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10 Best AI PDF Summarizers
In the era of information overload, efficiently processing and summarizing lengthy PDF documents has become crucial for professionals across various fields.
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In The News
OpenAI forms safety council as it trains latest AI model
OpenAI says it is setting up a safety and security committee and has begun training a new AI model to supplant the GPT-4 system that underpins its ChatGPT chatbot.
Mistral announces Codestral, its first programming focused AI model
Today, Paris-based Mistral, the AI startup that raised Europe’s largest-ever seed round a year ago and has since become a rising star in the global AI domain, marked its entry into the programming and development space with the launch of Codestral, its first-ever code-centric large language model (LLM).
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
Social media is abuzz with examples of Google’s new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.
Applied use cases
Here’s how new AI tech could change the iPhone
Imagine asking Apple’s Siri to show you an old photo taken from a child’s second birthday, or summarizing lengthy emails and writing drafts. Then consider Siri learning your schedule, preferences, even your personality, so it can better communicate with you throughout the day.
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once
Engineers have developed an artificial intelligence system that lets someone wearing headphones look at a person speaking for three to five seconds to 'enroll' them. The system then plays just the enrolled speaker's voice in real time, even as the pair move around in noisy environments.
Looking for a specific action in a video? This AI-based method can find it for you
A new approach could streamline virtual training processes or aid clinicians in reviewing diagnostic videos.
Ethics
Why regulating AI can be surprisingly straightforward, when teamed with eternal vigilance
The inherent nature and rapid evolution of AI demands that regulations must continually evolve and focus on its outcomes, which requires eternal vigilance.
Attempts to regulate AI’s hidden hand in Americans’ lives flounder in US statehouses
The first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role in hiring, housing and medical decisions for millions of Americans are facing pressure from all sides and floundering in statehouses nationwide.
Trying to tame AI: Seoul summit flags hurdles to regulation
UK touts ‘Bletchley effect’ of safety institutes, but division remains over whether to limit AI abilities
Robotics
Video Friday : a Starbucks With 100 Robots
The Starbucks on the second floor of 1784 is the world’s most unique Starbucks, with more than 100 service robots called “Rookie” delivering Starbucks drinks to meeting rooms and private seats, and various experiments with a dual-arm robot
China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs
During recent military drills with Cambodia, China’s military showed off a robot dog with an automatic rifle mounted on its back, essentially turning man’s best (electronic) friend into a killing machine.
Mind-Blowing Head Transplant System with Robotic Surgeons and AI Precision
BrainBridge, a neuroscience and biomedical engineering start-up, has unveiled a revolutionary concept for a robotic head transplant system. This ambitious project aims to offer a new lease on life for patients suffering from terminal illnesses and neurodegenerative diseases by transferring their heads onto healthy donor bodies.
Research
Preserving manipulated and synthetic Deepfake detection through face texture naturalness
Experimental results have proved that HDDM possesses a sound effect and stability for synthetic and manipulated Deepfake attacks. In particular, the WildDeepfake simulation has demonstrated the possibility of applying HDDM to the real world.
Science in the age of AI
These challenges, and potential solutions, are detailed throughout this report in the chapters on research integrity; skills and interdisciplinarity; innovation and the private sector; and research ethics.
Research information in the light of AI: quality and data ecologies
Our aim is to show how research information harmonizes with the challenges of data literacy and data quality issues, related to AI, also wanting to underline that any project can be successful if the research institutions and various departments of universities, involved work together and appropriate support is offered to improve research information and data management.
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