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Together.ai

Together AI welcomes Kai Mak as CRO to accelerate gen AI adoption for AI natives and enterprises globally

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Published: 2024-09-10T00:00:00



Together.ai

The Mamba in the Llama: Distilling and Accelerating Hybrid Models

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Published: 2024-09-09T00:00:00



NVIDIA Blog

NVIDIA and Oracle to Accelerate AI and Data Processing for Enterprises

Enterprises are looking for increasingly powerful compute to support their AI workloads and accelerate data processing. The efficiency gained can translate to better returns for their investments in AI training and fine-tuning, and improved user expe...

Published: 2024-09-11T13:00:51



NVIDIA Blog

AI on the Air: Behind the Scenes at IBC With Holoscan for Media

Launched this week in limited availability, NVIDIA Holoscan for Media is a software-defined, AI-enabled platform that helps developers easily integrate AI into their live media applications and allows media companies to run live media pipelines on th...

Published: 2024-09-11T13:00:06



NVIDIA Blog

Live Media Reimagined: NVIDIA Holoscan for Media Now Available for Production

Companies in broadcast, sports and streaming are transitioning to software-defined infrastructure to benefit from flexible deployment and to more easily adopt the latest AI technologies. NVIDIA Holoscan for Media, now in limited availability, is an A...

Published: 2024-09-09T16:00:09



NVIDIA Blog

How AI Is Personalizing Customer Service Experiences Across Industries

Customer service departments across industries are facing increased call volumes, high customer service agent turnover, talent shortages and shifting customer expectations. Customers expect both self-help options and real-time, person-to-person suppo...

Published: 2024-09-06T18:00:13



NVIDIA Blog

Three Ways to Ride the Flywheel of Cybersecurity AI

The business transformations that generative AI brings come with risks that AI itself can help secure in a kind of flywheel of progress. Companies who were quick to embrace the open internet more than 20 years ago were among the first to reap its ben...

Published: 2024-09-05T15:00:58



Biz & IT Ars Technica

As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library

Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months. Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The updates were made last week to SymCr... As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functi...

Published: 2024-09-12T00:20:08



Biz & IT Ars Technica

Taylor Swift cites AI deepfakes in endorsement for Kamala Harris

Taylor Swift on AI: "The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth." On Tuesday night, Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for US President on Instagram, citing concerns over AI-generated deepfakes as a key motivator. ... A screenshot of Taylor Swift's Kamala Harris Instagram post, captured on September 11, 2024. On Tuesday night, Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for US President on Instagram, citing concerns over AI-generated deepfakes as a key motivator. The artist's warning aligns with current trends in technology, especially in an era wh...

Published: 2024-09-11T19:56:30



Biz & IT Ars Technica

Roblox announces AI tool for generating 3D game worlds from text

New AI feature aims to streamline game creation on popular online platform. On Friday, Roblox announced plans to introduce an open source generative AI tool that will allow game creators to build 3D environments and objects using text prompts, rep... Someone holding up a smartphone with On Friday, Roblox announced plans to introduce an open source generative AI tool that will allow game creators to build 3D environments and objects using text prompts, reports MIT Tech Review. The feature, which is still under development, may stream...

Published: 2024-09-09T21:46:11



Biz & IT Ars Technica

Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US

Supply of processors helps Chinese startups advance AI technology despite US restrictions. The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in China than in the US, a sign that the advanced processor... Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in China than in the US, a sign that the advanced processors are easily reaching the Chinese market despite Washington’s export restrictions. Four small-...

Published: 2024-09-06T18:31:08



Biz & IT Ars Technica

FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

Feds say it's the first US criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with defrauding streaming services of $10 million through an elaborate scheme involving A... trucks forming piano keys in front of warehouse - isometric projection On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with defrauding streaming services of $10 million through an elaborate scheme involving AI, as reported by The New York Times. Michael Smith, 52, allegedly used AI to create hundreds...

Published: 2024-09-05T15:02:40



DailyAI

FTC asked to investigate AI summarizers for antitrust violations

A group of Democrat Senators has asked the FTC and DOJ to investigate whether new generative AI features such as summarizers on search platforms violate US antitrust laws. New features like Google’s AI Overviews and Search GPT are objectively useful ...

Published: 2024-09-11T09:49:57



DailyAI

FRVR AI and GenreX join forces to bring AI music composition to game developers

FRVR AI, a leader in AI-powered game development tools, has announced a groundbreaking partnership with GenreX, a cutting-edge music generation service. The partnership will directly integrate GenreX’s AI music technology into FRVR AI’s g...

Published: 2024-09-11T09:47:15



DailyAI

Goldman Sachs ChatGPT mistake causes AI market panic

A flawed report by Goldman Sachs analyst Peter Oppenheimer may have been behind the significant negative sentiment for AI shares over the last few days. There have been rumors of a potential AI bubble as tech prices continue to rise and Oppenheimer’s...

Published: 2024-09-10T14:30:51



DailyAI

Apple demoes iPhone 16 and ‘Apple Intelligence’ AI features at the Glowtime event

Apple unveiled its much-anticipated iPhone 16 lineup, and a sweeping array of AI intelligence features at its “Glowtime” product launch event. The highlight of the show was the official debut of “Apple Intelligence,” Apple’s a...

Published: 2024-09-09T19:12:28



DailyAI

Is Reflection 70B the most powerful open-source LLM or a scam?

HyperWrite founder and CEO Matt Shumer announced that his new model, Reflection 70B, uses a simple trick to solve LLM hallucinations and delivers impressive benchmark results that beat larger and even closed models like GPT-4o. Shumer collaborated wi...

Published: 2024-09-09T08:38:43



DailyAI

Is the video game industry facing an AI renaissance? What are the impacts?

Imagine playing the classic first-person shooter DOOM, but with a twist: the game isn’t running on code written by programmers; it’s being generated in real time by an AI system. This effectively describes GameNGen, a breakthrough AI mode...

Published: 2024-09-08T18:27:40



DailyAI

FBI busts $10 million AI music streaming scam run by a North Carolina ‘musician’

Federal prosecutors have charged a North Carolina ‘musician’ with orchestrating an elaborate $10 million fraud scheme using AI-generated music. Michael Smith, 52, was arrested Wednesday on charges of wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, and...

Published: 2024-09-07T18:17:28



DailyAI

Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI) raises $1 billion at $5 billion valuation

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has secured $1 billion in funding just three months after it was founded. The company, which aims to develop “safe” artificial general in...

Published: 2024-09-06T09:16:09



DailyAI

DAI#55 GPT Next, Colossus, and the all-seeing AI eye

Welcome to our weekly roundup of artisanal AI news. This week OpenAI teased us with “GPT Next”. Elon Musk flipped the switch on Colossus. And AI is watching you whether you like it or not. Let’s dig in. GPT When At the KDDI SUMMIT 2024 in Japan, Open...

Published: 2024-09-06T05:00:16



DailyAI

First international treaty signed to align AI with human rights, democracy, and law

The Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on AI was agreed on Thursday in Vilnius, Lithuania, marking a major step in aligning AI development with human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. The United States, European Union, United Kingdo...

Published: 2024-09-05T19:59:12



AI & ML Radar

The AI Blues

A recent article in Computerworld argued that the output from generative AI systems, like GPT and Gemini, isn’t as good as it used to be. It isn’t the first time I’ve heard this complaint, though I don’t know how widely held that opinion is. But I wo...

Published: 2024-09-10T09:53:05



Artificial intelligence MIT Technology Review

Google’s new tool lets large language models fact-check their responses

As long as chatbots have been around, they have made things up. Such “hallucinations” are an inherent part of how AI models work. However, they’re a big problem for companies betting big on AI, like Google, because they make the responses it generate...

Published: 2024-09-12T13:00:00



Artificial intelligence MIT Technology Review

2024 Innovator of the Year: Shawn Shan builds tools to help artists fight back against exploitative AI

Shawn Shan is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2024 Innovators Under 35. Meet the rest of this year’s honorees.  When image-generating models such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion kick-started the generative AI boom in early 2022... Shawn Shan - Innovator of the Year 2024 Shawn Shan is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2024 Innovators Under 35. Meet the rest of this year’s honorees.  When image-generating models such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion kick-started the generative AI boom in early 2022...

Published: 2024-09-10T11:00:00



Artificial intelligence MIT Technology Review

What impact will AI have on video game development?

This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. Video game development has long been plagued by fear of the “crunch” essentially, being forced to work overtime on a game to meet a deadl...

Published: 2024-09-10T09:00:00



Artificial intelligence MIT Technology Review

To be more useful, robots need to become lazier

Robots perceive the world around them very differently from the way humans do.  When we walk down the street, we know what we need to pay attention to passing cars, potential dangers, obstacles in our way and what we don’t, like pedestrians walk...

Published: 2024-09-09T15:12:04



Artificial intelligence MIT Technology Review

Roblox is launching a generative AI that builds 3D environments in a snap

Roblox plans to roll out a generative AI tool that will let creators make whole 3D scenes just using text prompts, it announced today. Once it’s up and running, developers on the hugely popular online game platform will be able to simply write “Gene... Roblox Texture Generator skins a 3d model of a backpack with "weathered red leather" as prompted by text

Published: 2024-09-06T17:30:00



Technology

Watch: Modular tilt-rotor aircraft makes maiden flight

Piasecki Aircraft's Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) tilt-duct VTOL aircraft has completed its maiden flight. On September 6 at Piasecki's West Helipad in Essington, Pennsylvania the autonomous rotorcraft made two tethered hover flights.C... ARES hoverig with cargo module

Published: 2024-09-11T09:02:00



Technology

New AI game engine generates playable DOOM in real time

So a diffusion model, denoising data, peak signal-to-noise-ratio, RL-agent, autoregressive model, and thermodynamics walk into a bar ... And now we can play the 1993 cult-classic first-person shooter, DOOM, generated in real-time by AI.Continue Readi... 1993 hit, first-person shooter, DOOM

Published: 2024-09-09T03:05:00



AI Archives - SD Times

Kong Konnect updates help companies prepare their API infrastructure for AI

Kong is hosting its API Summit 2024 event, and has made announcements about several improvements to its platforms. Key highlights are updates to Kong Konnect, its API management platform, which also includes new versions of Kong Insomnia, Kong Gatewa...

Published: 2024-09-11T16:48:35



AI Archives - SD Times

Three considerations to assess your data’s readiness for AI

Organizations are getting caught up in the hype cycle of AI and generative AI, but in so many cases, they don’t have the data foundation needed to execute AI projects. A third of executives think that less than 50% of their organization’s data is con...

Published: 2024-09-11T15:00:54



AI Archives - SD Times

Anthropic announces Enterprise plan for Claude with expanded context windows, GitHub integration

Anthropic has announced the launch of its Claude Enterprise plan, which offers an expanded context window, more usage capacity, a native GitHub integration, and enterprise security features. Claude Enterprise offers a 500K context window. For compar...

Published: 2024-09-05T14:39:03



AWS Machine Learning Blog

How healthcare payers and plans can empower members with generative AI

In this post, we discuss how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can help health insurance plan members get the information they need. The solution presented in this post not only enhances the member experience by providing a more intuitive and u {text2} </user_question> The {text1} and {text2} data items will be replaced programmatically to populate the ID of the logged-in member and user question. Also, more examples can be added to help the LLM generate appropriate SQLs. The foll...

Published: 2024-09-12T19:13:52



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Enabling production-grade generative AI: New capabilities lower costs, streamline production, and boost security

As generative AI moves from proofs of concept (POCs) to production, we’re seeing a massive shift in how businesses and consumers interact with data, information and each other. In what we consider “Act 1” of the generative AI story, we saw previously As generative AI moves from proofs of concept (POCs) to production, we’re seeing a massive shift in how businesses and consumers interact with data, information and each other. In what we consider “Act 1” of the generative AI story, we saw previously...

Published: 2024-09-12T18:46:13



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Scaling Thomson Reuters’ language model research with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

In this post, we explore the journey that Thomson Reuters took to enable cutting-edge research in training domain-adapted large language models (LLMs) using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) feature focused on providing purpose- Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology-driven company, has been using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in its professional information products for decades. The introduction of generative AI provides another opportunity ...

Published: 2024-09-12T15:32:59



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Introducing Amazon EKS support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

This post is designed for Kubernetes cluster administrators and ML scientists, providing an overview of the key features that SageMaker HyperPod introduces to facilitate large-scale model training on an EKS cluster. We are thrilled to introduce Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, a purpose-built infrastructure engineered with resilience at its core. This capability allows for the seamless addition of SageMaker Hyp...

Published: 2024-09-11T23:58:20



AWS Machine Learning Blog

A review of purpose-built accelerators for financial services

In this post, we aim to provide business leaders with a non-technical overview of purpose-built accelerators (PBAs) and their role within the financial services industry (FSI). Data contains information, and information can be used to predict future behaviors, from the buying habits of customers to securities returns. Businesses are seeking a competitive advantage by being able to use the data they hold, apply it to their u...

Published: 2024-09-11T19:38:12



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Anomaly detection in streaming time series data with online learning using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

In this post, we demonstrate how to build a robust real-time anomaly detection solution for streaming time series data using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink and other AWS managed services. Time series data is a distinct category that incorporates time as a fundamental element in its structure. In a time series, data points are collected sequentially, often at regular intervals, and they typically exhibit certain patterns, such as trend...

Published: 2024-09-11T19:27:30



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Generative AI-powered technology operations

In this post we describe how AWS generative AI solutions (including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q Developer, and Amazon Q Business) can further enhance TechOps productivity, reduce time to resolve issues, enhance customer experience, standardize operating Technology operations (TechOps) refers to the set of processes and activities involved in managing and maintaining an organization’s IT infrastructure and services. There are several terminologies used with reference to managing information technolog...

Published: 2024-09-11T19:22:35



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Optimizing MLOps for Sustainability

In this post, we review the guidance for optimizing MLOps for Sustainability on AWS, providing service-specific practices to understand and reduce the environmental impact of these workloads. Machine learning operations (MLOps) are a set of practices that automate and simplify machine learning (ML) workflows and deployments. What is MLOps provides a detailed description of this concept. As ML workloads become increasingly complex and cons...

Published: 2024-09-11T18:45:35



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Enabling complex generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock Agents

In this post, we take a closer look at Amazon Bedrock Agents. They empower you to build intelligent and context-aware generative AI applications, streamlining complex workflows and delivering natural, conversational user experiences. In June, I started a series of posts that highlight the key factors that are driving customers to choose Amazon Bedrock. The first covered building generative AI apps securely with Amazon Bedrock, while the second explored building custom generative ...

Published: 2024-09-11T14:02:54



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Genomics England uses Amazon SageMaker to predict cancer subtypes and patient survival from multi-modal data

In this post, we detail our collaboration in creating two proof of concept (PoC) exercises around multi-modal machine learning for survival analysis and cancer sub-typing, using genomic (gene expression, mutation and copy number variant data) and ima This post is co-written with Tom Dyer, Samuel Barnett and Francisco Azuaje from Genomics England. Genomics England analyzes sequenced genomes for The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom, and then equips researchers to use data to adv...

Published: 2024-09-11T00:13:33



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Align Meta Llama 3 to human preferences with DPO, Amazon SageMaker Studio, and Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

In this post, we show you how to enhance the performance of Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct by fine-tuning it using direct preference optimization (DPO) on data collected with SageMaker Ground Truth. Clean up After you complete your tasks in the SageMaker Studio notebook, remember to stop your JupyterLab workspace to prevent incurring additional charges. You can do this by choosing Stop next to your JupyterLab space. Additionally, you have t...

Published: 2024-09-09T22:40:48



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon EC2 P5e instances are generally available

In this post, we discuss the core capabilities of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5e instances and the use cases they’re well-suited for. We walk you through an example of how to get started with these instances and carry out inference dep State-of-the-art generative AI models and high performance computing (HPC) applications are driving the need for unprecedented levels of compute. Customers are pushing the boundaries of these technologies to bring higher fidelity products and experie...

Published: 2024-09-09T22:20:16



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Exploring data using AI chat at Domo with Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we share how Domo, a cloud-centered data experiences innovator is using Amazon Bedrock to provide a flexible and powerful AI solution. Getting started with Amazon Bedrock With Amazon Bedrock, teams and individuals can immediately start using FMs without having to worry about provisioning infrastructure or setting up and configuring ML frameworks. Before you get started, ve...

Published: 2024-09-09T21:51:23



AWS Machine Learning Blog

How Vidmob is using generative AI to transform its creative data landscape

In this post, we illustrate how Vidmob, a creative data company, worked with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) team to uncover meaningful insights at scale within creative data using Amazon Bedrock. This post was co-written with Mickey Alon from Vidmob. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be vital for marketing because it enables the creation of personalized content and optimizes ad targeting with predictive analytics. Specifically, suc...

Published: 2024-09-06T21:12:30



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Fine-tune Llama 3 for text generation on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

In this post, we demonstrate how to fine-tune the recently released Llama 3 models from Meta, specifically the llama-3-8b and llama-3-70b variants, using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. SageMaker Studio kernel timeout issue Due to the size of the Meta Llama 3 70B model, the training job may take several hours to complete. The SageMaker Studio kernel is only used to initiate the training job, and its status doesn’t affect the on...

Published: 2024-09-06T20:22:10



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Ground truth curation and metric interpretation best practices for evaluating generative AI question answering using FMEval

In this post, we discuss best practices for working with Foundation Model Evaluations Library (FMEval) in ground truth curation and metric interpretation for evaluating question answering applications for factual knowledge and quality. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications powered by large language models (LLMs) are rapidly gaining traction for question answering use cases. From internal knowledge bases for customer support to external conversational AI assistants, t...

Published: 2024-09-06T20:11:49



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Build powerful RAG pipelines with LlamaIndex and Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we show you how to use LlamaIndex with Amazon Bedrock to build robust and sophisticated RAG pipelines that unlock the full potential of LLMs for knowledge-intensive tasks. We tested Llamaparse on a real-world, challenging example of asking questions about a document containing Bank of America Q3 2023 financial results. An example slide from the full slide deck (48 complex slides!) is shown below. Using the ...

Published: 2024-09-05T21:53:23



AWS Machine Learning Blog

Evaluating prompts at scale with Prompt Management and Prompt Flows for Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we demonstrate how to implement an automated prompt evaluation system using Amazon Bedrock so you can streamline your prompt development process and improve the overall quality of your AI-generated content. As generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize every industry, the importance of effective prompt optimization through prompt engineering techniques has become key to efficiently balancing the quality of outputs, response time,...

Published: 2024-09-05T20:11:05



MIT News - Artificial intelligence

A fast and flexible approach to help doctors annotate medical scans

“ScribblePrompt” is an interactive AI framework that can efficiently highlight anatomical structures across different medical scans, assisting medical workers to delineate regions of interest and abnormalities. To the untrained eye, a medical image like an MRI or X-ray appears to be a murky collection of black-and-white blobs. It can be a struggle to decipher where one structure (like a tumor) ends and another begins. When trained to understand the bou...

Published: 2024-09-09T16:25:00



Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily

Researchers discover building blocks that could 'revolutionize computing'

A research team has made a major discovery by designing molecules that could revolutionize computing....

Published: 2024-09-12T13:56:44



Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily

Microscale robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls

Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl....

Published: 2024-09-11T14:20:47



Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily

New AI can ID brain patterns related to specific behavior

Scientists have developed a new AI algorithm that can separate brain patterns related to a particular behavior. This work promises to improve brain-computer interfaces and aid with the discovery of new brain patterns....

Published: 2024-09-09T17:52:39



Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily

Artificial muscles propel a robotic leg to walk and jump

Researchers have developed a robotic leg with artificial muscles. Inspired by living creatures, it jumps across different terrains in an agile and energy-efficient manner....

Published: 2024-09-09T11:31:11



Microsoft Research

Research Focus: Week of September 9, 2024

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Large language models (LLMs) are the de facto standard for Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. NEW RESEARCH Can LLMs be Fooled? Investigating Vulnerabi...

Published: 2024-09-12T16:00:00



Microsoft Research

MedFuzz: Exploring the robustness of LLMs on medical challenge problems

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved unprecedented accuracy on medical question-answering benchmarks, showcasing their potential to revolutionize healthcare by supporting clinicians and patients. However, these benchmarks often fail to capture A chart showing the accuracy of various models in the MedQA benchmark with different numbers of MedFuzz attack attempts. The horizontal line is average human performance on USMLE exams (76.6%). GPT-4 and Claude-Sonnet still have human comparable per...

Published: 2024-09-10T16:00:00



Microsoft Research

GraphRAG auto-tuning provides rapid adaptation to new domains

GraphRAG uses large language models (LLMs) to create a comprehensive knowledge graph that details entities and their relationships from any collection of text documents. This graph enables GraphRAG to leverage the semantic structure of the data and g Code Sample 3: Auto-tuned prompt Goal Given a text document that is potentially relevant to this activity, first identify all entities needed from the text in order to capture the information and ideas in the text. Next, report all relationsh...

Published: 2024-09-09T16:15:55



Microsoft Research

Collaborators: Silica in space with Richard Black and Dexter Greene

College freshman Dexter Greene and Microsoft research manager Richard Black discuss how technology that stores data in glass is supporting students as they expand earlier efforts to communicate what it means to be human to extraterrestrials. The post Show more [1] (opens in new tab) It was later noted that the original Golden Record team was also led by astrophysicist Frank Drake (opens in new tab), whose efforts to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) inspired continued work in...

Published: 2024-09-05T16:00:00



The Register - Software: AI + ML

Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Japan's bullet trains to ditch drivers

The Shinkansen have operated without fatalities for sixty years how hard can it be? One of Japan's major passenger railway operators announced plans on Tuesday to bring fully automated bullet trains into service by the mid-2030s. ...

Published: 2024-09-12T05:15:06



The Register - Software: AI + ML

Nvidia CEO to nervous buyers and investors: Chill out, Blackwell production is heating up

AI ROI? Jensen Huang claims infra providers make $5 for every dollar spent on GPUs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has attempted to quell concerns over the reported late arrival of the Blackwell GPU architecture, and the lack of ROI from AI investments. ...

Published: 2024-09-12T00:16:50



The Register - Software: AI + ML

AI has colonized our world so it's time to learn the language of our new overlords

Brush up on your Delvish the lingo that flatters LLMs into a sort of submission Column Despite growing evidence that generative AI creates more work for humans than it saves, organizations are deploying it in frontline roles like customer servic ...

Published: 2024-09-11T07:27:09



The Register - Software: AI + ML

As major web browser makers snuggle up to AI, these skeptical holdouts remain

Chatbots, generative models 'in many ways the next step in the surveillance economy' Web browsers now commonly sport AI services provided by on-device or cloud-based models. However, a few holdouts remain convinced it's a bad idea. ...

Published: 2024-09-10T21:25:10



The Register - Software: AI + ML

SambaNova makes Llama gallop in inference cloud debut

AI infra startup serves up Llama 3.1 405B at 100+ tokens per second Not to be outdone by rival AI systems upstarts, SambaNova has launched inference cloud of its own that it says is ready to serve up Meta s largest models faster than the rest. ...

Published: 2024-09-10T19:31:24



The Register - Software: AI + ML

UK Lords push bill to tame rogue algorithms in public sector

Peer says government needs to learn lessons from Post Office scandal The UK Parliament's second chamber is set to launch a bill designed to regulate the use of algorithms and automated decision-making by public bodies. ...

Published: 2024-09-10T08:30:57



The Register - Software: AI + ML

We're in the brute force phase of AI once it ends, demand for GPUs will too

Gartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of workloads AI techniques that require specialist hardware are "doomed," according to analyst firm Gartner's chief of research for AI Erick Brethenoux who included GPUs in his definition ...

Published: 2024-09-10T07:29:14



The Register - Software: AI + ML

US sets reporting requirements for AI models, infrastructure operators

Washington wants to know what the biggest model-makers are up to The US Commerce Department has proposed a fresh set of reporting requirements for developers of cutting-edge AI models and those renting the infrastructure required to train them. ...

Published: 2024-09-10T01:29:08



The Register - Software: AI + ML

GenAI hype meets harsh reality as enterprises wrestle with business case

Nvidia, Equinix clearly making a killing over costs, confusion, and cold feet Enterprises are still struggling with the business case for generative AI projects more than a year after the craze started, and we may have to wait until the end of 2025 t ...

Published: 2024-09-09T17:30:15



The Register - Software: AI + ML

Microsoft exec warns of business functions being sacrificed on the altar of AI

Too many IT modernization projects? Not enough budget? Something will have to give Arun Ulag, Microsoft corporate vice president for Azure Data, reckons that, in a world of constrained or finite IT budgets, something will have to give if new projects ...

Published: 2024-09-09T13:00:12



The Register - Software: AI + ML

MI6 and CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven threat actors

Spook bosses use first-ever joint article to bemoan how Russia and China use tech to mess with the world CIA director Bill Burns and UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Richard Moore have for the first time penned a joint opinion piece in whic ...

Published: 2024-09-09T06:34:08



The Register - Software: AI + ML

AI bills can blow out by 1000 percent: Gartner

Preventing that is doable, but managing what happens when AI upsets people is hard Organizations adopting AI need to learn how to manage the emotional and monetary costs the tech creates, while also worrying about capturing productivity benefits, acc ...

Published: 2024-09-09T03:40:16



The Register - Software: AI + ML

Xockets rockets Nvidia: Blackwell debut threatened by DPU patent claims

GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup Nvidia is embroiled in an antitrust'n'patent lawsuit, which alleges the GPU giant colluded with Microsoft and the intellectual property risk management firm RPX to rip off the dat ...

Published: 2024-09-08T11:53:09



The Register - Software: AI + ML

What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked'

Robotaxis, low pay may be end of the road for app cabbies in San Francisco Feature The Uber driver who picked me up the other day doesn't think the ride-sharing app has much of a future in San Francisco. ...

Published: 2024-09-07T17:14:12



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Defense AI models 'a risk to life' alleges spurned tech firm

Chatterbox Labs CEO claims Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office unfairly cancelled a contract then accused him of blackmail In-depth Chatterbox Lab CEO Danny Coleman alleges that after three and a half years of uncompensated work to prov ...

Published: 2024-09-06T12:28:10



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VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked

CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out Broadcom's turnaround plan for VMware appears to be working, as the silicon-and-software-slinger reported 47 percent year on year revenue growth but also posted a loss. ...

Published: 2024-09-06T02:59:14



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Nvidia and chums inject $160M into Applied Digital to keep GPU sales rolling

Datacenters are the lifeline for its $30B ML-fueled boom AI has made GPUs one of the hottest commodities on the planet, driving more than $30 billion in revenues for Nvidia in Q2 alone. But, without datacenters, the chip powerhouse and its customers ...

Published: 2024-09-06T00:56:11



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AI-pushing Adobe says AI-shy office workers will love AI if it saves them time

knowledge workers, overwhelmed by knowledge tasks? We know what you need Adobe recently surveyed more than 1,000 employed Americans about their view of AI, and found that they could overcome their concerns about losing their jobs to AI if it saved th ...

Published: 2024-09-05T20:30:07



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Global powers sign AI pact promising to preserve human rights, democracy

No, Russia and China are not on the list The US, EU, UK, and other nations have signed up to a legal framework setting out a treaty for the implementation of AI that is underpinned by human rights and democratic values. ...

Published: 2024-09-05T16:00:08



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OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step

The ChatGPT maker reveals details of what’s officially known as OpenAI-o1, which shows that AI needs more than scale to advance....

Published: 2024-09-12T17:05:00



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How Useful Will Apple Intelligence Be? The Next iPhone Will Tell Us

This week, we talk about the new iPhone 16 and its many AI tricks. Some of them are impressive, some of them are meh, all of them are very Apple....

Published: 2024-09-12T12:00:00



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Apple Shared Its First Public AI-Generated Image. It’s Craig Federighi’s Dog

Shared exclusively with WIRED, this Image Playground creation is the first that Apple has released outside of marketing materials....

Published: 2024-09-11T23:24:14



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Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works

Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple’s Craig Federighi tells WIRED, allows your personal data to be “hermetically sealed inside of a privacy bubble.”...

Published: 2024-09-11T20:38:43



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An AI Bot Named James Has Taken My Old Job

A local newspaper in Hawaii has turned to AI-generated presenters to draw in new audiences....

Published: 2024-09-11T19:35:34



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This New Tech Puts AI In Touch With Its Emotions and Yours

Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice....

Published: 2024-09-11T16:27:10



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Why AI Is So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris

Race and gender are part of it, but there’s more to those unconvincing pictures of the presidential candidate....

Published: 2024-09-10T10:30:00



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Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body

As the head of Alphabet’s AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can’t come soon enough. For another, they shouldn’t look like us....

Published: 2024-09-10T10:00:00



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James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader Has Already Been Immortalized With AI

James Earl Jones died Monday at the age of 93. But long before he did, he gave Lucasfilm permission to recreate his iconic Darth Vader voice for shows like Obi-Wan Kenobi....

Published: 2024-09-10T00:47:32



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This iPhone ‘Supercycle’ May Not Be So Super

Some Apple analysts believe AI will spur a boom in iPhone sales. But not everyone’s buying the hype....

Published: 2024-09-09T23:22:58








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