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Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices
We’re sharing lessons from a small scale preview of Voice Engine, a model for creating custom voices.
MIT launches Working Group on Generative AI and the Work of the Future
New initiative is convening leading companies and nonprofits with support from Google’s Community Grants Fund.
Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI
The 16 finalists — representing every school at MIT — will explore generative AI’s impact on privacy, art, drug discovery, aging, and more.
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Could AI play a role in locating damage to the brain after stroke?
Artificial intelligence (AI) may serve as a future tool for neurologists to help locate where in the brain a stroke occurred. In a new study, AI processed text from health histories and neurologic examinations to locate lesions in the brain. The study looked specifically at the large language model called generative pre-trained transformer 4 (GPT-4).
Hidden geometry of learning: Neural networks think alike
Engineers have uncovered an unexpected pattern in how neural networks -- the systems leading today's AI revolution -- learn, suggesting an answer to one of the most important unanswered questions in AI: why these methods work so well. The result not only illuminates the inner workings of neural networks, but gestures toward the possibility of developing hyper-efficient algorithms that could classify images in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost.
Century Health, now with $2M, taps AI to give pharma access to good patient data
Century Health is applying AI to clinical data to uncover new applications for drugs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Elon Musk says all Premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week
Following Elon Musk’s xAI’s move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday said that the company formerly known as Twitter will soon offer the Grok chatbot to more paying subscribers. In a post on X, Musk announced Grok will become available to Premium subscribers this week, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Instagram co-founders’ AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after all
Artifact, the well-received AI-powered news app from Instagram’s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, may not be shutting down as planned. The company announced in January the award-winning app would be winding down operations as the market opportunity wasn’t “big enough to warrant continued investment.” However, despite an end-of-life date of February 2024, the app […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
MIT-derived algorithm helps forecast the frequency of extreme weather
The new approach “nudges” existing climate simulations closer to future reality.
Sora: First Impressions
We have gained valuable feedback from the creative community, helping us to improve our model.
Engineering household robots to have a little common sense
With help from a large language model, MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores.
Large language models use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Researchers demonstrate a technique that can be used to probe a model to see what it knows about new subjects.
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How Will Your Company Prepare for Generative AI?
Generative AI will impact workplaces, but how? Weigh in on the TechRepublic forums.
Why is AI so bad at spelling?
AIs are easily acing the SAT, defeating chess grandmasters and debugging code like it’s nothing. But put an AI up against some middle schoolers at the spelling bee, and it’ll get knocked out faster than you can say diffusion. For all the advancements we’ve seen in AI, it still can’t spell. If you ask text-to-image […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Why is AI so bad at spelling? Because image generators aren’t actually reading text
AIs are easily acing the SAT, defeating chess grandmasters and debugging code like it’s nothing. But put an AI up against some middle schoolers at the spelling bee, and it’ll get knocked out faster than you can say diffusion. For all the advancements we’ve seen in AI, it still can’t spell. If you ask text-to-image […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
NVIDIA GTC 2024: Top 5 Trends
NVIDIA GTC 2024 was a snapshot of enterprise trends for generative AI, highlighting private models, RAG and more.
UK, G7 Countries to Use AI to Boost Public Services
The Ministerial Declaration sees G7 nations agree to collectively explore how AI can benefit citizens and boost businesses.
How to Use Gemini (Formerly Duet AI) to Create Images for Slides & Backgrounds
Gemini lets you describe an image in text to create images in Google Slides or generate a background in Google Meet.
