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Some Generative AI Company Employees Pen Letter Wanting ‘Right to Warn’ About Risks
Both the promise and the risk of "human-level" AI has always been part of OpenAI’s makeup. What should business leaders take away from this letter?
AIs are irrational, but not in the same way that humans are
Large Language Models behind popular generative AI platforms like ChatGPT gave different answers when asked to respond to the same reasoning test and didn't improve when given additional context, finds a new study.
Fighting fires from space in record time: How AI could prevent devastating wildfires
Scientists are getting closer to detecting bushfires in record time, thanks to cube satellites with onboard AI now able to detect fires from space 500 times faster than traditional on-ground processing of imagery.
Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to interact with computers
The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
IBM’s Think 2024 News That Should Help Skills & Productivity Issues in Australia
TechRepublic interviewed IBM’s managing director for Australia about how announcements from the recent Think event could impact the tech industry in particular.
Cisco Live 2024: New Unified Observability Experience Packages Cisco & Splunk Insight Tools
The observability suite is the first major overhaul for Splunk products since the Cisco acquisition. Plus, Mistral AI makes a deal with Cisco’s incubator.
Google’s new startup program focuses on bringing AI to public infrastructure
Google’s newest startup program, announced on Wednesday, aims to bring AI technology to the public sector. The newly launched “Google for Startups AI Academy: American Infrastructure” will offer participants hands-on training from AI experts and other support for companies solving problems in areas like agriculture, energy, education, public safety, healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, urban development, and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images
eBay’s newest AI feature allows sellers to replace image backgrounds with AI-generated backdrops. The tool is now available for iOS users in the U.S., U.K., and Germany. It’ll gradually roll out to Android users over the coming months. Following in Amazon’s and Google’s footsteps, the e-commerce company announced on Tuesday the launch of its new […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Intel Lunar Lake NPU Brings 48 TOPS of AI Acceleration
Competition for AI speed heats up. Plus, the first of the two new Xeon 6 processors is now available, and Gaudi 3 deals have been cinched with manufacturers.
Cisco Live 2024: Cisco Unveils AI Deployment Solution With NVIDIA
A $1 billion commitment will send Cisco money to Cohere, Mistral AI and Scale AI.
True Fit leverages generative AI to help online shoppers find clothes that fit
True Fit, the AI-powered size-and-fit personalization tool, has offered its size recommendation solution to thousands of retailers for nearly 20 years. Now, the company is venturing into the generative AI space with “Fit Hub,” a new tool that aims to improve the way online shoppers find clothing that fits their body type. Sizing issues continue […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
New machine learning method can better predict spine surgery outcomes
Researchers combine AI and mobile health to predict recovery from lumbar spine surgery.
AMD Reveals Ryzen 9000 CPUs and AI PC Architecture at Computex 2024
The next generation of Ryzen processors for desktops is built on AMD’s Zen 5 microarchitecture.
The 5 Best Udemy Courses That Are Worth Taking in 2024
Udemy is an online platform for learning at your own pace. Boost your career with our picks for the best Udemy courses for learning tech skills online in 2024.
Binit is bringing AI to trash
Early attempts at making dedicated hardware to house artificial intelligence smarts have been criticized as, well, a bit rubbish. But here’s an AI gadget-in-the-making that’s all about rubbish, literally: Finnish startup Binit is applying large language models’ (LLMs) image processing capabilities to tracking household trash. AI for sorting the stuff we throw away to boost […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
A technique for more effective multipurpose robots
With generative AI models, researchers combined robotics data from different sources to help robots learn better.
WTF is AI?
What is AI? We've put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today's AI works. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Children's visual experience may hold key to better computer vision training
A novel, human-inspired approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify objects and navigate their surroundings could set the stage for the development of more advanced AI systems to explore extreme environments or distant worlds, according to new research.
What is the EU’s AI Office? New Body Formed to Oversee the Rollout of General Purpose Models and AI Act
The AI Office will be responsible for enforcing the rules of the AI Act, ensuring its implementation across Member States, funding AI and robotics innovation and more.
Google, Microsoft, Meta and More to Develop Open Standard for AI Chip Components in UALink Promoter Group
Notably absent from the group is NVIDIA, which has its own equivalent technology that it may not wish to share with its closest rivals.
