Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007

Meta has acknowledged that all text and photos that adult Facebook and Instagram users have publicly published since 2007 have been fed into its artificial intelligence models.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242789/meta-training-ai-models-facebook-instagram-photo-post-data

Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body

It was early January 2016, and I had just joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab. My job: help figure out what to do with the employees and technology left over from nine robot companies that Google had acquired. People were confused.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-mission-to-give-ai-robot-body/

Artificial Agency: Characters, Friends, and Social Trends

In March 2024, I proposed a session for a small (I thought) digital conference on libraries and artificial intelligence. A week later, I was approached by the organizer of the Library 2.0 “Artificial Intelligence and Libraries Mini-Conference” himself, Steve Hargadon.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://reedhepler.substack.com/p/artificial-agency-characters-friends

Ed Tech Startup Behind L.A. Schools’ Failed $6M AI Chatbot Files for Bankruptcy

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.the74million.org/article/allhere-ai-los-angeles-schools-tool-bankruptcy-filing/

Google’s AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits

Within the next several months, Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://gizmodo.com/googles-ai-will-help-decide-whether-unemployed-workers-get-benefits-2000496215

Google AI Turns Your Notes Into a 'Lively' Podcast With 2 Fake Hosts

Google is using AI to turn documents, notes, and other sources into a "lively" audio discussion featuring two AI hosts. The feature, dubbed Audio Overviews, launches in NotebookLM today. You can try it by uploading work into a new or existing Notebook.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-ai-turns-your-notes-into-a-lively-podcast-with-2-fake-hosts

Google’s AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud

Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding a new “audio conversations” feature.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/googles-ai-note-taking-app-notebooklm-can-now-explain-complex-topics-to-you-out-loud/