Weekly bulletin from AIport, issue #33

The world’s first AI art museum to open in LA, Brian Sewell proves irreplicable by AI, an ML model uncovers ancient writings in Peru, and much more.

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the latest issue of our AI Bulletin. We hope you find this week’s selection of ML and data news useful. Have a pleasant weekend — we look forward to connecting with you again next Friday!

North America

• Meta Connect 2024 wraps up in Menlo Park, California, with Mark Zuckerberg unveiling new AI solutions, including voice-activated editing and automatic dubbing. Check out this video summary.

• The world’s first immersive museum dedicated to AI art is set to open in downtown Los Angeles next year. 

• In an unusual Gadget Lab episode, WIRED writers explore the potential of underwater AI data centers to combat GPU overheating with seawater cooling.

• OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, abruptly announces her departure from the company, along with two other key executives.

Europe

• In the UK, an AI-written piece in the London Standard (formerly Evening Standard), attempting to imitate the style of the celebrated late art critic Brian Sewell, is deemed a failure by the Guardian and other outlets. 

• Olle Zachrison, Head of AI & News Strategy at Swedish Radio, gives an interview explaining how the company uses AI to gain new listeners and refine content recommendations.

Asia

• In China, ByteDance launches two new AI models for text-to-video and image-to-video generation based on user prompts. Preview courtesy of Dr. Jingtai Liu: here’s the original + translation.

• Digital Dubai, the government agency responsible for digital transformation across the emirate, announces the development of Dubai Data — a new AI platform that will enable both private and state entities to store and share data at scale.

Latin America

• In Peru, a team of archeologists led by Masato Sakai from Japan’s Yamagata University discovers hundreds of ancient drawings from the Nazca period using a specially designed AI model. 

Africa

• Drawing on a recent Afrilabs report, TechAfrica News publishes an editorial examining the rise of AI startups in Africa.

Australia

• In Melbourne, Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece posts AI-generated photos of future city parks, sparking criticism due to weird, hallucinatory artifacts present in the images: here’s a short audio recap from ABC Radio National.