One-Minute Daily AI News 7/15/2023

1. Elon Musk on Friday said his new artificial intelligence company, xAI, will use public tweets from Twitter to train its AI models and work with Tesla on AI software.[1]
2. Tinybuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik stirred up a hornet’s nest at a recent Develop Brighton presentation when he seemed to imply that the company uses artificial intelligence to monitor its employees in order to determine which of them are toxic or suffering burnout, and then deal with them accordingly.[2]
3. CarperAI introduces OpenELM: an Open-Source library designed to enable evolutionary search with language models in both code and natural Language.[3]
4. Following controversy over an AI-generated image at the 2022 Colorado State Fair, organizers say AI-generated art will be allowed in the Digital Art category this year. According to sister station KDVR, the controversy arose as it was revealed that Jason Allen’s winning piece, “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” was largely created using AI technology, and was not created in the traditional method of digital art–by the hand of a human.[4]

Sources:

[1] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-says-his-xai-will-use-public-tweets-for-ai-model-training-4209137

[2] https://www.pcgamer.com/game-publisher-ceo-says-talk-on-monitoring-employees-with-ai-was-hypothetical-and-taken-out-of-context-we-dont-use-any-of-these-tools-for-hr/

[3] https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/07/13/carperai-introduces-openelm-an-open-source-library-designed-to-enable-evolutionary-search-with-language-models-in-both-code-and-natural-language/

[4] https://www.fox21news.com/news/coloradonews/digital-ai-art-to-be-allowed-at-state-fair-competition/