Abstract: On August 16, the website of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology released a public solicitation for the "Sichuan Metaverse Industry Development Action Plan (2023-2025) (Draft for Comment)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan") Notice of opinion. The "Action Plan" proposes that by 2025, the province's metaverse-related industry scale will reach 250 billion yuan, the comprehensive industrial competitiveness will reach the leading position in the country, and an influential metaverse industry development highland will be initially established.
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Sichuan Province proposes an action plan for the development of the Metaverse industry, with a target scale of 250 billion yuan
According to news released by Sichuan, on August 16, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology issued an announcement on the website to publicly solicit opinions on the "Sichuan Metaverse Industry Development Action Plan (2023-2025) (Draft for Comment)". The "Action Plan" proposes that by 2025, the province's metaverse-related industry scale will reach 250 billion yuan, the comprehensive industrial competitiveness will reach the leading position in the country, and an influential metaverse industry development highland will be initially established.
Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing: In the next three years, an additional 7 billion yuan will be invested in AI technology and applications
According to IT House, Lenovo Group announced today its results for the first quarter of the 2023/24 fiscal year ending June 30, 2023: revenue of 90.3 billion yuan and net profit of 1.33 billion yuan. Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, issued an internal letter after the announcement of the financial report, announcing that in the next three years, an additional investment of more than 7 billion yuan will be used to accelerate the deployment of artificial intelligence technology and applications on a global scale.
Yang Yuanqing said: "AIGC generative artificial intelligence and LLM large language model are catalysts and accelerators for the development and application of artificial intelligence. We must seize the opportunity. At the same time, we must also see that AIGC and LLM are only part of artificial intelligence, and our The intelligent transformation strategy is to create a full-stack capability driven by artificial intelligence from pocket to cloud. We will continue to develop artificial intelligence terminals, artificial intelligence infrastructure and industrial solutions empowered by artificial intelligence to help customers and Consumers get a jump in productivity across the board."
Zhidu and Guoguang Electric will release the world's first speaker equipped with Wenxin Yiyan and ChatGPT tonight
According to the "Kechuang Board Daily" report on August 17, the new audio VIFA product jointly developed by Zhidu and Guoguang Electric will hold a press conference on the evening of August 17. According to reports, this is the world's first speaker equipped with ChatGPT. The relevant person in charge of the securities department of Zhidu shares said that this AI speaker will be equipped with Wenxinyiyan and ChatGPT at the same time, and will be released in the United States tonight.
The Associated Press has developed guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence, promising not to use AI-generated photos, videos, etc.
According to a report from the Webmaster's House on August 17, the Associated Press issued guidelines to its reporters on the use of artificial intelligence a few days ago. The guidelines remind journalists to use artificial intelligence technology with caution, and to view it as a supplementary tool rather than a replacement for journalists. The guidance emphasizes that results from the use of generative AI platforms should be considered unvetted source material and adhere to existing editorial standards. In addition, the AP has signed an agreement with OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, to use its news content to train generative artificial intelligence models, but will not publish content generated using artificial intelligence.
Zeng Xuezhong, Senior Vice President of Xiaomi: Xiaomi will soon launch end-to-side AI large-scale model applications
According to Wall Street reports, Zeng Xuezhong, senior vice president of Xiaomi Group and president of the mobile phone department, said that based on the deep underlying technology cooperation and high-frequency communication with Qualcomm and MediaTek (joint technology exchange meetings are held every week), "Xiaomi will soon launch end-side AI. Large-scale model application, I believe consumers will not be disappointed." In addition, the vice chairman of the technical committee of Xiaomi Group and the general manager of the robotics department revealed that "Xiaomi's end-side AI large-scale model technology project has received a new budget."
Alibaba DAMO Institute released a general model of cancer, which can assist in the diagnosis of eight mainstream cancers
According to DoNews, on August 16, the medical AI team of Ali Dharma Institute, together with Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Zhejiang University First Affiliated Hospital, Shengjing Hospital, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital and other units, proposed a unified Multi-cancer image analysis universal model (cancerUniT), based on Mask Transformer semantic segmentation, solves the problem of unified detection, segmentation and diagnosis of various tumor images, and is applicable to eight mainstream high-incidence and high-lethal cancers (lung, colorectal, Liver, stomach, breast, esophagus, pancreas, kidney) and tumor subtypes in related organs. It is understood that the paper results of this model have been included in ICCV 2023, the top conference of computer vision, and have been applied and tested in Shanghai First People's Hospital and other cooperative hospitals.
Tencent Cloud Intelligence launched a copywriting tool based on large models
According to 36 Krypton’s report on August 17, Tencent Cloud Intelligence officially launched the “copywriting creation” product, which is based on Tencent’s large-scale model capability research and development, and is designed for various customers such as advertising platforms, UGC platforms, and SaaS service companies. Copywriting tools.
Gartner: Generative AI Has Reached "Peak Inflated Expectations" and Is About to Plunge into "Trough of Disillusionment"
According to a report from IT House on August 17, market research firm Gartner recently released a report, judging from the hype cycle (Hype Cycle) of generative AI, it has reached the "peak of inflated expectations".
The agency divides the hype cycle of generative AI into Innovation Trigger, Peak of Inflated Expectations, Trough of Disillusionment, and Slope of Enlightenment. Enlightenment) and "Plateau of Productivity" (Plateau of Productivity) five stages. The agency believes that generative AI is currently in the second stage. Due to the high expectations of consumers and the media, it will quickly fall into a trough, and predicts that it will enter the fifth stage in the next 2-5 years .
Litera, the global leader in legal technology, announces the integration of GPT-3.5 in its software Kira
According to the AIGC open community report, on August 16, Litera, the global leader in legal technology solutions, announced on its official website that it has integrated generative AI into its contract analysis software Kira to help lawyers comprehensively improve the efficiency of contract analysis, review and query. It is reported that Litera uses the GPT-3.5 large language model of Microsoft Azure OpenAI. Through its internal 1 million legal contracts and 500,000 real case data, the model is fine-tuned and pre-trained, which can extract summaries, review, and query , Interpretation of legal contracts and other functions.
Government of Canada seeks comments on voluntary code of conduct for generative artificial intelligence
According to a report by VentureBeat citing the National Post on August 16, the Canadian government plans to seek public opinion on the development of a "voluntary code of conduct" for artificial intelligence companies. The voluntary code of conduct for generative artificial intelligence systems will be developed through Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) to ensure participating companies adopt safety measures, testing protocols and disclosure practices.
ISED spokesperson Audrey Champoux said, “ISED officials have begun brief consultations with dozens of AI experts on a voluntary code of practice for generative AI for Canadian AI companies, but we have not opened up the link for further public consultation. More More information will be released soon."
The internal document is understood to outline how the voluntary code of practice will help companies build trust in their systems and transition smoothly into compliance with the forthcoming regulatory framework. The move will serve as a first step before binding regulations can be implemented. The Code of Practice was developed in consultation with AI companies, academia and civil society to ensure its effectiveness and comprehensiveness.
Douyin, Volcano Engine, etc. launched the "Classic Image Restoration Project", using large visual models to restore classic Hong Kong films
According to the webmaster's home report, on August 16, Douyin, Volcano Engine, and China Film Archive jointly released the "Classic Image Restoration Plan", which will restore 100 classic old Hong Kong movies in 4K. For the first time, the Volcano Engine applies large visual models to old film restoration scenes, and improves the clarity, color, fluency, and blemish removal of restoration effects through AI technologies such as deep learning. During the restoration process, the volcano engine focuses on retaining the original artistic style of the film, and accelerates the art restoration through algorithms to speed up the restoration process.
OpenAI's first public acquisition of digital product company Global Illumination enhances core products such as ChatGPT
According to IT House's report on August 17, OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it has acquired digital product company Global Illumination. This is OpenAI's first public acquisition. The specific amount of the acquisition was not disclosed. OpenAI said that the entire team from Global Illumination has joined OpenAI and will work on its core products, including ChatGPT.
It is reported that Global Illumination is a New York company founded in 2021. Its founders Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon and Joey Flynn have all worked at Instagram, which is owned by Meta Platforms. Global Illumination has recently focused on developing open source technologies related to online game production. Dimson says on his personal website that he helped write some of the original code for Instagram's content-ranking algorithm.
McKinsey launches its own generative AI tool Lilli for employees, and provides complete source information for answers
According to a report by Webmaster's Home on August 17, McKinsey & Company, one of the largest consulting organizations, launched a new generative AI tool Lilli, a new chat application designed for employees by McKinsey's "ClienTech" team under the leadership of Chief Technology Officer Jacky Wright. program. Based on more than 100,000 documents and interview records, the tool provides information, insights, data, plans, and even recommends the best internal experts for consulting projects.
According to the underlying technology, Lilli uses currently available LLM, including LLM developed by McKinsey partner Cohere and OpenAI on Microsoft Azure platform, to support its GenAI Chat and natural language processing (NLP) capabilities. The app was built by McKinsey and acts as a security layer between the user and the underlying data.
Erik Roth, a senior partner at McKinsey, emphasized that McKinsey has nothing to do with the underlying "LLM" and is constantly exploring new LLM and AI models that provide the greatest utility, including older versions that are still being maintained. While the firm hopes to expand its use to all employees, Erik Roth also said McKinsey does not rule out white labeling Lilli and turning it into an external product used by McKinsey clients or other firms. Additionally, Erik Roth and his partners at McKinsey said that Lilli, which has been in beta since June 2023, will be fully rolled out at McKinsey this fall.
Investment and Financing
AI browser Lore development company Shuttle Labs completes $ 2.3 million in financing
According to a Decrypt report on August 17, Shuttle Labs, the development entity of the blockchain analysis platform Lore Explorer, completed a financing of US$2.3 million, with participation from SALT.org, Arca, Balaji Srinivasan, and Floodgate. Funds from the round will be used to build Lore's AI-powered browser and EVM-compatible web analytics tools. It is reported that Lore Explorer is an AI-first on-chain data analysis solution that has integrated a deep large language model (LLM) to make blockchain analysis conversational.
Metaverse recommended reading
"GPT-4 killer Google Gemini strikes! The list of 26 R&D leaders has been revealed, offering Midjourney-like image-generating capabilities"
According to The Information, Google has assembled a team of hundreds of engineers. The new killer Gemini combines the capabilities of the three major models of GPT-4, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, and it will be launched this fall.
https://www.8btc.com/article/6829964
"A quick look at the open source project AI Town released by a16z: Introduce virtual towns, AI characters can socialize and live"
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has released the code for AI Town, an open source project that allows developers to create their own virtual worlds driven by artificial intelligence. As the a16z team announced on the X platform (formerly Twitter), this ambitious project aims to "build users' own virtual worlds through artificial intelligence generative agents (Generative Agent)."
https://www.8btc.com/article/6829994
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