📣 Cradle-to-Grave environmental impacts of GenAI training on the Nvidia A100 GPU
📣 Cradle-to-Grave environmental impacts of GenAI training on the Nvidia A100 GPU Authors: Sophia Falk, David Ekchajzer, Thibault Pirson, Etienne Lees-Perasso, Augustin Wattiez, Lisa Biber-Freudenberger, Sasha Luccioni, Aimee van Wynsberghe Abstract: The rapid expansion of AI has intensified concerns about its environmental sustainability. Yet, current assessments predominantly focus on operational carbon emissions using secondary data or estimated values, overlooking environmental impacts in […]
📣 The Oxford Handbook of the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI
📣 The Oxford Handbook of the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI Editors: Philipp Hacker, Andreas Engel, Sarah Hammer, Brent Mittelstadt Abstract: This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue […]
How to Scale GenAI in the Workplace
How to Scale GenAI in the Workplace Authors: Michael Wade, Konstantinos Trantopoulos, Mark Navas, and Anders Romare AS GENERATIVE AI’S EVOLUTION CONTINUES, the next challenge for leaders is clear: making GenAI scale and deliver measurable value across their organizations.1 As companies move from experimentation to enterprisewide adoption, many struggle not with the tools themselves but with […]
‘Positive review only’: Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
‘Positive review only’: Researchers hide AI prompts in papers This article is written by Shogo Sugiyama and Ryosuke Eguchi Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries — including Japan, South Korea and China — contained hidden prompts directing artificial intelligence tools to give them good reviews, Nikkei has found. Nikkei looked at English-language preprints — […]
Can GenAI rely on the copyright text and data mining (TDM) exception for its training?
Can GenAI rely on the copyright text and data mining (TDM) exception for its training? This article is written by Elena Varese for GamingTechLaw. Can generative artificial intelligence systems’ use of data, images and content for their own training rely on the new dedicated text and data mining (TDM) exception introduced by the Copyright Directive? […]
Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble.
Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble. This article was written by Gerrit De Vynck for The Washington Post. A growing group of Wall Street analysts and tech investors is beginning to sound the alarm that the immense amount of money being poured into artificial intelligence by Big Tech […]
Energy Star Ratings for AI Models
Energy Star Ratings for AI Models This article is taken from the blog of Prof. Sacha Luccioni Every time we use an electronic device like a computer, a phone, or even a washing machine, we are using energy to power the device; and depending on how that energy is generated, this can result in greenhouse […]
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary This article is written by Melissa Heikkilä for MIT Technology Review. This makes it sound like I’m dying, but it’s the opposite. I am, in a way, about to live forever, thanks to the AI video startup Synthesia. For the past […]
Research Alert: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time
Research Alert: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time Authors: Sicheng Xu et al. (2024). Abstract: We introduce VASA, a framework for generating lifelike talking faces of virtual characters with appealing visual affective skills (VAS), given a single static image and a speech audio clip. Our premiere model, VASA-1, is capable of not only […]
Student-developed AI chatbot opens Yale philosopher’s works to all
Student-developed AI chatbot opens Yale philosopher’s works to all The public is often closed off from scholarly perspectives on the potential benefits of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Studies often reside behind pricey paywalls. And even if they are accessible, they are frequently written in esoteric language that non-academics struggle to parse. Nicolas Gertler, a first-year […]