In the News
5 ways GPT-4 outsmarts ChatGPT
OpenAI’s new GPT-4 AI model has made its big debut and is already powering everything from a virtual volunteer for the visually impaired to an improved language learning bot in Duolingo. But what sets GPT-4 apart from previous versions like ChatGPT and GPT-3.5? Here are the five biggest differences between these popular systems.
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In The News
Microsoft lays off one of its responsible AI teams
The move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team to ensure its AI principles are closely tied to product design at a time when the company is leading the charge to make AI tools available to the mainstream, current and former employees said.
Adept Raises $350 Million To Build AI That Learns How To Use Software For You
Chatbots rule the day in AI for now, but soon, Adept cofounder David Luan predicts, AI won’t just display unsettlingly human responses to typed queries, it will execute them. It will do what you would do with your computer for you.
UK to invest £900m in supercomputer in bid to build own ‘BritGPT’
The UK government is to invest £900m in a cutting-edge supercomputer as part of an artificial intelligence strategy that includes ensuring the country can build its own “BritGPT”.
Applied use cases
How AI could write our laws
While the idea of monied interests incorporating AI assistive technologies into their lobbying remains hypothetical, specific machine-learning technologies exist today that would enable them to do so.
Generative AI: Unlocking the future of fashion
While still nascent, generative AI has the potential to help fashion businesses become more productive, get to market faster, and serve customers better. The time to explore the technology is now.
The power of MLOps to scale AI across the enterprise
An estimated 54% to 90% of machine learning (ML) models don’t make it into production from initial pilots for reasons ranging from data and algorithm issues, to defining the business case, to getting executive buy-in, to change-management challenges.
Ethics
Stanford Names 12 Tech Ethics & Policy Fellows
The fellows will work across various government agencies, think tanks, and legislative offices in Washington, D.C., to better understand how the U.S. government enacts tech policy.
An AI Told Me I Had Cancer
Few people read the medical consent agreements that we are required to sign before treatment, much like few people read the terms and services agreements required to set up an account on a website.
Meet the AI expert who says we should stop using AI so much
I recently heard an argument that the movement to ban facial recognition (especially in policing) discourages efforts to make the technology more fair or more accurate.
Robotics
MIT’s new modular lunar robot has ‘worms’ for arms
MIT engineers have designed a walking lunar robot cleverly inspired by the animal kingdom. However, to avoid “a zoo of machines” with various robots for every task imaginable, the modular WORMS would allow astronauts to swap out limbs, bases and appendages for the task at hand.
Design Principles for Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts
We contribute (a) insights into how a robot can help overcome challenges in social dining, (b) design principles for creating robot-assisted feeding systems, (c) and an implementation guide for future research in this area.
Mix-and-match kit could enable astronauts to build a menagerie of lunar exploration bots
When astronauts begin to build a permanent base on the moon, as NASA plans to do in the coming years, they’ll need help. Robots could potentially do the heavy lifting by laying cables, deploying solar panels, erecting communications towers, and building habitats.
Research
GigaGAN: Large-scale GAN for Text-to-Image Synthesis
It generates 512px outputs at 0.13s, orders of magnitude faster than diffusion and autoregressive models, and inherits the disentangled, continuous, and controllable latent space of GANs.
The next generation of AI for developers and Google Workspace
Developers and businesses can now try new APIs and products that make it easy, safe and scalable to start building with Google’s best AI models through Google Cloud and a new prototyping environment called MakerSuite.
Revisiting the classics: Jensen’s inequality
In this blog post, I will present a collection of fun facts about the inequality, from very classical to more obscure. If you know other cool ones, please add them as comments.
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