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The 5 Biggest AI Trends For 2024
It’s been a year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, opening the door to seamlessly weave AI into the fabric of our daily lives, propelling industries into the future and even prompting regulatory shifts. In this exploration, we'll begin with the fifth trend and work our way to the pinnacle.
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Olympus : the new AI model built by Amazon
Amazon is working on a new AI model that could challenge the likes of ChatGPT and Bard. The new model, which is codenamed "Olympus," is reportedly twice the size of OpenAI's GPT-4. Amazon is doubling down on AI, investing $4 billion in Anthropic and unveiling an AI-powered Alexa.
How Microsoft is making a mess of the news after replacing staff with AI
False claims that President Joe Biden fell asleep during a moment of silence for victims of the Maui wildfire. A conspiracy theory that the latest surge in Covid-19 cases is being orchestrated by the Democratic Party ahead of the election. An obituary for a late NBA player that described him as “useless.”
Elon Musk Announces Grok, a ‘Rebellious’ AI With Few Guardrails
The new AI model - called Grok (a name that means “to understand” in tech circles), “is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!” reads an announcement on the company’s website. “It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.”
Applied use cases
Accurately detecting AI text when ChatGPT is told to write like a chemist
Text analysis is conducted on articles from 13 chemistry journals vs. ChatGPT. The classification method uses 20 text features and XGBoost. The model effectively discriminates human scientific writing from GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. AI text from prompts designed to obfuscate AI use is classified with 99% accuracy
The UN Hired an AI Company to Untangle the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis
CulturePulse’s AI model promises to create a realistic virtual simulation of Israel and the Palestinian territories. But don’t roll your eyes: It's already been put to the test in other conflict zones.
The impact of AI on the coffee industry
AI may be a technical buzzword but it’s already making its mark on the international coffee industry. GCR explores how it’s helping businesses save time and money, and why it’s not necessarily something to fear.
Ethics
Five takeaways from UK’s AI safety summit at Bletchley Park
Rishi Sunak hails conference as diplomatic coup after it produces international declaration to address AI risks
Biden Signs Order Requiring AI Safeguards
U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an executive order related to artificial intelligence. He said the government needs to move quickly to work with companies developing artificial intelligence – or AI – technology.
AI Regulation, War and the Future of the American Tech Stack
This week, the United States and the European Union tipped their hands on how they plan to regulate AI. The rules amounted to a sea change in the relationship bewteen tech businesses and the government and spurred a whole lot of thinking on our part about what comes next.
Robotics
Generative AI is Coming to Robots, Courtesy of NVIDIA
In response to a surge in generative artificial intelligence (AI), NVIDIA made significant updates to its Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics.
Amazon prepares army of 750,000 ROBOTS to eliminate HUMAN workers
Amazon recently announced that it has "750,000 robots working collaboratively" with human employees.
This is what happened when Boston Dynamics' robots started to speak, powered by ChatGPT
What you need to know A group of engineers recently developed a robot by leveraging generative AI capabilities to serve as a tour guide across Boston Dynamics' premises.
Research
Op-ed: Exploring the boundaries of simulated consciousness with LMMs
Can AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT4, Anthropic’s Claude 2, or Meta’s Llama 2 help identify the origins and nuances of the concept of ‘consciousness?’
New simulation method using AI accurately predicts powder mixing
Numerical simulations using the discrete element method (DEM) have been used widely as an approach that can accurately predict powder mixing.
Invertible neural network tool helps optimize airfoil design
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are building computational tools using artificial intelligence (AI) that can help optimize airfoil design for wind turbine blades, aircraft wings, and fan blades in natural gas turbines.
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