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AI chip giant Nvidia shares fall despite record sales
Shares in Nvidia have fallen despite the AI chip giant comfortably beating expectations after more than doubling its sales.
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Baidu restricts Google and Bing from scraping content for AI training
According to the Wayback Machine, the change took place on August 8. Previously, Google and Bing search engines were allowed to index Baidu Baike’s central repository, which includes almost 30 million entries, although some target subdomains on the website were restricted.
Workers at Google DeepMind Push Company to Drop Military Contracts
Nearly 200 workers inside Google DeepMind, the company’s AI division, signed a letter calling on the tech giant to drop its contracts with military organizations earlier this year, according to a copy of the document reviewed by TIME and five people with knowledge of the matter.
Perplexity AI plans to start running ads in fourth quarter as AI-assisted search gains popularity
Following months of controversy surrounding plagiarism allegations, Perplexity AI is about to start selling ads alongside AI-assisted search results.
Applied use cases
Persecuted Venezuelan journalists turn to AI
Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro’s media crackdown since disputed election
Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?
A body camera captured every word and bark uttered as police Sgt. Matt Gilmore and his K-9 dog, Gunner, searched for a group of suspects for nearly an hour.
'It looks like cat food': The grey goop dreamed up by AI
Not sure what to eat tonight? Artificial intelligence wants to tell you what to cook, but are the recipes it creates any good? We put it to the test.
Ethics
OpenAI warns California’s AI bill threatens US innovation
OpenAI has added its voice to the growing chorus of tech leaders and politicians opposing a controversial AI safety bill in California. The company argues that the legislation, SB 1047, would stifle innovation and that regulation should be handled at a federal level.
Mapping the regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence in health within the EUA
In this article, we present a synthesis of 141 binding policies applicable to AI in healthcare and population health in the EU and 10 European countries.
Pope discusses ethics of artificial intelligence with Microsoft chief
Microsoft President Brad Smith met Pope Francis on Wednesday to discuss the ethical use of artificial intelligence and ways to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations, the Vatican said.
Robotics
These 74 robotics companies are hiring
It’s been just over two months since we published our last robotics jobs post. The world of automation continues to excite and surprise, as the rise of generative AI opens new avenues for human-robot collaboration.
Boston Dynamics: What We Need In The Emerging Golden Age Of Robotics
While two-legged humanoid robots are super-popular right now from manufacturers like Apptronik, Amazon (in partnership with Agility Robotics), Sanctuary AI, Figure.ai, Tesla, and Fourier Intelligence, it’s likely that robot innovation will diversify rather than consolidate over the next few years as we enter an emerging golden age of robotics.
Revolutionary biohybrid robots are coming. Are we prepared?
As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.
Research
Was Linguistic A.I. Created by Accident?
In the spring of 2017, in a room on the second floor of Google’s Building 1965, a college intern named Aidan Gomez stretched out, exhausted.
Extreme rainfall event study demonstrates improved forecasting via physics-guided machine learning
A research team focused on the extreme rainfall event of "21·7" in Henan in 2021. By analyzing anomalous physical characteristics and understanding multi-model forecast biases, they significantly enhanced the accuracy of precipitation intensity forecasts.
Generative AI performs rudimentary structural biology modeling
Natural language-based generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent in scientific research. Intriguingly, capabilities of generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) language models beyond the scope of natural language tasks have recently been identified.
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