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AI programs spat out known data and hardly learned specific chemical interactions when predicting drug potency
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the rise. Until now, AI applications generally have 'black box' character: How AI arrives at its results remains hidden. A cheminformatics scientist has now developed a method that reveals how certain AI applications work in pharmaceutical research. The results are unexpected: the AI programs largely remembered known data and hardly learned specific chemical interactions when predicting drug potency.
The US Wants China to Start Talking About AI Weapons
As the US and China meet for the APEC summit in San Francisco this week, American officials are pushing for talks on the risks posed by military use of AI.
Netflix Killed 'The OA.' Now Its Creators Are Back With a Show About Tech’s Ubiquity
The OA had the kind of fans who held flash mobs to protest its cancelation. Now its creators are back with A Murder at the End of the World, and a warning about tech’s influence on people’s lives.
GitHub Universe: Open Source Trends Report and New AI Security Products
GitHub Advanced Security gains AI features, and GitHub Copilot now includes a chatbot option. GitHub Copilot Enterprise is expected in February 2024.
AI robotics’ ‘GPT moment’ is near
Building AI-powered robots that can learn how to interact with the physical world will enhance all forms of repetitive work © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Fei-Fei Li Started an AI Revolution By Seeing Like an Algorithm
Researcher Fei-Fei Li’s ImageNet project provided the feedstock for the deep learning boom that brought the world ChatGPT and other world-changing AI systems.
Tech Disrupted Hollywood. AI Almost Destroyed It
Streaming invigorated the film and TV industry and sent established studios scrambling. That was before AI sparked one of the biggest work stoppages in Hollywood history.
How to use AI for discovery -- without leading science astray
In the same way that chatbots sometimes 'hallucinate,' or make things up, machine learning models designed for scientific applications can sometimes present misleading or downright false results. Researchers now present a new statistical technique for safely using AI predictions to test scientific hypotheses.
Obamacare Call Center Staff Strike Over Steep Health Care Costs and Scarce Bathroom Breaks
Staff at US federal contractor Maximus claim they only get six minutes a day to use the bathroom, are monitored by an AI system that reports them for going off-script, and can’t afford health care.
Humane’s Ai Pin is a $700 Smartphone Alternative You Wear All Day
If you’re willing to clip the Ai Pin to your chest, you can talk, gesture, and tap to take photos or summon a powerful virtual assistant.
This New Breed of AI Assistant Wants to Do Your Boring Office Chores
An experimental AI helper attempts to operate a web browser in the same way a human does to take on office admin like processing invoices or screening job applicants.
How Humane’s Ai Pin Works
This week, we talk about the new Humane wearable and the future of phone alternatives.
Meta requires political advertisers to mark when deepfakes used
Advertisers will have to make clear when they use AI in political ads on the social media platforms.
OpenAI Data Partnerships
Working together to create open-source and private datasets for AI training.
Explained: Generative AI
How do powerful generative AI systems like ChatGPT work, and what makes them different from other types of artificial intelligence?
Hollywood Actors Strike Ends With a Deal That Will Impact AI and Streaming for Decades
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists reached a tentative agreement with the studios on Wednesday, ending a 118-day strike.
Samsung Research Reveals Generative AI Samsung Gauss
The Samsung Gauss large language model can assist with code writing and document analysis.
Samsung Gauss: Samsung Research Reveals Generative AI
The Samsung Gauss large language model can assist with code writing and document analysis.
Fakespot Chat, Mozilla’s first LLM, lets online shoppers research products via an AI chatbot
Earlier this year, Mozilla acquired Fakespot, a startup that leverages AI and machine learning to identify fake and deceptive product reviews. Now, Mozilla is launching its first LLM (large language model) with the arrival of Fakespot Chat, an AI agent that will help consumers as they shop online by answering questions about the product or […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The US and 30 Other Nations Agree to Set Guardrails for Military AI
The tech-centric war in Ukraine and the success of ChatGPT have prompted new interest in figuring out how to prevent military AI from going awry.
