Elon Musk's venture, xAI, has released the Grok-1 AI model's code and weights, surpassing OpenAI's GPT-3 by some 150 billion parameters. The release on GitHub and BitTorrent allows worldwide access to the Grok-1's 314 billion parameters, promoting democratic access to sophisticated large language model (LLM) technology. The unrefined version of Grok-1 is available for any…
Apple has discreetly acquired another artificial intelligence (AI) company, DarwinAI, a Canadian startup focused on computer vision and increasing the speed and efficiency of AI systems. Apple has been notably idle and secretive compared to other leading tech AI firms, shedding little light on potential AI initiatives in its product range.
During Apple's Q1 earnings call,…
This week in AI news, public trust in the technology continues to wane even as adoption rates rise. This distrust is partly due to alarmist views expressed by some industry sectors, with a report commissioned by the US government even going as far as to label AI an "extinction-level threat" to humanity.
In an exemplification of…
DeepMind's Scalable, Instructable, Multiworld Agent (SIMA) is pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence (AI) as it learns to achieve the human-like understanding of instructions and adaptability in a variety of simulated 3D environments and video games. Unlike traditional AI that excels only in specific tasks, SIMA's agents have been trained to interpret human language commands…
The U.S. Government has received a commissioned report that warns new Artificial Intelligence (AI) safety provisions must be implemented in order to prevent a possible "extinction-level threat" towards humanity. The report, accomplished by Gladstone AI, focuses on the potential catastrophic risks of advanced AI and presents measures to limit these dangers. It stresses that the…
Cognition AI, founded by coding experts Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan, recently introduced Devin, the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer. The development of Devin was backed by $21 million Series A funding led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. Devin's abilities exceed those of OpenAI and Microsoft’s CoPilot, as it can construct…
Researchers, including experts from Scale AI, the Center for AI Safety, and leading academic institutions, have launched a benchmark to determine the potential threat large language models (LLMs) may hold in terms of the dangerous knowledge they contain. Using a new technique, these models can now "unlearn" hazardous data, preventing bad actors from using AI…
Scientists utilize Artificial Intelligence to investigate the impact of genetics on heart structure.
A global team of researchers led by the University of Manchester used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to investigate the role genetics play in forming the structure of the heart's left ventricle. They utilized unsupervised deep learning to examine over 50,000 three-dimensional MRI images from the UK Biobank. The goal was to establish a better understanding of…
In a bid to advance the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical and healthcare research, researchers from Mayo Clinic have developed an innovative AI technology, "hypothesis-driven AI". This diverges from conventional data-driven AI models that primarily excel at identifying patterns within large volumes of data but often struggle to incorporate existing scientific knowledge or…
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), a museum of screen culture located in Fed Square, Melbourne is preparing to host its first-ever live 'AI Prompt Battle' this Friday. This innovative event challenges contestants to generate the most creative and striking AI artwork via text prompts.
The brainchild for the technologically creative event came from…
The US Air Force (USAF) is on the verge of gaining 1,000 small, autonomously-piloted "ghost” fighter jets under a new project launched by the Pentagon. Last year, the USAF successfully tested an AI-piloted stealth jet called XQ-58A Valkyrie, and plans to roll out fleets of these unmanned aircraft are progressing. Defence giants Boeing, Lockheed Martin,…
This week in AI news, researchers have shown how AI can be used to recreate scents and generate precise 3D models of dogs. The AI model used for the latter was trained with a dataset built from the video game Grand Theft Auto V. In addition to these novel applications, there has been notable use…