Snap is bringing ads to two if its most buzzy features: its TikTok clone, Spotlight, and its OpenAI-powered chatbot "My AI." The company announced the new ad formats during its presentation at the NewFronts advertising event. Snap began testing ads in Spotlight last year, but will now begin to roll them out globally. The addition could be a significant boost to Snap's advertising business, which has taken a hit in recent months. Spotlight, which rewards creators for popular short-form videos, has more than 350 million monthly users according to the company.

Thomas Fuchs, the Dean of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at Mount Sinai in NYC, said AI will be needed to retain the standard of care in the U.S. Ashton Kutcher is betting on artificial intelligence, investing millions in the technology through his investment fund, Sound Ventures, and saying he believes the technology has the potential to change industries from medicine to law. "A lot of people have thought historically about AI as this foreign object that acts upon you," Kutcher said at the Milken Global Institute Monday. "What we're finding right now … is that it's a tool that people can use. And I think that's a really beautiful thing." Ashton Kutcher's'Sound Ventures' has invested millions in artificial intelligence.

LinkedIn is experimenting with a new generative AI feature for job hunters. The company is testing a new feature that will generate brief, cover letter-like messages candidates can send to hiring managers on the platform. The feature is starting to roll out now for the site's premium subscribers. With the update, users will see the option to "Let AI draft a message to the hiring team" alongside open roles on the platform's jobs page. The feature draws on "information from your profile, the hiring manager's profile, the job description, and the company of interest" to create a "highly personalized" message, according to the company.

While many workers worry AI bots will take their jobs, Samsung employees are no longer allowed to use them. The company banned generative AI tools, like ChatGPT and Google Bard, after discovering staff had added sensitive code to them, Bloomberg reported. This revelation followed last month's incident in which Samsung engineers uploaded internal source code and meeting notes to ChatGPT and accidentally leaked it. Samsung isn't waiting for another mishap to take action. "HQ is reviewing security measures to create a secure environment for safely using generative AI to enhance employees' productivity and efficiency," the company said in a memo to staff.

Nextdoor is introducing its first generative AI feature, an in-app "assistant" that can help users rewrite "potentially unkind" posts on the neighborhood social network. The new feature is rolling out "over the next several weeks." It's far from the first time the company has experimented with ways to remind users to keep conversations "neighborly." The company, which has at time struggled to fight the perception that its platform can be toxic, began using "kindness reminders" in 2019 and last year introduced pop-ups reminding users to be more "empathetic." The app has also served up more targeted nudges to promote anti-racist language and less heated political discussions.

But first, we need to talk about consent in AI. Last week, OpenAI announced it is launching an "incognito" mode that does not save users' conversation history or use it to improve its AI language model ChatGPT. The new feature lets users switch off chat history and training and allows them to export their data. This is a welcome move in giving people more control over how their data is used by a technology company. OpenAI's decision to allow people to opt out comes as the firm is under increasing pressure from European data protection regulators over how it uses and collects data.

Research connecting text and images has recently seen several breakthroughs, with models like CLIP, DALL-E 2, and Stable Diffusion. However, the connection between text and other visual modalities, such as lidar data, has received less attention, prohibited by the lack of text-lidar datasets. In this work, we propose LidarCLIP, a mapping from automotive point clouds to a pre-existing CLIP embedding space. Using image-lidar pairs, we supervise a point cloud encoder with the image CLIP embeddings, effectively relating text and lidar data with the image domain as an intermediary. We show the effectiveness of LidarCLIP by demonstrating that lidar-based retrieval is generally on par with image-based retrieval, but with complementary strengths and weaknesses. By combining image and lidar features, we improve upon both single-modality methods and enable a targeted search for challenging detection scenarios under adverse sensor conditions. We also explore zero-shot classification and show that LidarCLIP outperforms existing attempts to use CLIP for point clouds by a large margin. Finally, we leverage our compatibility with CLIP to explore a range of applications, such as point cloud captioning and lidar-to-image generation, without any additional training. Code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/atonderski/lidarclip.

Since its establishment in 1914, the US Federal Trade Commission has stood as a bulwark against the fraud, deception, and shady dealings that American consumers face every day -- fining brands that "review hijack" Amazon listings, making it easier to cancel magazine subscriptions and blocking exploitative ad targeting. On Monday, Michael Atleson, Attorney, FTC Division of Advertising Practices, laid out both the commission's reasoning for how emerging generative AI systems like ChatGPT, Dall-E 2 could be used to violate the FTC Act's spirit of unfairness, and what it would do to companies found in violation. "Under the FTC Act, a practice is unfair if it causes more harm than good," Atleson said. "It's unfair if it causes or is likely to cause substantial injury to consumers that is not reasonably avoidable by consumers and not outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or to competition." He notes that the new generation of chatbots like Bing, Bard and ChatGPT can be used to influence the user's, "beliefs, emotions, and behavior."

For at least a decade, Elon Musk has tried to steer the development of artificial intelligence--only to be outmaneuvered by rivals and former allies. He has now stepped up his efforts after the success of OpenAI, an organization he co-founded but then left after a power struggle. Mr. Musk has warned for years that poorly built artificial intelligence could have catastrophic effects on humanity. Since OpenAI's ChatGPT became a viral sensation last November, Mr. Musk has denounced it as politically correct and warned it could lead AI to become too powerful for humans to control.

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence has made a high-profile exit. Geoffrey Hinton, nicknamed the "godfather of AI," tells The New York Times he resigned as Google VP and engineering fellow in April to freely warn of the risks associated with the technology. The researcher is concerned that Google is giving up its previous restraint on public AI releases in a bid to compete with ChatGPT, Bing Chat and similar models, opening the door to multiple ethical problems. In the near term, Hinton is worried that generative AI could lead to a wave of misinformation. You might "not be able to know what is true anymore," he says.