Congress Demands Deepfake Redressal, Google Invests in Character.AI: Don’t Miss Out on These 5 AI Updates!
As Diwali approaches, India is gearing up for the festive weekend, while the artificial intelligence sector remains highly active. The Maharashtra Congress has urged the state government to establish a committee to address the problem of deepfakes by developing a legal and regulatory framework. Additionally, Google is currently negotiating a significant investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in the renowned character-based AI chatbot platform, Character.AI. These are just a few highlights from today’s AI roundup, so let’s delve deeper into the details.
Congress demands Maharashtra government to deal with deep fakes
The Maharashtra Congress is urging the state government to set up a committee to develop a legal and regulatory framework to combat AI-generated deep counterfeiting, reports PTI. The party emphasizes that a special mechanism is needed to identify and expose deep counterfeits. This call comes in response to a deepfake video featuring actress Rashmika Mandanna going viral on social media, which has drawn criticism from various politicians and celebrities.
“Celebrities like Rashmika Mandanna and some international politicians have borne the deep brunt of fake attacks and such a situation can also displease a common man and ruin him for life,” PTI translated the Congress leader’s message written in Marathi.
Google may invest in Character.AI
According to a Reuters report, Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Character.AI, an artificial intelligence chatbot startup that has become wildly popular. The purpose of the investment, which may be structured as a convertible bond, is to support Character.AI in educational models and meet user demand. This investment would further strengthen the partnership between Character.AI and Google, where the startup will utilize Google’s cloud services and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for model training. Character.AI allows users to interact with virtual versions of celebrities and create their chatbots and AI assistants, offering a subscription model for $9.99 per month for primary use of the chatbots.
The Chinese AI startup has been hoarding Nvidia chips for 18 months
A Bloomberg report revealed that China-based artificial intelligence startup 01.AI shopped for high-end Nvidia AI chips earlier this year to ensure an adequate supply before the US government imposed a trading ban. The move was preemptive, securing access to Nvidia’s advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) for AI model training despite the ban. 01.AI founder and CEO Kai-Fu Lee acquired enough Nvidia chips to satisfy its needs for roughly the next 18 months. Lee, also CEO of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures, mentioned this in an interview with Bloomberg Television, noting that the startup’s valuation surpassed $1 billion in less than eight months after it was founded earlier this year.
AI protection was almost a ‘deal breaker’ in workers’ strike, SAG-AFTRA officials say
SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland emphasized that the battle for worker protections against generative artificial intelligence was still “literally on the last day, in the last hours of negotiations,” according to USA Today.
AI protection negotiations played a critical role in reaching a three-year contract agreement between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), reveals Crabtree. -Ireland. The SAG-AFTRA National Board has overwhelmingly approved the tentative agreement, which now awaits final ratification by a vote of the union’s general membership within the next 21 days.
Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo on the threats posed by artificial intelligence
Writing in The Guardian, 2019 Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo highlighted that the rapid development of ChatGPT and other similar AI models has raised concerns about its potential impact on the writing industry. Its ability to produce human-quality text has led to fears that writers might become obsolete, prompting legal action from both the Writers Guild of America and a number of writers. These AI models produce “an imitation that appears to be the original writing,” he said.
“From my experiments, it’s clear that ChatGPT’s current literary sophistication is weak—it’s clichéd and generally unconvincing—but who knows how it will evolve? Copyright issues aside, we have to ask ourselves: what is lost when algorithms replace human creativity? Evaristo told The Guardian.
