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After yesterday’s news about AI-generated sexual content, Google is requiring apps to better moderate synthetic content.
We’ll also take a look at an interesting case study on AI in the classroom and more details on wearable AI. Let’s jump in.
In today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ Google will require better moderation for AI-generated content
🤖 Texas private school replaces teachers with AI
📸 Humane shares more details on mysterious AI Pin
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Read time: 2.5 minutes
LATEST NEWS
🗞️ Google will require better moderation for AI-generated content
Source: Adobe Firefly
Google will start requiring Android apps to include a way to report offensive AI-generated content. The company is also implementing new moderation rules that dictate what kind of AI content is acceptable.
Key points:
Early next year, apps hosting AI-generated content will be required to add a button to report offensive material to remain in Google’s Play Store.
Google’s AI-generated content policy covers chatbots, image generators and apps that create synthetic voices and videos of real people.
Problematic AI content includes nonconsensual deepfakes of sexual material, recordings of real people designed for scamming, deceptive election content, malicious code creation and AI apps “primarily intended to be sexually gratifying.”
Google may revisit its AI policies as the technology continues to evolve.
Why it matters: Yesterday’s news highlighted the urgent need for guardrails that curb the risks of AI image generators. Google’s new content moderation policy is a huge step in the right direction, although it won’t be fully implemented until early 2024. Hopefully other tech providers follow suit with similar guidelines.
AI INSIGHT
🤖 Texas private school replaces teachers with AI
Source: Adobe Firefly
An Austin private school has reportedly replaced educators with AI to teach students core subjects.
What you should know:
Teachers at Alpha are now referred to as guides or coaches.
Students spend the first two hours of each school day working with an AI app-based tutoring system to learn core subjects.
They spend the remaining six hours of the day learning skills like public speaking and robotics from their guides.
Alpha’s 2hr Learning schedule is being used at every grade level.
Crucial quote: “We’ll have a 7-year-old kid who’s maybe at an eighth-grade reading level, but that doesn’t mean they should be reading eighth-grade material,” Alpha co-founder MacKenzie Price said. “So one of the things that’s great about a lot of the AI technology we have is [that it can] provide reading material at this certain Lexile level, which is eighth grade, but appropriate for a 7-year-old kid.”
The bottom line: Is this the future of learning? Only time will tell, but feedback from students and parents seems mostly positive. This will be an interesting educational model to keep up with over the next few years.
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 Humane shares more details on mysterious AI Pin
Our Ai Pin made the “@TIME Best Inventions” list. Thank you to our team, partners, and investors across the planet. See you on November 9th!
— Humane (@Humane)
5:06 PM • Oct 24, 2023
Time magazine just named Humane’s AI Pin one of the “Best Inventions of 2023,” revealing more details about the mysterious device.
The details:
The AI Pin appears to magnetically attach to clothing.
It is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and “a mix of proprietary software.”
The pin also has a built-in “Trust Light” that lights up anytime the device’s camera, microphone or other sensors are recording data.
Humane is expected to launch the product on Nov. 9.
The relevance: Humane has been hyping up its AI Pin for months, yet we still know very little about the device. Wearable AI is a growing market, but it’s yet to be seen how the technology will impact everyday life.
MORE TRENDING NEWS
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Source: Amazon News
Smart Shopping: Amazon’s new generative AI tool lets advertisers enhance product images.
Applying Pressure: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says only governments can tackle the risks posed by AI.
Anti-AI: A new tool called Nightshade allows artists to poison training data for text-to-image models.
Stalemate: The EU may fail to pass its AI Act in 2023.
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY