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Friends, for some inexplicable reason, I recently was reminded of the AI robot Sophia, who we wrote about extensively in 2016 and later. This week, we revisit "the girl" and see what she's been up to these past few years, and it's fascinating! Meanwhile, Chris Robbins has delved into the implications of AI and law in our weekly AI news column. And finally, we look at the challenges of open foundation models in our bi-weekly AI Regs & Risks column.....CHECK IT ALL OUT BELOW!

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AI & Finance™ | News for the Week Ending 5/31/24

When technology moves as quickly as artifical intelligence in finance has over recent months, it begins stretching and distorting our civic and cultural codes and norms which were created within-and for-a different world. Take the law. AI is already changing law as we know it in different ways......CONTINUE HERE

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Top 5 VC Transactions in AI (5/31/24)

The week's top five funded deals were in customer support, biotech, scientific text, AI chips and a SaaS marketplace. It's always a diverse crowd - but what's interesting this week is that nothing in this list touched the financial sector.....CONTINUE HERE

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AI EDUCATION: What (or Who) is Sophia?

We first wrote about Sophia in 2016, at our prior media firm FintekNews. Sophia was receiving HUGE media coverage on national news at the time. I recently wondered what was up with this project and decided to research. In typical fashion for internet research, some declared the project dead, and yet we saw that just two weeks ago, "she" gave the commencement speech at D'Youville University in Buffalo, NY..... CONTINUE HERE

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AI REGS & RISK: The Dark Side of AI, Part 2 - Open Foundation Models and Their Risks

Open foundation models, which you might know as open-source AI models, are freely accessible to everyone. Think of open foundation models as the wild west of AI. They're models whose code and weights are out in the open for anyone to use, tweak, and deploy. This openness is fantastic for innovation and collaboration, but it also opens the door to some pretty scary possibilities.....CONTINUE HERE

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The Daily AI | Your Trusted Resource for AI/ML News

Google's AI search overview had several errors | The EU was back again with its AI law | Truecaller and Microsoft have personalized AI voices for interactions | Tech firms (now) want to make AI movies in Hollywood | French President Macron optimistic about AI.....CONTINUE HERE TO VIEW & SUBSCRIBE

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