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Hassabis thinks that he is a new kind of artificial intelligence
Google has compared its artificial intelligence (AI) model ‘Gemini’ with OpenAI’s GPT-4 and said that it has done a “very thorough analysis” of the systems side by side. “There’s still things like action, and touch, more like robotics-type things,” Google’s VP for AI and AI-powered services Hassabis Vinyals said. Gemini can work with images, video…
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Data Centres have a huge water footprint
Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting faster than institutional processes for ensuring quality and accurate results, a study said. Researchers should ensure their data is findable and accessible, researchers said. However, half of the FAIR criteria are not met, which is especially important for artificial intelligence studies. The diversity of data sets has increased the risks…
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Everyone releases AI products quickly
Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has launched a new text-to-video model called ‘Runway’. The text-to-video model Runway is similar to the startup’s new artificial intelligence tool, ‘Claude 2.1’. The text-to-video model Runway is only open to researchers for now, before the general public is allowed to try it out. OpenAI CEO Altman had returned to the…
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Sam agreed to come back to OpenAI
Around 95% of OpenAI employees signed an open letter demanding the resignation of the company’s board, alleging they didn’t have the “capacity to perform their responsibilities” after the ouster of its Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. As many as 770 employees from around 70 countries signed the letter. The employees said they would join a…
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Sam Altman is a former OpenAI CEO
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, Co-founder of AI startup OpenAI, will join the company’s new computer vision and artificial intelligence division at Microsoft. Earlier, Microsoft had announced that it will invest “multibillion dollar” in OpenAI for research and development. Altman and Brockman had been working with Microsoft to…
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OpenAI’s Bizarre structure gave 4 people power to fire
Sam Altman, co-founder of artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, has rejoined Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. Greg Brockman, who was also part of the startup, will also join Microsoft. “This is an opportunity for Microsoft and our industry to come together in a new way,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said.
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What happens with the future of OpenAI when Sam Altman is fired
Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has ousted its CEO Sam Altman, two months after he was diagnosed with cancer. OpenAI’s board of directors, led by Musk and Altman, decided to fire him over disagreements with existing board members over the role of existing board members in choosing new members. Altman, who has served as…
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Sam Altman is no longer the CEO of the company
Mira Altman, the Co-founder of AI company OpenAI, took to Twitter on Friday and said, “I loved my time at OpenAI. He thinks artificial intelligence is the greatest leap forward of any of the technological revolutions we have had so far.” She added that an OpenAI CEO is not the answer to the question of…
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The new music tool creates tracks using famous singers’ voice clones
Google’s AI-powered music generation tool Lyria has been rolled out on YouTube, allowing artists to create music using artificial intelligence. The creators of music-generating systems that were used to training them will receive a cut of future ad revenue generated by videos featuring artificial intelligence. Earlier, the platform had announced new content guidelines for AI-generated…
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After meeting with China’s XI, Biden will host a solo press conference
After meeting with China’s Xi Jinping for the first time in a year, US President Joe Biden said that the two leaders “agreed to launch a dialogue…around managing artificial intelligence”, an official said. Biden further said that he and Xi also agreed to launch a communication between the two militaries. China and the US have…
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The countries began weaving a safety net using Artificial Intelligence
AI systems can be taught to make ethical choices to help humans be better at being human, a computer scientist has said. Ethical AI could even lead to insights about why humans make the moral choices they do, Oren Etzioni said. “States on the frontier of artificial intelligence development could take inspiration from the dual…
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Powerful computing efforts are launched to boost research
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It instructs the government to establish standards for protecting against the use of artificial intelligence to engineer dangerous biological materials and to create at least three national AI research institutes within 1.5 years. The order also directs the National Science Foundation (NSF)…
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Imagine if Biden’s executive order were inspired by The T-Rex
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order on the “safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence”. The order came after Biden met AI experts from around the world last month. The order will require all government agencies to develop a comprehensive framework for the use of AI, to ensure it…
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Microsoft does damage control with its new initiative
Microsoft is launching a new strategy called ‘Secure Future Initiative’ that will use automation and artificial intelligence to improve the security of its cloud services. It plans to cut the time it takes to mitigate cloud vulnerabilities by 50%. It is also planning to improve security defaults for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) out-of-the-box.
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The UK-led globalai summit is missing something
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence (AI). The order requires private projects that use AI to report safety data to the government. The Department of Homeland Security will be required to verify that their AI is safe for human use, it added. The US has over 1,500 projects in…
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Biden released an executive order instructing agencies to develop safety guidelines
US President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order seeking to ensure the “responsible and effective government use” of artificial intelligence (AI). The order has eight goals, including protecting privacy, advance equity and civil rights, protecting consumers, patients, support workers, promote innovation and competition, advance US leadership in AI technologies, and ensure responsible and…
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Doctors could make better diagnoses with the help of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping doctors make better diagnoses up to the date, a new study has shown. The study analysed medical imaging data from more than 100 healthcare facilities and used AI to identify a patient with Pulmonary Embolism (PCE) using echocardiograms and X-rays. It also found that AI-based systems can draft a medical…
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The UK’s artificial intelligence champion, Graphcore, is scrambling to stay afloat
Google CEO Tim Cook has said that people don’t necessarily think about artificial intelligence (AI) in their lives. “We do integrate it into our products…but people don’t necessarily think about it as AI,” Cook said in an interview with Good Morning America. However, he added, “We do integrate it into our products but people don’t…
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Trust is something studios need to do to do the right thing
As part of the WGA-AMPTP contract, computers can’t be used to write and rewrite written material and studios will not reveal if material is artificial intelligence-generated. The contract states that writers shouldn’t have their written material used to train artificial intelligence without their permission. It also states that studios won’t reveal if material is artificial…
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Now researchers must tame it in order to change science
Scientists have been asked about their views on the rise of Artificial Intelligence in science, including machine-learning and generative tools. One researcher wrote that it felt like he had copied the bad writing habits of humans. Johannes Niskanen, a physicist at the University of Finland, said science will move from ‘for humans by humans’ to…
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What to expect at the Surface and artificial intelligence event from Microsoft
Microsoft on Monday said that it will launch AI-powered web services for Windows and Surface devices under its new Experiences team led by Mikhail Parakhin. It also said that three new Surface devices are expected from Microsoft, but they are expected to feature features powered by artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, Panos Panay resigned as…
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Tech leaders are in the Senate to discuss the regulation of artificial intelligence
AI Insight Forum held by the US Senate’s Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was attended by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X’s Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Nvidia President Jensen Huang. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Artificial Intelligence before the forum. Schumer said the government needs a federal…
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Physicists have observed Oxygen 28 and raised fundamental questions
An artificial intelligence program has defeated humans in a competitive sport in real life for the first time. Skydio, a company that works on drones, put the controlcode into a virtual version of a race course, and then sent it around and around in virtual space for an hour of computing time. AI programs have…
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You will be able to go to meetings with the new artificially intelligent edition of the world’s largest search engine
Google Meet, the video conferencing platform, has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature called “Duet” at its Cloud Next conference which will allow users to attend meetings on their own. Duet will be available for $30 (around 1,800) per user. It will let users attend meetings on their behalf and will have AI-based lighting, sound…