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Meta and Google researchers’ new data curation method could transform self-supervised learning

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Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. As AI researchers and companies race to train bigger and better … http://dlvr.it/T7gx0g

ChatGPT: 'The Achilles heel of artificial intelligence is its energy consumption'

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The goal of phasing out coal as part of the transition to cleaner energy sources is clashing with the soaring electricity demands of the data centers … http://dlvr.it/T7gwsK

Google Admits Its AI Search Feature Is a Dumpster Fire, Says It Will Scale Back the Tool

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"Some odd, inaccurate or unhelpful AI Overviews certainly did show up." Search Engine Hallucination Google is at least partially admitting that its AI … http://dlvr.it/T7gwjD

ElevenLab's AI sound effect generator has finally launched. Listen for yourself

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I tested the new tool and, as someone who often edits and creates videos, I was impressed. ElevenLabs is a leader in AI audio. Its tools, such as AI … http://dlvr.it/T7gwXL

A Devil’s Bargain With OpenAI

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Publishers including The Atlantic are signing deals with the AI giant. Where does this lead? Earlier today, The Atlantic’s CEO, Nicholas Thompson, announced in an internal email that the company has entered into a business partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. (The news was made public via … http://dlvr.it/T7bgCp

Living brain-cell biocomputers are now training on dopamine

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Current AI training methods burn colossal amounts of energy to learn, but the human brain sips just 20 W. Swiss startup FinalSpark is now selling … http://dlvr.it/T7bfss

OpenAI partners with The Atlantic and The Verge publisher Vox Media

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Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. Another week, another round of valuable content partnerships between … http://dlvr.it/T7ZnQL

Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation

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A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates. Google’s search algorithm is perhaps the most consequential system on the internet, dictating what sites live and die and what content on the web … http://dlvr.it/T7Xnlp

Report: Apple signs deal with OpenAI for iOS, still wants Google as an 'option'

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Apple still apparently wants Google and Gemini, but not as its first choice. We previously heard Apple was talking to Google and OpenAI about providing AI functionality on iOS 18. Now, it sounds like Apple has signed a deal with the ChatGPT maker. Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman reported in his … http://dlvr.it/T7RCj6

Musk plans largest-ever supercomputer, report says

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AI COMPETITION: The planned supercomputer would be ‘at least four times the size of the biggest GPU clusters that exist today,’ Elon Musk was quoted … http://dlvr.it/T7RCYr

Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same

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Serenity Strull/BBC/Getty Images (Credit: Serenity Strull/BBC/Getty Images) Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search amount to a dramatic upheaval to the Internet's most powerful tool, complete with an unprecedented AI feature. Will Google save the web, or destroy it? If you've … http://dlvr.it/T7PSZB

Apple needs its big AI moment

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Apple has some ground to make up at its much-awaited annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Big tech names like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google have all hosted events over the last three weeks where artificial intelligence was the main topic of discussion, as well as attention-grabbing new … http://dlvr.it/T7LTjJ

12 Indian GenAI Startups Building Insane Products You Should Know About

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Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy recently said that Indians are good at applying ideas generated elsewhere for the betterment of the nation. He … http://dlvr.it/T7LTLB

Electricity grids creak as AI demands soar

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There’s a big problem with generative AI, says Sasha Luccioni at Hugging Face, a machine-learning company. Generative AI is an energy hog. “Every time you query the model, the whole thing gets activated, so it’s wildly inefficient from a computational perspective,” she says. Take the Large Language … http://dlvr.it/T7C9YK

Tesla's Firing Even More Employees as Crisis Deepens

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The cuts are getting deeper and deeper. Head Count Electric vehicle maker Tesla has been hit by round after round after round of layoffs over the past … http://dlvr.it/T77J4M

The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

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If you search “shrimp Jesus” on Facebook, you might encounter dozens of images of artificial intelligence (AI) generated crustaceans meshed in … http://dlvr.it/T77Hpn

OpenAI created a team to control ‘superintelligent’ AI — then let it wither, source says

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Featured Article Women in tech still face a shocking level of mistreatment at work. Melinda French Gates is one of the few working to change that. 1 hour ago Blue Origin has successfully completed its NS-25 mission, resuming crewed flights for the first time in nearly two years. The mission brought … http://dlvr.it/T76zw4

Google Is About to Change the Whole Internet — Again

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The company’s all-in investment in AI. The biggest mystery surrounding Google over the past year has concerned its core product, its original and … http://dlvr.it/T76zmL

AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed

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Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of AI, said the technology could leave many without jobs. http://dlvr.it/T76zWX

Physicists demonstrate first metro-area quantum computer network in Boston

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It's one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum … http://dlvr.it/T6yvVk

Google devises new watermark for AI-made text

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Google Tuesday unveiled a new technique for marking text so it can later be identified as AI-generated without altering the quality or meaning of the … http://dlvr.it/T6vpD0

Top500: China Opts Out of Global Supercomputer Race

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The U.S. has two of the world’s fastest computers, highlighting significant hardware progress in the country, according to the latest Top500 list of … http://dlvr.it/T6vp1N

AIQ: Has Generative AI Peaked?

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Since the public introduction to ChatGPT in 2022, generative AI has been in the public consciousness nonstop. These AI bots are now all over the … http://dlvr.it/T6s7DX

Gemini could steal this handy feature from ChatGPT

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Google's AI-powered chatbot Gemini can help with research, holiday planning, and more. With Extensions, the chatbot can also pull relevant and … http://dlvr.it/T6rSWC

Waymo says its robotaxis are now making 50,000 paid trips every week

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The company operates Waymo One in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles. If you've been seeing more Waymo robotaxis recently in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles, that's because more and more people are hailing one for a ride. The Alphabet-owned company has announced on Twitter/X that it's now … http://dlvr.it/T6p6By

OpenAI's new product could include sarcasm detection, report says

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Wannabe stand-up comedians and frustrated customers, beware: The robot phone operators may not find your deadpan insults amusing in the future. The Information reported that machine learning company OpenAI could unveil a voice assistant with both audio and visual capabilities that could, in theory, … http://dlvr.it/T6mgvs

Human with Neuralink brain chip sees improvement after initial malfunction, company says

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There have been some issues with Neuralink’s brain-computer interface device, or brain chip since it was implanted in its first human patient, the company said in a blog post. It’s been about eight months since the tech startup owned and co-founded by Elon Musk first announced that the company was … http://dlvr.it/T6m9ZR

Where the human brain (still) has an edge over AI

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In 1928, the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming returned from a two-week vacation and realized he had made a significant oversight. In his haste to leave for his holiday, he had left a messy pile of petri dishes on his workstation. As he began to dispose of the dishes, something unusual caught … http://dlvr.it/T6gRdk

How AI tells Israel who to bomb

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AI is supposed to help militaries make precise strikes. Is that the case in Gaza? Israel’s war with Hamas, in response to the attacks of October 7, 2023, has led to more fatalities than in any previous Israeli war, with at least 34,000 Palestinians killed as of May 7, 2024. In Israel’s 2014 war in … http://dlvr.it/T6ZxW2

How quantum physics could 'revolutionise everything'

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BBC News From unhackable communication networks to powerful computers, quantum technology promises huge advances. How quantum physics could 'revolutionise everything' http://dlvr.it/T6XLFX

Rabbit R1 AI companion: An adorable but half-baked idea that you can ignore

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While I hesitate to call the Rabbit R1 AI companion device useless, I would not describe it as useful. This is a cute, orange gadget that has spent … http://dlvr.it/T6X0NV

Microsoft reportedly developing MAI-1 AI model with 500B parameters - SiliconANGLE

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Microsoft Corp. is developing a large language model with about 500 billion parameters, The Information reported today. The LLM, which is said to be … http://dlvr.it/T6X08p

AI Outperforms Humans in Moral Judgments

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People often view AI-generated answers to ethical questions as superior to those from humans. In the study, participants rated responses from AI and … http://dlvr.it/T6WzqT

Apple’s iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse. Here’s What You Should Know

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The iPhone maker has detected spyware attacks against people in more than 150 countries. Knowing if your device is infected can be tricky—but there … http://dlvr.it/T6WzbV

Meta is quietly winning the AI wearable race

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It’s a low bar so far, but Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are proving to be the best implementation of wearable AI out there. For the last several weeks, I’ve been playing with Meta’s AI assistant in its Ray-Ban smart glasses. It works by responding to the voice command “Hey Meta” and can answer a … http://dlvr.it/T6SYbw