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Week 50 of Data Happier, from Dappier

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AI News šŸ“°

  • Nearly 3,000 video game performers are voting on a tentative union deal that includes new protections on AI replica use - ensuring consent and ongoing compensation - as part of ongoing SAG-AFTRA negotiations. - source

  • In recent issues we’ve covered Meta’s perceived poaching of top AI talent from leading tech companies, namely OpenAI. Now Meta’s Superintelligence Labs adds Ruoming Pang, former head of AI models at Apple, to its growing roster of AI experts. – source

    • OpenAI hasn’t shied away from ā€˜hiring back’, with new reports that the AI researcher has added four key engineers from Tesla, Elon Musk’s xAI, and Meta.

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  • Grok requires some urgent tweaking, as a new update has the X-integrated AI spewing hate and calling itself ā€˜MechaHitler’ online. One report suggested that Grok’s instructions included to ā€œnot shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiatedā€ - source.

    • Decidedly worse than MechaGodzilla.

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Robots in the Wild šŸ¤–

  • Walmart is adding new GenAI features to its employees’ instructional app. The Walmart Associates app now uses GenAI to intuitively understand employees questions and help them find what they’re looking for. AI also powers a more contextual translation feature. - source

  • Grammarly has acquired SuperHuman, the popular AI-enabled email software. - source

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate šŸŒŽ

Not everything in the news can be about AI. Here’s some stuff you should know about:

  • Nearly every week it seems we bring you some wacky story about robots in China doing human-centric things in their own cold, calculating way. This week, a robot in China named ā€œShuang Shuangā€ is graduating high school?? - source

    • Shuang may have been shoved into a locker quite a few times over those long four years, but it was just to charge.

  • An unknown person or group used an AI voice clone to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio in an attempt to contact at least five high-level government officials in mid-June, according to the US State Department. - source

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