AI Edition - It's AI Time - 177 [09-10-2024]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 177

Navigating Gen AI's middle miles

As we approach the “middle mile” moment in the adoption of generative AI technologies, only 34% of software and platform companies have embedded AI into all business processes. Learn the 3 key recommendations that will help address the challenges to come.

A Nobel Prize for neural network pioneers Hinton and Hopfield

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to deep learning “godfather” Geoffrey Hinton and machine learning pioneer John Hopfield for their work on the artificial neural networks that underpin today’s AI revolution.

Meta debuts movie generation AI model

The social media company unveiled Movie Gen, a powerful generative AI model that can create high-quality short videos from text prompts. Text prompts can also be used to edit the videos and the model can automatically create AI-generated sound effects or music appropriate to the scene an advance over other text-to-video software that has so far only been able to create videos without sound, the New York Times reported. The model will compete with OpenAI’s Sora, Luma’s Dream Machine, and Runway’s Gen 3 Alpha models.

Another OpenAI researcher jumps ship this time to Google DeepMind

Tim Brooks, who co-led the development of OpenAI’s text-to-video generation model, Sora, announced on X that he was leaving OpenAI to join Google DeepMind. Brooks joins a growing list of prominent OpenAI researchers who have left the company recently.

Amazon deploys an AI HR coach

The Information, which quotes Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and tech, speaking at a conference. She said the company trained a generative AI model on employee performance reviews and promotion assessments to act as a coach for employees seeking advice on the best way to approach difficult conversations with managers or direct reports.

OpenAI is drifting away from Microsoft for its data center demands

The Information reports, quoting people who have heard OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sara Friar discussing plans to reduce the company’s dependence on Microsoft’s GPU clusters. OpenAI recently signed a deal to rent time on GPUs in a data center in Abilene, Texas, that's being developed by Microsoft rival Oracle. The publication said OpenAI is concerned Microsoft is unable to give it access to enough data center capacity for it to stay apace of competitors, particularly Elon Musk’s X.ai. Musk has recently boasted about creating one of the world’s largest clusters of Nvidia GPUs.