James Vincent

Bloomberg has done an amazing deep dive into the racial and gender biases in popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion.

Sadly, the results are exactly what you’d expect: generated images of people in higher-paying jobs are disproportionately white and male. And this pattern doesn’t just reflect social biases but amplifies it, as the graphic below shows.

Check out the full story here.

Microsoft is adding OpenAI’s GPT-4 to its Azure Government cloud service — a version of Azure with extra security protocols for government use. As reported by Bloomberg, that means agencies like the Defense Department, the Energy Department, and NASA will all have access (though exactly what they’ll be doing with the model isn’t clear). Bloomberg notes that any data entered by government employees won’t be used by OpenAI for training its systems.

Not many surprises from Apple’s CEO in this fluffy interview with Good Morning America. (Does he prefer apples or oranges? Good lord...) But it’s still interesting to see Apple carve its own path on AI, refraining from boarding the hype-train while Microsoft and Google scream ‘all aboard.’ Watch Cook below: