🌁 Google suspends AI-image tool after backlash

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Google's AI image-generating tool faced significant backlash for its "pro-diversity" bias, resulting in the suspension of its image generation feature.

Here’s what we have for you this week:

📰 News: Google takes down AI image generator and NVIDIA’s GPU sales surged 409%

🎲 Misc: Apple Smart Ring, Microsoft partners with Intel, Stable Diffusion 3 and the first US moon landing in over 50 years.

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Google AI chatbot faces massive backlash

Black and Japanese "Founding Fathers of America," a South Asian woman Pope, and a black Viking.

These unexpected images, produced by Google's AI-Chatbot Gemini, ignited a controversy over accusations of pro-diversity bias.

In response, Google has suspended Gemini's image-generation feature. Launched earlier this month to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT, Gemini has struggled to make an impact.
Instead, it exposed human biases and ideologies in AI models, by changing historical facts in the name of diversity.

NVIDIA revenue up 265% on booming AI

NVIDIA has been one of the biggest gainers of AI boom. It’s data center GPU sales soared by staggering 409%, resulting in $24billion in sales!

As the only major hardware supplier for AI, NVIDIA's GPUs are extensively used to train large-scale AI models and to power the applications that utilize these models.

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