Babbitt | Metaverse Daily Must-Reads: Rejection of data was prostituted by Google OpenAI and others, the US version of Tieba Reddit charged for API access, and nearly 8,000 communities such as ChatGPT closed sub-zones in protest

Abstract: According to Xinzhiyuan, in the past, Reddit data was used by OpenAI and Google to train large language models for free. This year, Reddit was also greedy when they saw Musk set up a charging model for the Twitter API. They followed suit and began to raise prices on their own high-quality data. But the result of this behavior is that it directly kills the third-party client. Netizens on Reddit directly exploded, and the administrators of the sub-sections also rose up one after another. Since yesterday, the sub-sections have been temporarily or permanently closed in protest. More than 7,000 of the more than 8,000 subsections of the "American Post Bar" Reddit have disappeared.

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UN Secretary-General backs creation of global artificial intelligence (AI) regulator

According to Reuters, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (António Guterres) said yesterday that some AI executives have proposed the establishment of a global AI regulator similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and he supported it.

"The latest form of artificial intelligence, generative AI, is sounding deafening alarm bells, the loudest of which are the developers of generative AI, and we must take these warnings seriously," Guterres said. Sri Lanka also announced that the United Nations plans to establish a high-level AI advisory body by the end of this year to regularly review AI governance arrangements and make recommendations on how these arrangements are consistent with human rights, the rule of law and the common good. He also added: "Inspired by the International Atomic Energy Agency, I think an international AI regulatory agency can be established." Previously reported, OpenAI CEO: There should be an agency similar to the United Nations nuclear supervision to control AI.

The UK invested 100 million pounds to establish an AI working group and OpenAI to jointly build basic models

According to a report from IT House on June 13, the British Prime Minister announced the establishment of an AI working group at the 2023 London Technology Week held recently, and plans to invest 100 million pounds in artificial intelligence regulations and the development of responsible artificial intelligence. To ensure the healthy development of artificial intelligence in a safe environment.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted today that he is working with DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic to create an early, priority access model for research and security purposes. The newly formed AI working group focuses on the underlying models, and reports say models from OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind will be made available to the UK government for research and security purposes.

Bloomberg Intelligence: Generative AI market size is expected to grow to $1.3 trillion in 2032

According to a report by "Kechuangban Daily" on June 13, a Bloomberg Intelligence report pointed out that in the next 10 years, the market size of generative AI will grow from 40 billion US dollars in 2022 to 1.3 trillion US dollars in 2032, with a compound annual growth rate. It is expected to reach 42%. Generative AI is expected to account for 10%-12% of IT hardware, software services, advertising spending, and gaming market spending by 2032, up from less than 1% today.

Meta open source AI language model MusicGen, which can convert text and melody into complete music

According to IT House news, Meta recently open sourced its AI language model MusicGen on GitHub, which is based on the Transformer model launched by Google in 2017. As the model name suggests, MusicGen is mainly used for music generation, which can convert text and existing melodies into complete compositions. In addition, MusicGen also supports the combined input of text and melody, for example, you can propose to generate "a light song" and at the same time ask to "combine it with Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".

According to the R&D team's test on the actual performance of MusicGen, compared with Google's MusicLM and other music models such as Riffusion, Mousai, and Noise2 Music, MusicGen performs well in testing the matching degree of music and text prompts and the credibility of composition. Better, slightly above Google MusicLM's level overall. Currently, Meta has licensed the model for commercial use and published a demo web application on Huggingface.

Amazon uses generative AI to summarize product reviews and help users select suitable products

According to a report by Sina Technology on June 13, Amazon will use artificial intelligence technology to help users find suitable products. The e-commerce giant recently began testing a feature in its shopping app that uses artificial intelligence to summarize customer reviews of select products. The feature also provides a quick summary of what consumers like or don't like about a product, with the words "generated by artificial intelligence based on customer reviews" next to the summary.

Goldman Sachs is actively exploring how to use generative AI internally

Goldman Sachs CEO Solomon said in an interview that Goldman Sachs is actively exploring how to use generative AI within the company. Goldman Sachs believes that its large and unique data sets are an invaluable resource, and it is working hard to use technology to better use this data to provide services to clients.

Nature refuses to publish AI-generated images and videos

According to a report from IT House on June 13, the famous scientific journal "Nature", which was founded in 1869, recently announced in an editorial that in order to ensure the integrity, transparency and ethics of the research, it will not publish any research using generative artificial intelligence. Images, videos, or illustrations created using (generative AI) tools, except for articles related to artificial intelligence.

IKEA is betting on AI development, is providing customers with basic consulting services through a chatbot called Billie

According to a Reuters report on June 13, Swedish home furnishing giant IKEA is training call center customers to become interior design consultants. consulting services.

In April of this year, IKEA expanded the remote interior design service previously launched in parts of Europe, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and other places to the UK and the US. Ingka, the parent company of IKEA, said that since 2021, the company has trained 8,500 call center customer service personnel, while Billie, an AI chatbot launched in the same year, has handled 47% of customer base inquiries in the past two years.

Governor of Tokyo, Japan: All departments of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will fully introduce generative AI such as ChatGPT in August

According to Jinshi’s report on June 13, Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo, Japan: All departments of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will fully introduce generative AI such as ChatGPT in August.

360 officially releases new AI products "360 Smart Brain Model" and "360 AI Digital Human Square"

According to 36 Krypton, 360 officially released a new AI product "360 Smart Brain Model". It is understood that the 360 big language model is 360's self-developed 100 billion parameter large model, which already has cross-modal generation capabilities, and has four major capabilities of text, image, voice, and video processing. scenes such as video. In addition, 360 Zhinao 4.0 has been officially connected to 360 full-end products, including search, browser, security guard, etc. Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360, said that 360 has passed the evaluation of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and has become the first trusted AIGC large model in China.

In addition, 360 officially launched a new AI product "360 AI Digital Human Plaza", which has 200+ virtual digital human characters, such as digital celebrities such as Monkey King and Zhuge Liang, as well as digital employees with different functions such as marketing, operations, and programmers. Users can choose different virtual characters, have a dialogue with the characters, and get corresponding answers and suggestions.

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"Stuart Russell: The large model is just an isolated piece of the AGI puzzle, and there are still puzzles not found"

"Artificial intelligence is like a huge magnet from the future pulling us forward, how to ensure that we will not be controlled by intelligence beyond human?" June 10, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence (Center for Human-Compatible AI) director Stuart Russell (Stuart Russell) delivered a speech at the 2023 Beijing Zhiyuan Conference, saying that the design of artificial intelligence systems must follow two principles. First, the AI must act in the best interests of humanity; second, the AI itself should not know what those interests are.

"Little Red Book will also withdraw? The big Internet company's data collection business has suffered a major defeat"

Recently, an announcement from the Xiaohongshu platform aimed at digital collection merchants circulated in the digital collection circle. The announcement stated that the platform will suspend the sale of relevant digital collections, and at the same time require merchants to remove the Xiaohongshu digital collection channel "R" before May 15. -Digital works" merchandise. The industry speculates that Xiaohongshu’s move may be a signal to stop the digital collection business. The data collection ship can still find a large number of products that are on sale when searching for “digital collections” on the Xiaohongshu platform. The authenticity of the above announcement is unknown.

"Rejection of data was prostitution by Google OpenAI, the US version of Tieba Reddit charged for API access, ChatGPT and other nearly 8,000 communities rose up to protest"

When I woke up, more than 7,000 of the more than 8,000 subsections of the "American Post Bar" Reddit had disappeared. A few months ago, Reddit suddenly started charging for API access, and the price was ridiculously high. As a result, it directly killed third-party clients. Netizens on Reddit directly exploded, and the administrators of the sub-sections also rose up one after another. Since yesterday, the sub-sections have been temporarily or permanently closed in protest. Moreover, with the passage of time, the wave of protests has not subsided, but has intensified.

"Cook takes Zhang Yiming to fly? "

In early June this year, Apple released the "spatial computing device" Vision Pro, which shocked the entire headset market with its unique product. The arrival of this blockbuster has given headset manufacturers, including PICO, the hope of breaking through the bottleneck and entering the public's field of vision. It has also reshaped the pricing, supply chain, and software ecology of headsets, jumping out of the "losing money on selling one set" One" quagmire. But while Apple opened a window for the entire industry, it also closed the door that PICOs have been trying to open. Vision Pro's handleless interaction method eclipses all products on sale; and the combination of M2+R1 chips makes it difficult for PICO and Quest who are still waiting for Qualcomm to squeeze toothpaste. Like the release of the iPhone and iPad that year, Apple once again created a potential outlet. Whether Zhang Yiming's PICO can be "flyed" by Cook is still a huge unknown.