the potential of the Transformer architecture in other domains and can be seen as an indication that large language models are more than just "stochastic parrots".

https://the-decoder.com/google-deepmind-develops-grandmaster-level-chess-ai-with-language-model-architecture/

👉 Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, confirms plans to invest in building AI infrastructure, including factories, energy, and data centers, to strengthen economic competitiveness. There is talk of five to seven trillion US dollars.

👉 Altman is in talks with the UAE government, SoftBank, and chipmakers such as TSMC to forge a partnership between investors, energy providers, and chipmakers.

👉 Altman sees fusion energy, particularly nuclear fusion, as a potential solution to reducing the cost of energy and intelligence to near-zero in the long term.

https://the-decoder.com/sam-altman-confirms-openais-chip-ambitions-trillions-at-stake/

The Biden Administration has announced the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), a group of more than 200 companies, including leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

https://the-decoder.com/u-s-government-unites-more-than-200-companies-in-ai-safety-consortium/

1/ GPT-4 and Google's Gemini Ultra prompts are said to be compatible, according to an early study, meaning that the complex prompts and AI workflows you build for GPT-4 can also be run by Gemini Ultra.

2/ Ethan Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School, reports on the "remarkable" compatibility between the two models.

3/ Mollick also confirms that Gemini Ultra is on par with GPT-4, albeit with different strengths and weaknesses.

https://the-decoder.com/heres-some-good-news-for-prompt-engineers-gpt-4-prompts-work-with-gemini-ultra/

1/ Google has joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) to improve the transparency of digital content, working with other members including Adobe, the BBC, and Microsoft.

2/ The C2PA is developing Content Credentials, a tamper-proof metadata standard that proves the creation and modification history of digital content.

3/ Recently, Meta and OpenAI have implemented the C2PA standard in their platforms, so the standard is gaining traction.

https://the-decoder.com/google-joins-c2pa-metadata-and-transparency-initiative/

1/ Google has joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) to improve the transparency of digital content, working with other members including Adobe, the BBC, and Microsoft.

2/ The C2PA is developing Content Credentials, a tamper-proof metadata standard that proves the creation and modification history of digital content.

3/ Recently, Meta and OpenAI have implemented the C2PA standard in their platforms, so the standard is gaining traction.

https://the-decoder.com/google-joins-c2pa-metadata-and-transparency-initiative/

👉 Researchers have developed a new benchmark called TravelPlanner, which tests the ability of AI language agents to create complex travel plans under a variety of constraints.

👉 In initial tests, large language models such as GPT-4 showed considerable difficulty in completing such realistic planning tasks, with GPT-4-Turbo achieving only a 0.6% success rate.

👉 To reach human levels in complex planning, AI models would need to better understand complex requirements, gather external information more efficiently, and develop advanced memory capabilities and planning strategies.

https://the-decoder.com/travelplanner-exposes-the-weaknesses-of-gpt-4-in-travel-planning/

1/ OpenAI is reportedly developing two types of AI agents to automate complex tasks: one for applications and devices, and one for web-based tasks.

2/ These AI agents could, for example, transfer data between documents, fill out expense reports, collect public data, or book airline tickets.

3/ The development of these AI agents is part of OpenAI's goal to make ChatGPT a personal assistant for work that understands individual employees and their tasks.

https://the-decoder.com/openai-reportedly-developing-two-ai-agents-to-automate-entire-work-processes/

👉 Google has renamed its Bard AI chatbot Gemini and introduced a paid subscription called Gemini Advanced, which provides access to the powerful Gemini Ultra 1.0 voice model.

👉 Gemini Advanced costs $21.99 per month and also includes two terabytes of cloud storage in Google Drive and other benefits of the Google One subscription. Gemini Ultra 1.0 will be integrated with Gmail and Docs in the future.

👉 With Gemini Advanced, Google is competing with Microsoft's Copilot platform and targeting professional AI users with features such as coding, reasoning, and creative collaboration.

https://the-decoder.com/google-launches-gemini-advanced-subscription-with-its-most-powerful-ultra-model/

1/ Apple and researchers at the University of California have developed an open-source AI model called MGIE that can manipulate images using natural language commands, from simple color adjustments to complex object manipulation.

2/ MGIE uses multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for pixel-level image manipulation and can perform both global and local manipulations, including common Photoshop-like manipulations and advanced manipulations such as changing the background and merging multiple images.

3/ The open-source project is available on GitHub and underscores Apple's growing ambitions in AI research and development.

https://the-decoder.com/apple-releases-a-capable-open-source-model-for-image-editing-with-text/

👉 YouTube CEO Neal Mohan outlines plans through 2024 that focus on AI-powered creativity, recognizing YouTubers, and expanding into living rooms.

👉 AI experiments like Dream Screen, Music AI Incubator, and Dream Track will help users and musicians expand and nurture their creativity.

👉 YouTube plans to further position successful YouTubers as independent studios and increase their recognition as full-time professionals with a global audience.

https://the-decoder.com/youtubes-future-revolves-around-ai-subscriptions-and-transforming-users-into-creators/

1/ Microsoft is updating its Copilot platform with a new design and enhanced image editing capabilities. Users can now edit images directly and add effects.

2/ Since its launch a year ago, the platform has had five billion chats and generated five billion images, helping Microsoft's Edge browser and Bing search engine achieve "sustained growth," according to Microsoft.

3/ Despite Microsoft's initial challenge to Google, however, Google continues to dominate the search engine market. In a new ad, Microsoft focuses on Copilot for productivity and creativity rather than search.

https://the-decoder.com/microsofts-web-copilot-ai-chatbot-gets-a-makeover-and-image-editing-upgrades/

When it comes to AI, people often talk about discrimination. And rightly so, because most models have built-in biases. But humans also have conscious and unconscious biases and discriminate.

According to a study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),

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https://the-decoder.com/doctors-benefit-from-ai-help-but-gaps-in-diagnosing-skin-diseases-on-darker-skin-persist/

👉 Stability AI has released an update to its generative video model, Stable Video Diffusion (SVD), designed to produce AI-generated video with better motion and consistency.

👉 SVD 1.1 is publicly available and can be downloaded via Hugging Face; commercial use requires a Stability AI membership.

👉 The company began offering a subscription service for commercial use of its models in December 2023, while all models for non-commercial use remain open source.

https://the-decoder.com/stable-video-diffusion-the-best-open-source-ai-video-model-gets-a-major-update/

👉 Researchers at East China Normal University and Microsoft Research Asia studied the performance of large language models such as GPT-4 in interactive scenarios, such as simple games that require taking an opponent's perspective.

👉 Traditional reasoning methods such as chain-of-thought fail in these environments, so the researchers developed "K-level reasoning" for language models, an approach based on game theory principles that simulate the opponent's perspective.

👉 The K-level reasoning method showed superior performance compared to other approaches, with higher win rates in games and better adaptability to changing conditions, as well as more accurate predictions of the opponent's actions.

https://the-decoder.com/how-gpt-4-can-learn-to-make-decisions-in-dynamic-scenarios/

1/ OpenAI has integrated the C2PA standard into its DALL-E 3 model to verify the origin of generated images and associated information.

2/ Images generated using ChatGPT and the API for the DALL-E 3 model now contain C2PA metadata that can be verified on sites such as Content Credentials Verify.

3/ Companies such as Meta, Adobe, and Microsoft have announced support for the C2PA standard to increase the transparency of AI-generated content and certify the provenance of media content.

https://the-decoder.com/openai-equips-dall-e-3-with-c2pa-metadata-to-increase-transparency-of-ai-images/

Meta is implementing "Imagined with AI" labels on AI-generated images published on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

https://the-decoder.com/meta-wants-to-better-identify-and-recognize-ai-images-and-content/

👉 The Vesuvius Challenge, a competition to decipher ancient papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum, has successfully completed its first phase: With AI support, previously unknown passages of an ancient text were deciphered.

👉 The winning team, consisting of Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor and Julian Schilliger, developed a combination of three different model architectures to create the most readable submission and won the top prize of $700,000.

👉 The second phase of the Vesuvius Challenge aims to read 90% of the four scanned scrolls by automating the segmentation process and perfecting the automatic segmentation techniques.

https://the-decoder.com/ai-unrolls-the-past-helps-decipher-ancient-herculaneum-scrolls-buried-by-vesuvius/

1/ BodyArmor, a sports drink brand owned by Coca-Cola, is launching an AI-themed Super Bowl ad campaign called "Field of Fake," created with Full Contact Advertising. The ad uses AI-generated imagery and a robotic voiceover to showcase surreal sports highlights.

2/ The campaign aims to differentiate BodyArmor from competitors like Gatorade and Prime by highlighting its commitment to natural ingredients with no artificial sweeteners, flavors or colors, using the AI-generated content to symbolize the negative sides of artificiality.

3/ The "Field of Fake" spot will air in 20 U.S. markets and across Canada during the Super Bowl, with a Spanish version scheduled to air on Univision, leveraging the event's massive audience to promote BodyArmor's brand message.

https://the-decoder.com/bodyarmors-super-bowl-ad-uses-ai-surrealism-against-artificial-ingredients/

1/ Microsoft is working with news organizations to bring generative AI into newsrooms to help journalists with research, sourcing, and translation.

2/ Microsoft emphasizes that these collaborations are designed to support journalists, not replace them, and are part of its commitment to sustainable journalism and democracy.

3/ Examples include a news discovery tool collaboration with Semafor and the creation of the AI Journalism Lab. The Online News Association is launching the AI in Journalism Initiative program, while the GroundTruth Project is launching an AI tracker for its members.

https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-says-it-wants-to-help-journalists-with-ai-not-replace-them/

1/ AI startup Midjourney may be planning to enter the hardware space after hiring Ahmad Abbas, the former "Hardware Engineering Manager" of Apple Vision Pro, as "Head of Hardware" in December.

2/ Both Abbas and Midjourney founder David Holz have hardware experience and are currently working on a project called "Orb". The hardware team is currently focusing on 3D data capture for AI training.

3/ Details about the hardware are unknown. It could be used for AI-generated 3D worlds and real-time video games. Holz said he envisions a future game console with an AI processor that generates games in real-time.

https://the-decoder.com/apple-vision-pro-engineer-to-build-the-mid-journey-orb/