One-Minute Daily AI News 8/2/2024

1. Google pulls AI ad for Olympics following backlash.[1]
2. Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google.[2]
3. Now, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have introduced a calibration method tailored to large language models. Their method, called Thermometer, involves building a smaller, auxiliary model that runs on top of a large language model to calibrate it.[3]
4. Alibaba to Launch AI-Powered Assistant to Facilitate B2B Sourcing.[4]

Sources:

[1] ~https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/google-pulls-ai-ad-for-olympics-following-backlash.html~

[2] ~https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/02/character-ai-ceo-noam-shazeer-returns-to-google/~

[3] ~https://news.mit.edu/2024/thermometer-prevents-ai-model-overconfidence-about-wrong-answers-0731~

[4] ~https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2024/alibaba-to-launch-ai-powered-assistant-to-facilitate-b2b-sourcing/~