SynthID will launch on Google’s Imagen, but it could roll out to third parties later. AI 

Google Seeks to Increase Transparency in AI Art with Invisible Digital Watermark

Google DeepMind has introduced SynthID, a tool designed to enhance transparency in AI-generated images. SynthID, a watermarking and identification tool for generative art, enables the embedding of a digital watermark onto an image’s pixels, which remains invisible to the human eye. Initially, SynthID will be made available to a select group of customers utilizing Imagen, Google’s cloud-based AI art generator. One of the many problems with generative art – in addition to the ethical implications of the training of artists involved in their work – is the potential for deep…

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The 'Godfather of AI' doesn’t share the industry’s optimism. AI 

Geoffrey Hinton Doubts Good AI Will Overcome Bad AI

Geoffrey Hinton, a renowned professor at the University of Toronto and a leading figure in the field of artificial intelligence, has taken on the role of an unofficial overseer for the industry. Widely recognized as the “Godfather of AI” due to his groundbreaking work on neural networks, Hinton decided to step away from his position at Google in order to have more freedom in critiquing the field he helped shape. He expressed concerns about the unchecked and potentially hazardous advancement in generative AIs, exemplified by the emergence of ChatGPT and…

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Sunak and the tech leaders - OpenAI's Sam Altman, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and Anthropic's Dario Amodei - discussed the risks AI poses News 

UK works with OpenAI and Google DeepMind to ensure society benefits from AI technology

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the bosses of leading artificial intelligence companies OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic will work together to ensure society benefits from transformative technology, they said in a statement after the meeting on Wednesday. According to the statement, Sunak and the technology leaders — OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei — discussed risks posed by artificial intelligence, from disinformation and national security to existential threats. They also discussed security measures, voluntary actions labs are considering to manage risks, and possible avenues…

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Alarmed at the success of Microsoft-owned OpenAI's ChatGPT, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has created a unit that will help the company build more capable AI systems safely and responsibly. News 

Google CEO Sundar Pichai creates the DeepMind project to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems

Alarmed by the success of Microsoft-owned OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have created a unit to help the company build more powerful AI systems safely and responsibly. This group, called Google DeepMind, brings together two leading research groups in the field of AI: Google Research’s Brain team and DeepMind. “Their collective achievements in AI over the last decade span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequential sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks such as TensorFlow and JAX for large-scale detection, training, and…

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The new division will be led by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and its setting up will ensure ”bold and responsible development of general AI News 

Alphabet merges Google Brain and DeepMind to boost artificial intelligence research

Alphabet Inc is teaming up with Google Brain and DeepMind as it doubles down on AI research in its competition with rival systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. The new division will be led by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and its creation will ensure the “bold and responsible development of general artificial intelligence,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post Thursday. Alphabet said the merging teams have delivered several high-profile projects, including Transformer, a technology that formed the basis of some of OpenAI’s own work. Moving forward, Alphabet’s staff…

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