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  • Nasa Embraces AI: New AI tools excel at tasks such as identifying smoke from wildfires or counting trees in satellite imagery.

  • AI Chief's Role: David Salvagnini, NASA’s first chief AI officer, described his role as harmonizing AI efforts within the agency, likening it to conducting a symphony.

  • Key Functions of the CAIO: Driving innovative AI use at NASA, establishing a governance structure for responsible AI use, and providing AI learning opportunities for employees.

  • The Internal Debate

    • NASA's internal discussions revealed both excitement and concerns about generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

    • Emails from early 2023 showed strong internal demand for OpenAI tools and confusion about their appropriate use. Staff expressed frustration over the lack of access and clarity.

    • Although current policy prohibits the use of sensitive data on generative AI systems, NASA is working with leading vendors to approve these systems for sensitive data use soon.

  • Human Oversight: NASA emphasized that AI will be used in collaboration with humans and not replace them, acknowledging that AI tools can make mistakes.

The COAI Digest

  • OpenAI’s New Customization Tools (Read Here)

  • Google I/O 2024: AI Takes Center Stage (Read Here)

  • A Pivotal AI Copyright Ruling (Read Here)

  • Klarna’s AI Customer Service Agents (Read Here)

  • The Possibilities of AI – Sam Altman (Read Here)

  • Meta’s AI Ambitions: 3 Paths (Read Here)

Research

A New Google AI Agent

  • Google Project Astra: A New Frontier for AI-Powered Visual Search

  • What is Project Astra? A personal AI assistant that can answer questions about anything you see. A visual chatbot that combines Google Lens’ capabilities with advanced AI. By simply pointing your phone’s camera at objects, you can ask questions and get detailed answers.

  • How Does It Work? Project Astra leverages Google’s Gemini AI to understand the context of what your camera sees. It can then identify objects, analyze code on a computer screen, or even recognize landmarks.

Tool Spotlight

StarCoder is a Large Language Model for Code (Code LLM) that has been developed using permissively licensed data from GitHub, with a model trained on 1 trillion tokens and fine-tuned for 35 billion Python tokens, and it performs better than existing open Code LLMs.

AI Creations

Each Day we Highlight Cool Gen AI Art and Projects!

  • Generated by: Midjourney

  • Prompt: A modern 2-floored house in the forest

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