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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
The fight for AI talent continues, this time with Elon Musk speaking up about OpenAI targeting his engineers. Meanwhile, Suno, the AI music generation company, might be encountering problems with copyright infringement.
Let's get into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
A Chart to Kickstart Your Day 📈: Top industries by expected use of AI in the near future
Elon Musk Boosts AI Engineer Pay in 'Craziest Talent War' 💸
Suno AI Accused of Copyright Infringement
🚨 Job Opportunity
AI Tutorial: How to modify images directly in ChatGPT
AI Tools to check out
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
A chart to kickstart your day
Top industries by expected use of AI in the near future
The U.S. Census Bureau released data revealing the extent of AI adoption among businesses. They were surveyed about their current and future use of AI.
Food service and retail stand out as both report fairly limited use of AI right now but expect huge increases over the next few months.
AI News
AI TALENT WARS
Elon Musk Boosts AI Engineer Pay in 'Craziest Talent War' 💸
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is taking drastic measures to keep his top AI engineers from defecting to OpenAI.
Details:
Musk announced that Tesla is significantly increasing compensation for its engineering AI team, contingent on meeting progress milestones.
This comes after reports that Tesla machine learning scientist Ethan Knight became the third engineer to leave Tesla for xAI.
Musk confirmed Knight was poached by OpenAI, saying "it was either xAI or them" - indicating he had to pay extra to retain Knight for his xAI company
“They have been aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers with massive compensation offers and have unfortunately been successful in a few cases” he said in response to a post in X.
He described the talent war for AI experts as "the craziest talent war I've ever seen"
As companies race to build the next breakthrough in AI, the ability to attract and retain skilled engineers has never been more critical.
SUNO AI
Suno AI Accused of Copyright Infringement
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In an article for Music Business Worldwide, AI expert Ed Newton-Rex has leveled serious allegations against the music AI company Suno. Newton-Rex claims Suno may have trained its generative AI models on copyrighted music without the consent or compensation of the original artists.
Details:
Newton-Rex extensively tested Suno's platform and found numerous examples of AI-generated songs bearing striking similarities to well-known hits.
He cited parallels between Suno's output and popular songs by artists like Eminem, Ed Sheeran, ABBA, Oasis, and Blink-182 in terms of style, melody, harmony, and instrumentation.
While Suno blocks prompts containing artist names, Newton-Rex discovered that small misspellings could bypass the filter.
Newton-Rex argued this high degree of similarity strongly suggests Suno's models were trained on the original copyrighted recordings. Suno has not commented on its training data or responded to these claims.
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AI Tutorial
How to modify images directly in ChatGPT
OpenAI added editing to Dall-E 3 a few days ago. This new feature lets you modify anything on the image you generate directly in ChatGPT.
To use this new feature just follow these steps:
Generate your image
Write a prompt and generate an image as you normally would. Once the image is generated, click on it to access the second interface.
Add an element
Click on the "Select" option at the top of your image
Select the part of the image where you want to add an element
Then enter your prompt:
An example could be "Add bows", then just wait a few seconds and see the result:
Modify the image
You can modify parts of the image by following the same steps as before.
For instance, if you select the dog's eyes and add the prompt 'make its eyes green,' ChatGPT will take care of applying the change.
Check the final prompt
ChatGPT updates the image prompt in real time as you make changes, and you can review them by clicking on the 'i' icon.
You can save this prompt to generate a similar image later.
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The latest in AI and Tech
In an interview with Bloomberg, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan expressed that if OpenAI had used YouTube videos to train its text-to-video AI model Sora, it would be a "clear violation" of the platform's policies. Mohan's comments come after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati acknowledged uncertainty around the sources used to train Sora, including the potential use of YouTube content.
The AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) feature, which has been tested in the US, will now appear for select UK users. AI answers will only appear for questions “where current trials have suggested they were helpful.”
Nvidia plans to build a $200 million AI center in Indonesia, partnering with local telecom firm Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison. The new facility, set to be located in Surakarta, Central Java, aims to enhance the country's telecommunications infrastructure, human resources, and digital talent as part of Nvidia's broader push into the Southeast Asian market.
Resemble AI has launched a new feature called Rapid Voice Cloning that accelerates the process of generating AI voice clones. The tool can create voice duplicates from minimal datasets in just around a minute.
Google is exploring the possibility of introducing a paywall for certain generative AI-powered features within its search engine. If implemented, this move would make some of Google's core products available only to paying customers, representing a significant change to the tech giant's business strategy.
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