AI – Monday, July 29, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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Video Game Actors Under SAG-AFTRA Go On Strike Over AI, Pay | MMORPG.com

https://www.mmorpg.com/news/video-game-actors-under-sag-aftra-go-on-strike-over-ai-pay-2000132322

(Friday, July 26, 2024) “SAG-AFTRA actors cannot perform work for many major video games projects and interactive media, including promotional events, with some exceptions.”

Are We Running Out of Training Data for GenAI?

https://www.datanami.com/2024/07/26/are-we-running-out-of-training-data-for-genai/

Author: Alex Woodie

(Friday, July 26, 2024) “The advent of generative AI has supercharged the world’s appetite for data, especially high-quality data of known provenance. However, as large language”

OpenAI is talking to $700 billion chip giant you’ve never heard of to produce chip capable of rivaling Nvidia — Broadcom is bigger than Intel, AMD, Arm and Qualcomm together | TechRadar

https://www.techradar.com/pro/openai-is-talking-to-dollar700-billion-chip-giant-youve-never-heard-of-to-produce-chip-capable-of-rivaling-nvidia-broadcom-is-bigger-than-intel-amd-arm-and-qualcomm-together

(Saturday, July 27, 2024) “Could this chip form part of “Stargate”?”

D-Wave – D-Wave Announces Roadmap to Extend Leap Quantum Cloud Service for AI/ML

https://ir.dwavesys.com/news/news-details/2024/D-Wave-Announces-Roadmap-to-Extend-Leap-Quantum-Cloud-Service-for-AIML/default.aspx

“Including support for quantum-enhanced and energy efficient AI model training as well as integrating AI and optimization to address important customer use cases D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, today announced it is strengthening the connection between quantum optimization, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), by extending its product development roadmap with enhancements to the Leap™ quantum cloud service that will bring new Quantum AI solutions to market. The roadmap is intended to help customers address a variety of AI/ML workloads including pre-training optimization, more accurate and efficient model training, and opening new AI business use cases that require the integration of AI and business optimization, such as quantum supply chain optimization to support AI-predicted product demand requirements. In”

New C3 AI application aims to help government apply GenAI | TechTarget

https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/news/366595207/New-C3-AI-application-aims-to-help-government-apply-GenAI

“C3 AI introduced a new generative AI application to reduce contact center wait times at government agencies.”

Captured by the GenAI zeitgeist: How generative AI is shaping government transformation

https://govinsider.asia/intl-en/article/captured-by-the-genai-zeitgeist-how-generative-ai-is-shaping-government-transformation

“At the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit Washington DC 2024, GovInsider spoke to leaders from the cloud service provider to learn more about GenAI’s impact on digital transformation efforts within the public sector worldwide.”