🚫 FTC Halts Rite Aid's AI Misuse, NASA's Deep Space Cat, LLM Efficiency Leap
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Rite Aid Banned From AI Facial Recognition by FTC After Misuse. FTC says chain's surveillance system falsely flagged customers Bankrupt pharmacy chain will stop using system, delete images Rite Aid Corp. must stop using facial recognition for the next five years as part of a privacy settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, which said the pharmacy chain misused the technology to mistakenly tag consumers as shoplifters. By Leah Nylen via Bloomberg
𝕏: Today @FTC took action against Rite Aid for recklessly using facial recognition tools, leading to innocent people being wrongly accused of shoplifting. Our order prohibits the firm from using facial surveillance tools for 5 years, among other protections. - Lina Khan (@linakhanFTC)
NASA Streams Cat Video From Deep, Deep Space. NASA engineers anxiously gathered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to view a cat video, wondering if it would be in the pristine high definition for which they had hoped. To their relief, it was. For the first time, high-definition video — this one of a lab employee’s cat named Taters — was streamed from 18.6 million miles away, or roughly 80 times the distance from the Earth to the moon, the farthest ever. By Sopan Deb via The New York Times
𝕏: NASA just streamed the first video from deep space via laser, and it’s more than just a cat meme. The tech demo proved it’s possible to stream HD laser video from deep space. - Massimo (@Rainmaker1973)
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LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory. Large language models (LLMs) are central to modern natural language processing, delivering exceptional performance in various tasks. However, their intensive computational and memory requirements present challenges, especially for devices with limited DRAM capacity. By Keivan Alizadeh via Hugging Face
𝕏: And so it begins: @Apple announces LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory. Brilliant move! - gabriel.nocode (@gabrielnocode)
VideoPoet: A large language model for zero-shot video generation. A recent wave of video generation models has burst onto the scene, in many cases showcasing stunning picturesque quality. One of the current bottlenecks in video generation is in the ability to produce coherent large motions. In many cases, even the current leading models either generate small motion or, when producing larger motions, exhibit noticeable artifacts. By Dan Kondratyuk via Google Research
𝕏: Google announces VideoPoet: A large language model for zero-shot video generation - AK (@_akhaliq)
Timnit Gebru says harmful AI systems need to be stopped. The field of artificial intelligence (AI) cycles through what are called AI summers, epochs where every other news headline seems to be about AI and there is ample funding for the field, and AI winters, which come from the disappointment of undelivered overpromises during the summers. We are currently in perhaps the most intense AI summer ever, where just the mere mention of “AI” gets startups 15-50% more funds in investment. By Timnit Gebru via The Economist
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