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Protestors are fighting to put AI development on hold
Ray Choi
May 16, 2024
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🪧 Protestors are fighting to put AI development on hold
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As artificial intelligence development continues apace, protestors are fighting back. On Monday (May 13) a group of 20 or so people took to the street outside the London headquarters of the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology to make a stance.
The protestors make up part of an activist group aiming to make companies pause the development of large AI models which they fear could be a risk to the future of humanity. They’ve called themselves Pause AI.
Their website states: “AI is a powerful technology that is increasingly transforming our world. It comes with amazing potential, but also with serious risks, including existential catastrophe.”
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Google is quick on OpenAI’s heels as just three months after the text-to-video generator Sora was announced, the search engine and technology company has launched its version.
At the annual Google I/O developer conference event on Tuesday (May 14), Veo was unveiled. This is Google’s latest and most advanced video generation model that can create 1080p resolution videos in a range of cinematic and visual styles.
The technology giant says “Veo builds upon years of our generative video model work, including Generative Query Network, DVD-GAN, Imagen-Video, Phenaki, WALT, VideoPoet and Lumiere – combining architecture, scaling laws and other novel techniques to improve quality and output resolution.”
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