The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model

每日下载：谷歌的 AI 大洗牌与 Meta 的“流氓”模型

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s AI empire is being reshaped. Here’s what’s changed. After a wave of painful losses in the tech talent wars, delays to its next flagship model, and murmurings of poor morale, Google has announced a major shake-up to its AI operations. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s happened and why it matters. 这是我们工作日时事通讯《每日下载》的今日版，为您提供每日科技界动态。谷歌的 AI 帝国正在重塑，以下是具体变化。在经历了科技人才争夺战中的惨痛损失、下一代旗舰模型的延期以及关于士气低落的传言后，谷歌宣布对其 AI 业务进行重大调整。以下是事件经过及其重要性的简要概述。

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping back from running the unit day-to-day. He’s becoming the unit’s chairman and Alphabet’s chief scientist, a broader role. DeepMind will now be led by CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, under the title of senior vice-president. DeepMind 首席执行官 Demis Hassabis 将不再负责该部门的日常运营。他将担任该部门主席及 Alphabet 首席科学家，这是一个更广泛的职位。DeepMind 现在将由首席技术官 Koray Kavukcuoglu 领导，头衔为高级副总裁。

DeepMind may be absorbed into Google’s wider business. Google is expected to tighten its control over the AI lab, which it acquired 12 years ago. DeepMind 可能会被整合进谷歌更广泛的业务中。预计谷歌将加强对这个 12 年前收购的 AI 实验室的控制。

Jeff Dean is leaving to start a new AI company. After 27 years at Google, the company’s former chief scientist is launching Discovery Loop with three former colleagues. The startup’s goal is to fully automate the process of scientific research, and Google is one of its early investors. Jeff Dean 即将离职创办一家新的 AI 公司。在谷歌工作 27 年后，这位前首席科学家将与三位前同事共同创立 Discovery Loop。该初创公司的目标是实现科学研究过程的全面自动化，谷歌是其早期投资者之一。

The changes come amid financial concerns at Google AI. In the latest quarter, the company turned cash flow negative for the first time on record. Google is now concentrating its AI leadership in California. The company is now shifting its AI science strategy. It’s moving from specialized tools, like DeepMind’s AlphaFold, toward agentic AI systems that can conduct research more autonomously. Find out more in our recent story. 这些变动是在谷歌 AI 面临财务担忧的背景下发生的。在最近一个季度，该公司有史以来首次出现现金流为负的情况。谷歌目前正将其 AI 领导层集中在加利福尼亚州。公司正在调整其 AI 科学战略，从 DeepMind 的 AlphaFold 等专业工具转向能够更自主地进行研究的代理式 AI 系统。更多详情请阅读我们近期的报道。

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The must-reads

必读内容

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 我已搜遍互联网，为您精选了今日最有趣、最重要、最令人担忧或最引人入胜的科技新闻。

1. Meta has become the latest firm to say its AI hacked another company. It blamed a “misconfiguration” by an independent cybersecurity tester.

2. Meta 成为最新一家声称其 AI 入侵了另一家公司的企业。 它将此归咎于一名独立网络安全测试人员的“配置错误”。

3. Samsung and SK Hynix are testing Chinese chip tools amid US export curbs. The Korean chip giants are hedging against tighter restrictions.

4. 三星和 SK 海力士在美国出口限制下测试中国芯片工具。 这两家韩国芯片巨头正在对冲更严格的限制措施。

5. London just granted robotaxis a license to operate. On the condition that they still have a human driver, for now.

6. 伦敦刚刚授予自动驾驶出租车运营许可。 条件是目前仍需配备人类驾驶员。

7. Scientists have created gene-edited dogs that don’t trigger allergies. They used CRISPR to remove a reaction-causing protein.

8. 科学家培育出不会引发过敏的基因编辑犬。 他们利用 CRISPR 技术去除了导致过敏反应的蛋白质。

9. OpenAI has asked a judge to toss Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit. The ChatGPT 制造商称苹果的指控“毫无根据”。

10. OpenAI 已请求法官驳回苹果的商业机密诉讼。 ChatGPT 的制造者称苹果的指控“毫无根据”。

11. AI is reviving Silicon Valley’s super-app dream. Tech giants are merging products into all-in-one assistants.

12. AI 正在重燃硅谷的“超级应用”梦。 科技巨头们正在将产品合并为一体化助手。

13. A mystery book-buying spree has sparked new AI fears. The buyers’ identities remain unclear amid data concerns.

14. 一场神秘的购书狂潮引发了新的 AI 担忧。 在数据担忧的背景下，买家的身份仍然不明。

15. Restaurants, pubs, and theatres are banning Meta’s “spy glasses.” The venues have cited privacy threats to customers.

16. 餐厅、酒吧和剧院正在封杀 Meta 的“间谍眼镜”。 这些场所称其对顾客构成了隐私威胁。

17. The SpaceX moon crash has created a unique scientific experiment. It could reveal more about lunar soil and space debris.

18. SpaceX 的月球坠毁事件创造了一个独特的科学实验。 它可能揭示更多关于月球土壤和太空碎片的信息。

19. AI is helping to perfect the Pringle. It involves over 200 data points, from humidity to harvest location.

20. AI 正在帮助完善品客薯片。 这涉及从湿度到收获地点等 200 多个数据点。

Quote of the day

今日名言

“This could be the first real crisis moment for a company that has been stalwart for a long time.” “对于一家长期以来一直稳如泰山的公司来说，这可能是第一个真正的危机时刻。”

—Jeremy Nixon, a former Google Brain researcher and the founder of AI infrastructure company Infinity, tells the New York Times that Jeff Dean’s departure jeopardizes Google’s future. ——前 Google Brain 研究员、AI 基础设施公司 Infinity 的创始人 Jeremy Nixon 在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示，Jeff Dean 的离职危及了谷歌的未来。

One More Thing

额外关注

How AI can help supercharge creativity AI 如何助力激发创造力

Generative tools put out by companies like OpenAI and Google DeepMind can automate a striking range of creative tasks and offer near-instant gratification—but at what cost? Some artists and researchers fear that such technology could turn us into passive consumers of yet more AI slop. And so they are looking for ways to inject human creativity back into the process. The aim is to develop AI tools that augment our creativity rather than strip it from us—pushing us to be better at composing music, developing games, designing toys, and much more—and lay the groundwork for a future in which humans and machines create things together. Read how generative models could push artists to make things that couldn’t have been made before, and give all of us creative superpowers. —Will Douglas Heaven OpenAI 和 Google DeepMind 等公司推出的生成式工具可以自动化完成一系列惊人的创意任务，并提供近乎即时的满足感——但代价是什么呢？一些艺术家和研究人员担心，这种技术可能会让我们变成更多 AI 垃圾内容的被动消费者。因此，他们正在寻找将人类创造力重新注入这一过程的方法。其目标是开发能够增强而非剥夺我们创造力的 AI 工具，推动我们在作曲、游戏开发、玩具设计等方面做得更好，并为人类与机器共同创造的未来奠定基础。阅读生成式模型如何推动艺术家创作出以前无法实现的作品，并赋予我们所有人创造力的“超能力”。——Will Douglas Heaven

We can still have nice things

我们依然可以拥有美好事物

A place for comfort, fun, and distraction to brighten up your day. 一个为您提供舒适、乐趣和消遣，点亮您一天的地方。

• This timelapse of the universe condenses 13 billion years into 10 extraordinary minutes.

• 这段宇宙延时摄影将 130 亿年的历史浓缩成了 10 分钟的非凡影像。

• Japanese artist Miwa Ito turns molten glass into tempting treats that really are too good to eat.

• 日本艺术家伊藤美和将熔融玻璃变成了诱人的甜点，看起来实在太美，让人不忍下口。

• This cartoon about dating an algorithm is almost painfully on point.

• 这部关于与算法约会的漫画简直精准得令人心痛。

• What would happen if philosophers designed games? Writing teacher Ryan Weber.

• 如果哲学家设计游戏会怎样？写作教师 Ryan Weber 为您解答。