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Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI
When OpenAI’s board asked Sam Altman to return a day after they fired him, he initially felt defiant, hurt and angry.
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The Path to General AI and Responsible AI, the most recent research of Vaishnavi Visweswariah
These courses provided extensive expertise in Python, cloud technologies, Data Science, application development, healthcare management, and machine learning engineering.
Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their ‘app of the year,’ picking AllTrails and Imprint instead
Both Apple and Google today announced their best apps and games of the year, with the hiking and biking companion AllTrails winning as Apple’s iPhone App of the Year in 2023, while the educational app Imprint: Learn Visually won as Google Play’s best app.
AWS and NVIDIA expand partnership to advance generative AI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA have announced a significant expansion of their strategic collaboration at AWS re:Invent. The collaboration aims to provide customers with state-of-the-art infrastructure, software, and services to fuel generative AI innovations.
Applied use cases
AI is already in our hospitals. 5 questions people want answered
These are examples of AI making or shaping decisions health professionals previously made. More applications are being developed.
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
There was nothing in Drew Ortiz's author biography at Sports Illustrated to suggest that he was anything other than human.
How AI could power the climate breakthrough the world needs
Tomato growers in central India have been increasingly worried about the volatility that extreme weather events have brought to the region.
Ethics
The End of Privacy Is Near. “AI Scours Social Media… You’re Being Spied Upon Everywhere”
It came out in 2014, but it’s even more pertinent today than it was then In January 2013, when documentary film director/producer Laura Poitras received an encrypted email from a stranger who called himself “Citizen Four”
AI: opening doors to a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive labour market
As several jurisdictions around the world start to regulate the use of AI – with the European Union taking the lead with the most comprehensive set of rules to be adopted.
Harvard Law School Professor Finds ChatGPT Invents Fake Law Less Than The Supreme Court
ChatGPT has notoriously invented law in its desperate effort to satisfy the request of its masters. In this sense, the consumer-facing generative artificial intelligence tool isn’t dissimilar from Clarence Thomas or Sam Alito.
Robotics
AI is already being melded with robotics—one outcome could be powerful new weapons
In 2022, a dozen leading robotics companies signed an open letter hosted on the website of Boston Dynamics, which created a dog-like utility robot called Spot.
Small-batch EVs and plenty of robots—Hyundai’s new innovation center
As HMG gears up for additional models in its lineup and falls for the allure of increased EV sales, it's building additional facilities, including the Georgia Metaplant that Hyundai is rushing to start production in 2024.
ChatGPT for chemistry: AI and robots join forces to build new materials
Google DeepMind tool predicts nearly 400,000 stable substances, and an autonomous system learns to make them in the lab.
Research
Examining the mind's eye of a neural network system
A new tool developed at Purdue University makes finding those errors as simple as spotting mountaintops from an airplane.
Human-like systematic generalization through a meta-learning neural network
The classic argument made over 30 years ago by Fodor and Pylyshyn - that neural networks fundamentally lack the systematic compositional skills of humans due to their statistical nature - has cast a long shadow over neural network research.
AimSeg: A machine-learning-aided tool for axon, inner tongue and myelin segmentation
As a result, our training and validation data takes into account a variety of features, including myelinated and unmyelinated axons, and a wide range of fibres with different myelin and inner tongue thickness, thereby extending the utility of AimSeg for the segmentation of myelinated fibres.