In other news, Google has released its 2024 Environmental Report but avoided addressing the energy consumption of its AI. Figma has temporarily disabled its "Make Design" AI feature following accusations of copying Apple's Weather app designs. Meta is changing its "Made with AI" label to "AI info" in response to complaints about mislabeling real photos. New York state is distributing robot animals to the elderly to combat loneliness. Apple is reportedly planning to bring AI features to its Vision Pro mixed-reality headsets.
Key takeaways:
- The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the 'Chevron deference,' a ruling that allowed federal agencies to interpret ambiguous congressional laws. This could make nationwide AI regulation more difficult.
- Google has issued its 2024 Environmental Report, but has not addressed how much energy its AI uses. Figma has temporarily disabled its 'Make Design' AI feature due to accusations of copying Apple's Weather app designs.
- Researchers at Northeastern University are studying how text-generating models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o 'understand' and generate human-sounding text, focusing on the process of tokenization.
- A Meta research team has trained models to create 3D assets from text descriptions, which could be used in apps and video games. Apple may get an observer seat on OpenAI’s board as a result of their recent partnership.