Abstract: According to Xinzhiyuan, almost at the same time that Stable Diffusion XL 0.9 was released, Midjourney announced the release of version 5.2. The most eye-catching update of this version is the zoom out function, which can infinitely expand the original image while maintaining the same details as the original image. This extremely powerful function can create very magical pictures, and can even be used to shoot flawless high-definition zoom videos.
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U.S. Judge Grants Hermès Motion To Permanently Ban All MetaBirkin NFT Sales
According to a Cointelegraph report on June 25, the French luxury brand Hermès International won again in the infringement case against the artist Mason Rothschild, and a Manhattan judge in the United States ordered a permanent ban on all "MetaBirkin" NFT sales. Hermès originally filed the motion with the Southern District of New York in March.
Manhattan District Judge Jed Rakoff, who formally granted the request on June 23, cast doubt on Rothschild's defense of the lawsuit against Hermès and questioned Rothschild's continued marketing of the item. Judge Rakoff said: “(The defendant’s) whole scheme was to use variations of the Hermès trademark to convince consumers that Hermès was endorsing his lucrative MetaBirkins NFT product.”
It is reported that the MetaBirkin series consists of 100 NFT works, depicting furry Birkin-style handbags. According to reports, Rothschild received more than $1 million in sales from the project. As previously reported, a New York jury awarded $133,000 in damages to artists who infringed on the Hermès trademark to make NFTs.
U.S. Department of Commerce to Create Public AI Task Force to Address Potential Risks of Generative AI
According to IT House, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo (Gina Raimondo) recently announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will establish a new public working group on artificial intelligence (AI). It will build on the success of the NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (RMF) to further address issues brought about by the rapid development of AI technology. The Commerce Department said the task force will recruit volunteers and technical experts from the private and public sectors, and will focus on the risks associated with generative AI, which is driving rapid technological and market change.
NIST has short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals for the working group. In the short term, the working group will provide guidance on how to use NISF's AI risk management framework to support generative AI research and development. In the medium term, the working group will support NIST's work on generative AI-related testing, evaluation, and more. In the long term, the working group will explore the possibility of effectively using generative AI to solve social problems, such as issues such as health, environment and climate change.
The U.S. Air Force is researching military applications of generative AI such as ChatGPT
According to a Breaking defense report quoted by the "Kechuangban Daily", the current U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that the current generative AI has "limited effects" on the U.S. military, but if applied in an ethical manner, it can help complete some tasks. "I've asked the scientific advisory board to do two things with AI," he said in an online interview with the Center for a New American Security. "One, look at generative AI techniques like ChatGPT and think about their use cases in the military; Second, form an AI-focused science and technology department to study a broad collection of AI technologies to help the military gain a deep understanding of how these technologies are applied, eliminated, and integrated in the military.”
Japan drafts generative AI usage guidelines for schools, bans students from writing essays with ChatGPT
According to IT House citing Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun", Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology recently stated that it has drafted guidelines for schools for generative AI represented by ChatGPT, and will release them as soon as possible after listening to expert opinions.
The draft pointed out that generative AI brings various risks such as copyright infringement and dissemination of false information, so it is appropriate for schools to take the lead in trying to "restrict the use of generative AI." On this basis, the draft proposes specific "inappropriate" cases of the use of generative AI in schools, including the use of generative AI in literary creation activities such as poetry and haiku, or in examinations.
The draft specifically emphasizes that if a school submits creative works produced by generative AI, such as post-reading and competition works, as the original results of students, it will be regarded as "improper behavior" and will be notified and criticized by relevant institutions. In addition, when schools use AI to generate works, they need to be very careful not to infringe the copyright of the work. On the other hand, the draft also exemplifies suitable use scenarios for generative AI, for example, as part of reforming the way teachers work, using it for drafting during lesson preparation or as an auxiliary partner for certain simulation courses.
Xiaoi Robot will release a large model on June 29
According to the Financial Associated Press, Xiaoi Robot will launch the "Xiaoi Big Model" on June 29, aiming to achieve large-scale commercialization. At that time, a press conference will be held in Shanghai, at which the growth of the small i model will be shown, and the intelligence and characteristics of the small i model will be presented through product demonstrations, explanations and experiences. Babbitt noted that Xiaoi Robot was established in 2001. It is an artificial intelligence technology company that focuses on the independent research and development and industrial application of cognitive intelligence.
Liu Cixin talks about ChatGPT: Human incompetence is the last barrier of human beings
According to a report by Fast Technology on June 24, Liu Cixin, the author of "Three-Body Problem", recently expressed his opinion on the possible impact of artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT on people at an event, and answered the question of whether artificial intelligence will wipe out human beings .
He said that the first level is this kind of literal annihilation, that is, artificial intelligence uses some kind of violence to completely wipe out human beings physically or to rule the world. Judging from the current technological development trend, especially from the current technological level, the possibility in the foreseeable future is not too great. But the person who made this prediction forgot one thing, that is, our human computing power, the computing power we can provide is limited. It iterates to a certain extent, and our computing power cannot (can) support it. So this is a very ironic thing: our human incompetence has become our last barrier.
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AI Reasoning Deployment Solution Provider "Qingyao Intelligence" Completed Tens of Millions of Angel Round Financing
According to 36 Krypton reports, on June 25, AI reasoning deployment solution provider “Qingyue Intelligence” announced the completion of an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan. This round of financing is exclusively led by Oasis Capital, and the financing funds will be mainly used for algorithm research and development, product development and team expansion. According to reports, at present, Qingyuan Intelligence has launched MLGuider, a reasoning optimization tool chain for AI models, to adapt and optimize the current mainstream hardware environment.
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A team that has only been established for a few weeks has completed a financing of 105 million euros with no products, no users, and no operational experience. This memo (memo) helped it convince Light Speed, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and others. The memo emphasizes the European market, AI security, compliance and other aspects. Mistral believes that their use of an open source route that is completely different from OpenAI will eventually allow him to establish advantages and achieve surpassing. This memo is obviously written very skillfully, and it also contains some bluff elements. It made good use of the current FOMO mentality of the European society on the big language model to complete the financing.
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"Midjourney 5.2 shock release! The original painting generates a 3D scene, infinitely zooming into the infinite universe"
About the same time that Stable Diffusion XL 0.9 was released, Midjourney announced the release of version 5.2. The most eye-catching update of version 5.2 is the zoom out function, which can expand the original image infinitely while maintaining the same details as the original image.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6823514
Signs of "AI bubble" bursting! Bank of America: Investors in technology stocks "sneaked" with $2 billion
Recently, due to the upsurge of artificial intelligence (AI), U.S. stocks have performed very well. The S&P 500 index has entered a "technical bull market" in one fell swoop, and the Nasdaq has ushered in its best semi-annual performance since the Internet bubble era. However, under the superficial cheers, there is actually an "undercurrent" surging. After a 1999 dot-com bubble-era rally, there are now tentative signs investors are fleeing tech -- the sector, Bank of America strategist Michael Hartnett said in a new note. Just saw the largest outflows in 10 weeks.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6823460
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