Top Developments in Artificial Intelligence This Week (May 20 – May 27)
1. AI Weapons Scanner Fails to Detect Knife in High School Stabbing Incident

A high school student in New York was stabbed with a knife that the school’s AI weapons scanner failed to detect. The incident occurred at Proctor High School in Utica on Halloween last year. The high school had invested in a multimillion-dollar AI weapon detection system from Evolv Technology. The 18-year-old victim suffered stab wounds to the head, neck, shoulder, back, and hand. Since the stabbing, three more knives have been found on students that the AI weapons scanner did not detect. The scanners have been removed from Proctor High School but are still being used in the district's 12 other schools. Evolv Technology stated in a statement that it regrets the incident and that its mission is to create safer spaces where people gather.

2. Revolutionize your photo editing with Adobe's new "Generative Fill" AI tool!

Adobe has launched a generative AI tool, called "Generative Fill," in its Photoshop photo editing software that can add or remove elements from a picture instantly or extend a picture from a text prompt. Generative Fill can change a photo's sky from night to day and swap elements out quickly, as demonstrated by Adobe's finding that over 100 million assets have been generated from the AI tools in the six weeks since it launched. Photos can be edited in seconds, tasks that might have previously taken even advanced editors hours. Adobe's vice president of Photoshop product management and product strategy, Pam Clark, said bringing the capabilities of AI image creation and editing into Photoshop is an "incredible new capability" for creators. Generative Fill is in beta and is set to be available to users later in 2023.

3. Intel Announces New Chip for AI Computing to Compete with Nvidia and AMD in 2025

Intel is planning to introduce a new chip for artificial intelligence (AI) computing, known as Falcon Shores, in 2025. The chip will have 288GB of memory and support 8-bit floating point computation to be able to keep up with the increasingly large data sets used in AI models.

The details are part of a shift in strategy for Intel, which plans to compete against Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. Intel has essentially no market share in AI, after its planned competitor chip, Ponte Vecchio, suffered years of delays. Falcon Shores is part of Intel's efforts to catch up with the market leaders, as Nvidia is expected to have another AI chip out by 2025, and AMD is expected to challenge Nvidia's position with the MI300.

4. The Rise of AI-Generated Podcasts: Will Audiences Develop Loyalty to the Novelty?

AI-generated podcasts are a new and strange genre of podcast, with startups such as ElevenLabs, WondercraftAI, and Podcastle introducing easy-to-use tools to generate AI voices in minutes.
Although nobody is keeping track of how many listeners this strange new genre of podcast has, there are a few AI podcasts that have found audiences, at least for their first few episodes.

The Joe Rogan AI Experience was the first AI-generated podcast to take off, cheating a little by using the cloned voice of the world’s most popular human podcast host. Dimitris Nikolaou, CEO of WondercraftAI, believes that audiences could develop loyalty to AI-generated podcasts, and his team created Hacker News Recap, which offers daily short summaries of the top stories on the Hacker News forum. However, other creators of AI-generated podcasts said that they don't expect audiences to like their output, especially once the novelty wears off.

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