Short Friday news; Meta’s bias checker, how to deal with children, Gemini’s new memory, and more

Metas new bias-chief is a right wing influencer who crusaded against DEI politicies
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Meta’s new «bias»-checker is a right-wing influencer
Robby Starbuck rose to fame as an influencer campaigning against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the USA. He often sued companies to force them to end such policies, and even sued Meta after their AI wrongly implicated him in the events of January 6.

Now the suit is settled and he has a new job offer; as a Meta advisor to address «ideological and political bias» in their AIs. This is what Trump meant when he went against «woke» AI, and Meta says they have made «tremendous strides to improve the accuracy of Meta AI and mitigate ideological and political bias» since working with Starbuck.
More at The WSJ, The Verge, Mashable and MSNBC.

Gemini now defaults to remembering previous chats
Google Gemini’s new feature is always on by design, and will remember your older chats without specifically asking. The feature delivers «more personalized responses the more you use it,» Google says. It will remember «key details and preferences you’ve shared, leading to more natural and relevant conversations, as if you’re collaborating with a partner who’s already up to speed.»

It can be turned off by going to Settings, then «Personal context.» There is also an option called «Temporary Chats» that won’t be remembered.
More at Google’s launch post, The Verge and 9to5Google.

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So, who really has the most GPUs in the AI race?

AI companies are investing greatly in GPUs and its hard to catch up. Here's what we know so far.
According to this chart, the best compute units are GPUs, by far — and those green dots are all made by Nvidia. (Picture: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0)
Sam Altman says OpenAI will deploy more than a million GPUs by the end of the year. Meta says it’ll beat that. Elon says xAI is building the world’s biggest AI supercomputer.

But here’s the truth: None of these numbers are easy to verify — and each company counts differently.

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Grok’s new «companions:» sex crazed lovebot and a profane firestarter

Profanity or naughty, Groks new "companion" looks for your seedy underbelly -- not aloof phiosophy.
Looking at the seedier underbelly of the Internet for inspiration? NSFW and profanity laden animated avatars lead the way for Grok.
Just a few hours after Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot launched two AI animated avatars, the Internet had a chance to test them out.

One is a sexy anime waifu called Ani, that «is obsessed» with you and totally in love. The bot gets more and more NSFW as you progress and «level up» to lingerie views and increasingly raunchy chats, writes TechCrunch.

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