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Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup goes all in on AI; TikTok can generate AI songs

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Ishaan Mahajan
January 22, 2024

📱 Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup goes all in on AI

🧠 Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating AGI

🔒 48,000 companies sent Facebook data on a single person

🎶 TikTok can generate AI songs, but it probably shouldn’t

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📱 Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup goes all in on AI LINK

  • Samsung's new Galaxy S24 series focuses on AI, introducing features like Live Translate, Chat Assist, Transcript Assist, Note Assist, and Generative Edit, while also running Google's Gemini model for enhanced AI capabilities.

  • The Galaxy S24 phones offer new search capabilities with the "Circle to Search with Google" feature, allowing users to search by circling objects in images, and adding text-based questions to searches.

  • Samsung promises to bring the new AI features to older Galaxy devices, including the Galaxy S23 series and the Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5 models, extending support for Galaxy phones to seven years.

🧠 Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating AGI LINK

  • Mark Zuckerberg has announced his intention to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) and is integrating Meta's AI research group, FAIR, with the team building generative AI applications, to advance AI capabilities across Meta's platforms.

  • Meta is significantly investing in computational resources, with plans to acquire over 340,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by year's end.

  • Zuckerberg is contemplating open-sourcing Meta's AGI technology, differing from other companies' more proprietary approaches, and acknowledges the challenges in defining and achieving AGI.

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🔒 48,000 companies sent Facebook data on a single person LINK

  • A new study found that Facebook received data on individual users from an average of 2,230 companies per person, with 186,892 companies providing data on all study participants.

  • One participant's data was shared with Facebook by nearly 48,000 different companies, highlighting the extensive reach of Facebook's data-gathering from various businesses.

  • Volunteers pulled their data from Facebook and found that large retailers and data brokers, as well as smaller and unidentifiable businesses, frequently shared their information.

🎶 TikTok can generate AI songs, but it probably shouldn’t LINK

  • TikTok is testing a new feature, AI Song, which allows users to generate songs from text prompts using the Bloom language model.

  • The AI Song feature is currently in experimental stages, with some users reporting unsatisfactory results like out-of-tune vocals.

  • Other platforms, such as YouTube, are also exploring generative AI for music creation, and TikTok has updated its policies for better transparency around AI-generated content.