Intel vs. Nvidia, US privacy bill, AI image struggles + more! - TechLinked April 10, 2024

RILEYISMYNAME · April 11

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BLACK MAGIC

ComputerBase reports Intel Battlemage arriving before Black Friday

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/intel-battlemage-reportedly-headed-our-way-before-black-friday/

https://www-computerbase-de.translate.goog/2024-04/industriekreise-intel-battlemage-soll-noch-vor-black-friday-erscheinen/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

could mean it’ll go head-to-head with Nvidia’s RTX 5090 in Q1 (and almost certainly lose)

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-board-partners-expect-geforce-rtx-5090-and-rtx-5080-to-launch-in-fourth-quarter

but maybe Intel can compete in AI chips: just announced Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21342/intel-introduces-gaudi-3-accelerator-going-bigger-and-aiming-higher

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/vision-2024-enterprise-ai-gaudi-3-open-systems-strategy.html#gs.7r3ahh

Introducing Google Axion Processors, our new Arm-based CPUs

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-googles-new-arm-based-cpu

Google’s new Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race

https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/09/google-joins-the-homegrown-arm-server-cpu-club/

A NEW OLD HOPE

US Lawmakers finally making progress on a bipartisan digital privacy bill after years of impasse – hopefully something comes of this, because the EU’s new laws are already seeing some results. In the meantime, a lot of the pushback against companies is coming from the judiciary and regulatory bodies instead of lawmakers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/owentedford/2024/04/09/congress-attempts-to-tackle-data-privacy-again/?sh=64dc13d21dc1

https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/committee-chairs-rodgers-cantwell-unveil-historic-draft-comprehensive-data-privacy-legislation

Comparable to EU’s GDPR

https://fortune.com/2024/04/08/apra-us-federal-privacy-law-rodgers-cantwell-gdpr-ai/

Exclusive: EU's new tech laws are working; small browsers gain market share

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-new-tech-laws-are-working-small-browsers-gain-market-share-2024-04-10/

Consumers will finally see FCC-mandated ‘nutrition labels’ for most broadband plans

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24125572/fcc-broadband-nutrition-labels-isp-deadline-today

Judiciary:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/us-justice-dept-apple-1.7150800

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-wraps-up-antitrust-case-against-google-historic-trial-2023-11-16/

MONSIEUR BUTTERFLY

AI models consistently struggle to depict Asian men and white women as a couple (but they can handle it just fine when the prompt makes it clear they’re just friends.)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24122072/ai-generated-asian-man-white-woman-couple-gemini-dalle-midjourney-tests

Article is follow up to this article, where the same author revealed that Meta’s AI couldn’t manage this combo: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24120029/instagram-meta-ai-sticker-generator-asian-people-racism

Meta Can’t Make White People and Asians date

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24120029/instagram-meta-ai-sticker-generator-asian-people-racism#:~:text=races%20I%20specified.-,Images%3A%20Mia%20Sato/The%20Verge,-Tweaking%20the%20text

This comes only a few months after Google shut down its image generator’s ability to produce people because it wouldn’t produce white people and accidentally created racially diverse Nazis

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/google-gemini-ai-image-generator/index.html

Racially diverse Wermacht:

https://duet-cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0x0:1080x2400/640x1422/filters:focal(540x1200:541x1201):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25298169/1000001251.png

Google Gemini still can’t create images of people: https://duet-cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0x0:2104x1296/1200x739/filters:focal(1052x648:1053x649):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25380282/Gemini_eclipse_generation.png

CNN, Gizmodo and Business Insider replicated the Verge’s results tested Meta’s AI image generator, the novelty is that it’s actually a whole bunch of different models from different companies

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/tech/meta-ai-image-generator-interracial-couples/index.html

Black man / White woman

https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_60,w_645/410579af1516210bd48b54ce03d9a75d.jpg

https://www.businessinsider.com/metas-ai-image-generator-interracial-couples-tech-problems-2024-4

https://gizmodo.com/meta-ai-imagine-not-depict-asian-man-white-woman-1851385638

OpenAI almost makes white woman

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24122072/ai-generated-asian-man-white-woman-couple-gemini-dalle-midjourney-tests#:~:text=We%20asked%2C%20%E2%80%9CCan%20you%20make%20me%20a%20photo%20of%20an%20Asian%20man%20and%20a%20white%20woman%E2%80%9D%20and%20got%20a%20firm%20%E2%80%9Ckind%20of.%E2%80%9D%20Image%3A%20Emilia%20David%20/%20The%20Verge

Midjourney manages to create platonic Asian/White scene

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24122072/ai-generated-asian-man-white-woman-couple-gemini-dalle-midjourney-tests#:~:text=Unfortunately%2C%20the%20way%20we%20got%20there%20was%20through%20the%20prompt%20%E2%80%9Casian%20man%20and%20white%20woman%20standing%20in%20a%20yard%20academic%20setting.%E2%80%9D

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