5 things about AI you may have missed today: Google to use public info to train AI, tech layoffs, more
After announcing Gemini, a project by DeepMind aiming to surpass artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT yesterday, Google has now updated its privacy policy and is suggesting that it will only be using publicly available data to train its AI models. In other news, there is a growing number of tech layoffs due to the rise of AI which has concerned many researchers who believed tech roles would largely remain safe initially. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.
A report by Gizmodo has revealed that Google has updated its privacy policy and now suggests that it will use any data that is publicly available (can be read by Google) to train its AI models.
“Google uses the information to improve our services and to develop new products, features, and technologies that benefit our users and the public. For example, we use publicly available information to help train Google's AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities,” mentions the new policy.
The most important part of this newly updated privacy policy is that earlier Google said that the data will be used for its “language models”, which have now been replaced with “AI models”. This raises serious concerns about the privacy of individuals who post things online, as now it is not just about who has access to the data but the users do not even control how the data can be used.
It was speculated that this was one of the reasons why both Reddit and Twitter made drastic policy changes to keep AI data harvesting at bay.
A new report by CNN claims that there is a growing number of layoffs occurring in the tech sector, a majority of which are linked to AI. Many employees have been fired and hiring has
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