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20 Best AI Chatbots in 2024
Generative AI chatbots are a major step forward in conversational AI. These chatbots are powered by large language models (LLMs) that can generate human-quality text, translate languages, write creative content, and provide informative answers to your questions.
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In The News
Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Around noon on Nov. 17, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, logged into a video call from a luxury hotel in Las Vegas. He was in the city for its inaugural Formula 1 race, which had drawn 315,000 visitors including Rihanna and Kylie Minogue.
Microsoft unveils 2.7B parameter language model Phi-2
Microsoft’s 2.7 billion-parameter model Phi-2 showcases outstanding reasoning and language understanding capabilities, setting a new standard for performance among base language models with less than 13 billion parameters.
Exploring the Best Free AI Image Generators
In this blog post, we’ll delve into some of the best free AI image generators, empowering you to transform your ideas into stunning visuals effortlessly.
Applied use cases
‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity
Many of these undressing, or “nudify,” services use popular social networks for marketing, according to Graphika. The services use AI to recreate an image so that the person is nude. Many of the services only work on women.
Technologies like artificial intelligence are changing our understanding of war
AI has affected how people understand the world, the jobs available in the workforce and judgments of who merits employment or threatens society.
Scientists Preparing to Turn on Computer Intended to Simulate Entire Human Brain
Researchers at Western Sydney University in Australia have teamed up with tech giants Intel and Dell to build a massive supercomputer intended to simulate neural networks at the scale of the human brain.
Ethics
MIT publishes white papers to guide AI governance
The comprehensive framework outlined in these papers seeks to extend existing regulatory and liability approaches to effectively oversee AI while fostering its benefits and mitigating potential harm.
Why the AI Act was so hard to pass
Over two years since it was first proposed, policymakers in Brussels were still debating core contents of the EU’s landmark AI regulations hours before reaching a deal.
California signals intent to regulate AI broadly
The California Privacy Protection Agency’s proposal of new regulations for automated decisionmaking technology marks a significant step to govern how businesses may leverage those automated tools.
Robotics
I Visited Hyundai's AI-Powered Factory to See the New Ioniq 5 Robotaxi
Hyundai Motor Group's new Innovation Center in Singapore is a test bed for highly automated automotive manufacturing and design.
The limitations of being human got you down? There’s a robot for that
From space robots to self-driving cars, Stanford’s Autonomous Systems Lab looks to push the boundaries of exploration and boost the safety and efficiency of everyday tasks. But Marco Pavone, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and his students in the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL)...
Finally, a robot dog that doesn't look like it's going to murder us all
BabyAlpha, a new robot dog from Chinese robotics company Weilan. VCG Redeem now "BabyAlpha" was revealed at a Chinese electronics show. Although it walks like the terrifying dog-like robots from Boston Dynamics, it's... cute. Who's a good boy? A Chinese robotics company called Weilan showed off its...
Research
10 GitHub Repositories to Master Machine Learning
It covers a wide range of topics such as Quora, blogs, interviews, Kaggle competitions, cheat sheets, deep learning frameworks, natural language processing, computer vision, various machine learning algorithms, and ensembling techniques.
Arxiv Dives - Vision Transformers (ViT)
However, if these models are trained on larger datasets of 14M-300M images, Vision Transformers show similar properties as large language models in a transfer learning setting.
AI Studies in Cartography: A Review and Synthesis of Methods, Applications, and Ethics
In this paper, we conducted a systematic content analysis and narrative synthesis of research studies integrating GeoAI and cartography to summarize current research and development trends regarding the usage of GeoAI for cartographic design.