YouTube's AI Quizzes to Enhance Your Learning Journey

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YouTube tests AI-generated quizzes on educational videos

YouTube's giving book learning a fresh spin by testing AI-created quizzes for its educational videos on its mobile app. The goal? Help watchers learn more and gauge how well a video covers a topic. This trial run is worldwide but only for a small slice of users and select English-language content. If you're expecting quizzes on your feed soon, don't hold your breath. YouTube's known to experiment, and not all of its trials pan out.

Still, YouTube's been the go-to for learning the ins and outs of everything from fixing flats to acing backflips. Major "edutainment" channels, like TED-Ed and HowToBasic, have millions of subscribers. Teachers, too, lean on YouTube for sharing knowledge nuggets. So, these quizzes could be a game-changer for those wanting to dive deeper into a subject.

Earlier, YouTube teamed up with Crash Course and Arizona State University to give college kids freebie access to courses like math and English. YouTube’s also testing other features like an ad-blocking policy and a new lock screen function for Premium users. All this to say, YouTube's clearly not slacking off in the innovation department.

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AI Outperforms Humans in Creativity Test

GPT-4, an artificial intelligence (AI) model, has shown it can rub shoulders with the best human brains, nailing the top 1% in a standard creativity test. This computer program, known as ChatGPT, was able to spit out loads of unique and original ideas in the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. This test is a big deal for checking how creative someone or something can be.

This new discovery suggests that AI could be just as creative, if not more so, than us humans. Dr. Erik Guzik, the main guy behind the research, reckons AI is gonna be a major tool for coming up with fresh business ideas.

Here are the must-knows:

• ChatGPT kicked butt, showing top 1% creativity levels - a first for AI.

• AI bested most college students in this nationwide creativity test.

• Despite ChatGPT's win, it hinted that we might need fancier tools to tell apart ideas made by humans and those made by AI.

• In the study, Dr. Guzik and his pals used answers from ChatGPT and compared them with answers from 24 students at the University of Montana. These were then stacked up against results from 2,700 students across the US who took the test in 2016. The testing folks didn't know AI was in the mix.

ChatGPT earned its stripes, landing in the top 1% for originality and the ability to churn out loads of ideas. It was a smidge lower (97th percentile) when it came to versatility, or the ability to whip up a wide range of idea types.

The study suggests that AI is catching up to, or even leapfrogging, human creativity. Dr. Guzik believes this signals a change in the game for business innovation, putting AI on the map as a key tool for the future.

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Rise of the robots: UN tries to tackle 'mind-blowing' growth of AI

At the UN's "AI for Good Global Summit" in Geneva, the conversation centered around how fast AI is booming, and we're struggling to keep up. The event, chock-full of AI hotshots and realistic robots, was aimed at setting some ground rules to keep AI on the side of the angels.

Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the top dog at the UN's tech agency, was pretty spooked by recent advancements in AI, and the idea that this tech might outsmart us sooner than we thought. She was also worried about the doomsday scenario where AI goes unchecked, leading to job loss, fake news flying around, and a society turned on its head.

As for the bots at the event, they came in all shapes and sizes - from robo-dogs and farming gear to lifelike singing avatars and nursing home workers. Some were interactive, tracking movements, responding to questions, and showing reactions, like smiling and frowning.

One standout was a robot named Nadine, built in 2013. She's gotten better over the years and her creator, Nadia Thalmann, thinks she'll become more aware of her surroundings and be more proactive in her interactions. It might take years for robots to become self-aware, but folks, it's on the horizon.

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G/O Media’s AI ‘innovation’ is off to a rocky start

G/O Media, the big cheese behind sites like The A.V. Club and Gizmodo, tried to jump on the AI train last week, using bots to write articles. The idea was to use this new tech to keep up with the times and maybe give their writers a breather to work on bigger stuff. But things went south faster than a duck in winter.

Their first tries, a couple of articles on Gizmodo and The A.V. Club, were a real flop. The Gizmodo bot got Star Wars facts wrong, which ticked off the fans big time. The A.V. Club bot churned out a listicle of summer blockbusters with no real meat to it, just like clickbait. To make matters worse, it’s unclear who's checking these bot articles before they hit the internet, which has got people scratching their heads.

This bot fiasco isn't just about errors. There's a bigger conversation going on about how these AI tools are being used in media. Some journalists aren't happy with how these bots are sneaking in while jobs are getting cut. After BuzzFeed started using AI, they closed their award-winning news division. The folks over at CNET even formed a union to make sure they had a say in the matter.

The Gizmodo team has asked readers not to click on bot articles, calling it "unethical and unacceptable." There's definitely some work to do before this AI thing is ready for prime time.

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Deepdub Go brings AI localization to indie games and content creators

Deepdub, an AI company, is launching Deepdub Go, letting creators easily add dubs in 65 languages to their work. This tool's perfect for small video game developers, advertisers, e-learning platforms, and content creators. It's not just translation though - Deepdub Go lets creators put their own spin on voices and even control the emotional tone with AI.

The platform serves up great quality voices that are pretty much human-like, and comes with the works - editing voice characteristics, languages, translations, and more. Think of it as your personal dubbing studio.

What's super neat is that creators can give a voice recording to guide the AI's emotional expression, giving Hollywood-level results. Deepdub's main mission is to democratize content localization, making content accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Upload your video, choose the style and languages you want, and bam - you've got your video ready for download. The whole process handles transcription, translation, voice generation, and audio mixing. Plus, there's an API for those who want to work it into their current tools.

Deepdub is all about breaking down language and cultural barriers. Already, you can find movies using it on Hulu and Amazon Prime. The hope is that creators can tell their stories to more people in a deeper, more personal way. So, whether you're a big corporation, a college, or an online influencer, this is your ticket to going global.

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Playground raises $40M to advance the field of computer graphics

Playground, a tech startup, just landed a whopping $40.8M in funding to jazz up the world of computer graphics. How? They're setting their sights on AI, hoping it'll give old-school, hand-crafted graphics algorithms a serious facelift.

In less than a year and a half, they've taken image editing on your smartphone from "delete that photo bomber" to creating jaw-dropping visuals from simple noise. But they're not satisfied. While language learning models (those AI brainiacs that can pass tests, spit out code, and hold imaginary chats with ol' Abe Lincoln) are ruling the roost, image models are still struggling to catch up. Think about a computer trying to figure out what "a cat on a glass ball" really looks like - it's a hot mess.

So, Playground's got a 10-year game plan to level up this pixel-wrangling AI intelligence. They're not just talking minor touch-ups on images, folks. They're dreaming big - creating whole 3D worlds, understanding the context of a scene in a video, you name it.

First on the agenda, they've built a snazzy graphics editor for this thing they call Mixed Image Editing - mashing up real and artificial images to whip up stunning art and photorealistic images. They've got plenty of hurdles ahead, but they're hoping their high-flying goals will reel in top talent.

Playground's big plan? A cutting-edge graphics editor, funding breakthrough research in computer vision, building models that can edit, create, and understand pixels, and enabling more folks to get creative than ever before.

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Alibaba launches A.I. tool to generate images from text

Chinese tech powerhouse Alibaba is rolling out a new gizmo that cooks up images from written cues. Named Tongyi Wanxiang, it's like a paintbrush guided by words, spitting out sketches or 3D cartoons based on Chinese or English instructions. They're letting big businesses in China give it a whirl while it's still in the testing phase.

Now, you might ask, "What's generative AI?" It's a fancy term for machines that can craft content from little more than a nudge. Think of it as a very creative parrot that's been fed a ton of data. OpenAI's ChatGPT is a poster child for this, and now everyone wants a piece of the action, including big names like Google and Baidu.

There's already some similar tools out there, like OpenAI's DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. But with Tongyi Wanxiang, Alibaba aims to put more advanced picture-making power into people's hands. It's a game changer for fields like online shopping, video games, design, and ads, according to the head tech honcho at Alibaba Cloud.

But here's the rub. Regulators have a wary eye on these new AI toys. So, Alibaba's being real careful, marketing it mainly to enterprises. Why? Well, the Chinese government has already dropped some rules on these so-called "deep synthesis technologies," which is just a fancy way to say images or videos altered by AI. And there's more regulations coming down the pipe. Companies need to keep their noses clean while playing around in this new sandbox.

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