Develop and Solve Tech News - 1 Oct 2023
Hey Legend,
Welcome to my tech news article series, where I will be sharing 10 tech-related news stories from every day.
I started this series because I believe that it's important to stay informed about the latest trends and developments in the tech world. Tech is constantly evolving, and it can be difficult to keep up with all the latest news.
That's where I come in. I'll do the hard work of finding and summarizing the most important tech news stories of the day, so you can stay informed without having to spend hours scouring the web.
So Let's get started.
News 1
When GPT-4 was released in March this year, the model was branded as an advanced model with multimodal capabilities. However, multimodality was nowhere in sight. After almost six months, OpenAI released a string of updates last week, the notable one being image and voice feature– making GPT-4 truly multimodal, and finally bringing the ‘Vision’ feature.
News 2
Sundays, The Sequence Scope brings a summary of the most important research papers, technology releases and VC funding deals in the artificial intelligence space.
News 3
Google is hoping its new AI tool will be as helpful for tardy and under-pressure workers. The company's Duet AI for Workspace was made available to the public in late August and offers several new features for the productivity tool. One of them allows users to send the AI to meetings in their place.
News 4
Artists were among the first to encounter generative AI. Image generators such as Dall-E and Stable Diffusion have also quickly gained traction. As the popularity of these tools grows, some artists say work and opportunities have begun to dry up.
News 5
Nuclear energy could play a role in meeting the high-power demands of AI systems, especially for continuous and stable power. Microsoft is exploring small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) for data centers hosting its cloud and AI services and is seeking a program manager to develop a strategy.
News 6
Uber-cool and not forgotten, smart glasses are back. Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the next generation Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses during the Meta Connect event that was recently held at their headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The announcement comes exactly two years after releasing first generation Ray Ban Stories, which did not offer the advanced capabilities that the new glasses offer today.
News 7
In the bustling city of Montreal, the landscape of Canadian tech policy recently shifted. Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne took the stage at the All In AI conference to reveal the government’s latest venture: a voluntary code of conduct for generative AI systems.
News 8
A couple of years ago, the biggest topic in music was NFTs. They were the future, until they weren’t. Last year, the only thing anyone (including me) could talk about was Web3 technology. This tech is still being developed and rolled out, but we’re not hearing as much about it. In 2023, the obsession is with artificial intelligence. So far, that shows no sign of abating.
News 9
Clegg's comments come as tech companies including Meta, OpenAI and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google have been criticized for using information scraped from the internet without permission to train their AI models, which ingest massive amounts of data in order to summarize information and generate imagery.
News 10
AI models use deep learning to talk like humans but they lack the ability to make morally sound decisions. In the last couple of months there has been a never-ending see-saw of whether AI will lead us to utopia or lead us to a moral ruin.
That's all for today's tech news roundup. I hope you found this information helpful and informative. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to leave a comment below.