Websites can now opt out of Google's Bard and future AI training 🔒

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Google tackles ethical concerns around consent and data privacy by announcing Google-Extended. Mistral AI gives everyone the chance to try their new LLM for free

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• A chart to kickstart your day 📈: AI Adoption, by Industry

• Websites can now opt out of Google's Bard and future AI training 🔒

• Mistral opens up its first Large Language Model for everyone 🎇

• Trending AI tool: Pilot, the Social Trip Planning Tool

• AI image of the day 🎨: Recreating starter Pokemon on Midjourney

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

A chart to kickstart your day

AI Adoption, by Industry

Key details:

• AI adoption is growing rapidly, with half of all organizations now using AI tools for at least one function within their operations.

• The finance industry is the frontrunner in AI adoption, using AI to manage complex risk challenges and detect fraud and market fluctuations.

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GOOGLE

Websites can now opt out of Google's Bard and future AI training

Google recently announced Google-Extended, a new control that websites can now use to opt out of having their content used to train AI models like Bard.

Key Details:

• This new option gives website owners more control and agency over how their content is utilized.

• Previously, Google could scrape websites without permission to gather massive amounts of text data to train its AI systems. This raised ethical concerns around consent and data privacy.

• By allowing sites to opt-out, Google enables publishers to decide whether or not to contribute to AI training.

Allowing sites to opt out provides more transparency into AI's enormous data demands and highlights the need for consent in training machine learning models.

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MISTRAL AI

Mistral opens up its first Large Language Model for everyone

Mistral, a French AI startup, has released their first large language model called Mistral 7B - and it's completely free for anyone to use! This model marks an exciting development in open and accessible AI.

Key Details::

• Mistral 7B is a 13.4 GB model available via torrent download or GitHub repository. It's released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license so anyone can use it for any purpose as long as they attribute Mistral.

• The model offers capabilities comparable to other "small" large language models like Llama 2 but at lower compute costs. While not as advanced as GPT-4, it's far more accessible since those models are only available via API.

• Mistral claims their model outperforms others of similar size.

While not fully open source (the datasets, training process, and weights remain proprietary), it lowers barriers and empowers hobbyists and businesses alike to leverage large language models.

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Trending AI tool

Pilot, The Social Trip Planning Tool

The travel startup Pilot emerged from stealth this week with its AI-powered social trip planning platform. The Vancouver-based company aims to become the go-to hub for discovering, planning, booking, and sharing trips.

Details:

• Pilot's AI trip planner Quickstart creates personalized itineraries based on users' preferences. Users can chat with the AI to request edits.

• After trips, users can write blog posts to share their experiences.

• Pilot operates on an affiliate model, earning commissions from bookings made on its platform.

Pilot's web app is live now, with a mobile app coming later this year. It currently serves English-speaking countries.

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AI Image of the day

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