Why is Zuckerberg changing his tone about AI?

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ZUCKERBERG CHANGES HIS MIND ABOUT FREE SERVICE 🤑

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What’s new? Two weeks ago, Meta announced that it was teaming up with Microsoft and Amazon to offer its large language model (LLM), Llama 2, on its partners’ cloud offerings without charging for access or use. However, in a 180 turn, Meta has now decided to charge these major cloud-computing companies for their service when they resell.

Why the change of heart? Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, said, “If you’re someone like Microsoft, Amazon, or Google, and you’re going to basically be reselling the services, that’s something that we think we should get some portion of the revenue for.” Zuckerberg is still calling Llama 2 open-source, but has nonetheless decided that cloud companies “do not get a free license to use it, but have to make a business arrangement with Meta.”

What does this mean? It’s not certain why Zuckerberg has gone back on what he said initially about providing Llama 2 for free, but this does bring into question how this sort of turn will impact future dealings from these large cloud computing companies with Meta.

MICROSOFT TO SUPPLY AI TECH TO JAPAN 🇯🇵

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What’s up? Microsoft is set to supply AI technology to the Japanese government.

What is the purpose? By collaborating with Microsoft and leveraging advanced AI capabilities, Japan aims to streamline administrative tasks and gain valuable insights from its vast array of government statistics. This development comes after Microsoft boosted the processing capabilities of its data centers in Japan. The country's Digital Agency plans to conduct a trial run of the AI technology, which is scheduled to begin sometime this fall. The trial will focus on utilizing the AI for tasks like generating meeting minutes and analyzing government statistics.

Why is this significant? This deployment marks a significant milestone for Microsoft as it represents the company's first venture into providing its AI technology outside of Europe. The move also highlights Japan's growing interest in harnessing the potential of AI to improve various governmental processes and data analysis.

AI IS HELPING SAVE ENDANGERED SPECIES 🙏

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What’s happening? A research collaboration between the Technical University of Catalonia and the Mamirauá Institute of Sustainable Development in Tefé, Brazil has developed ways to use AI to monitor biodiversity in the Amazon and threats to it.

How does this work? These researchers trained a neural network to recognize the whistles and clicks of two endangered dolphin species (the boto and the tucuxi) and contrast them to the sounds of rainfall and boat engines, as well as to some other popular wildlife and sea-life in the area. By placing microphones at several sites across the bottom of the water in the Amazon, this AI sound recognition was able to help the researchers accurately track the whereabouts of the dolphins in ways that would not have been possible without AI.

Why is this important? This innovation could lead to a new method of tracking endangered species to help preserve biodiversity and prevent threats to it in the Amazon and beyond. Additionally, using sound in this way is much less invasive and more accurate in tracking larger groups of sea-life than traditional GPS tags, boats, or aerial drones. 🙏

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