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How to use AI to plan your next vacation
Planning a vacation should, in theory, be fun. But drawing up a list of activities for a trip can also be time consuming and stressful, particularly if you don’t know where to begin.
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Microsoft and Apple back away from OpenAI board
Microsoft and Apple have decided against taking up board seats at OpenAI. The decision comes as regulatory bodies intensify their scrutiny of big tech’s involvement in AI development and deployment.
Leaders at 'Summer Davos' discuss ways to harness AI
Maximizing AI's potential and avoiding its pitfalls was high on the agenda at the World Economic Forum's recently concluded Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC24) in China.
AMD to buy Finnish start-up Silo AI for $665mn in drive to compete with Nvidia
AMD is to buy Finnish artificial intelligence start-up Silo AI for $665mn in one of the largest such takeovers in Europe as the US chipmaker seeks to expand its AI services to compete with market leader Nvidia.
Applied use cases
Spain sentences 15 schoolchildren over AI-generated naked images
Teenagers each given a year’s probation after creating and spreading faked images of female classmates in south-west Spain
AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' — but it's too dangerous to release, scientists say
Microsoft's VALL-E 2 can convincingly recreate human voices using just a few seconds of audio, its creators claim.
AI revolution in US education: How Chinese apps are leading the way
The success of Chinese AI education applications like Question.AI and Gauth in the US market comes at a time of fierce competition within China, where over 200 large language models—critical for generative AI services like ChatGPT—have been developed.
Ethics
Bias in AI for Medical Imaging
Although AI methods hold promise for medical imaging-based prediction tasks, their integration into medical practice may present a double-edged sword due to bias (i.e., systematic errors).
Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.
Advances in AI are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between uniquely human behaviors and those that can be replicated by machines.
Red Teaming Isn’t Enough
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be good at a lot of things, but providing accurate election information isn’t one of them. According to research from the AI Democracy Projects, if you ask Google’s Gemini for the nearest polling place in North Philadelphia, it will tell you (incorrectly) that there are none.
Robotics
Skild AI grabs $300M to build foundation model for robotics
A new wave of startups is emerging to apply recent artificial intelligence advances into more sophisticated robot behavior. Yesterday, Skild AI emerged from stealth mode and announced that it has closed a $300 million Series A round. The Pittsburgh-based company said the funding brings its valuation of $1.5 billion.
ROBO SPACE Musk's Neuralink eyes more test subjects for its brain tech
Musk and members of the Neuralink team fielded questions during an update streamed on X, formerly Twitter, discussing where it is on the path to making its brain implants commonplace.
Qinglong, China’s first full-sized general-purpose humanoid robot, unveiled at World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2024
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2024 in Shanghai, one of the most influential AI events within the global tech ecosystem, the National Local Joint Humanoid Robot Innovation Center on Thursday unveiled the open-source general-purpose humanoid robot Qinglong for the first time.
Research
Rethinking Research and Generative AI
Science and research integrity has been facing a growing crisis. Mass retractions, manipulated peer review, authorship for sale, and complicit guest editors have shaken the publishing system and risk undermining public trust in the scientific record.
How causal AI is revolutionizing the pharmaceutical industry
Success rates, particularly in phase 2 when efficacy is first tested, are below 30%. Causal AI for predicting clinical efficacy is currently transforming the pharma business model.
Building Jahez’s Cuisines Classification with LLMs
How can a food delivery app ensure that you find exactly what you want? In a market as diverse and dynamic as Jahez’s, effective cuisine classification is more than just a convenience — it’s a necessity.
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