Category: TRENDS IN AI – Sep 10 2024

This week, Britain, the European Union, and the U.S. are scheduled to sign the Council of Europe’s legally binding convention on AI standards.

While many in AI have advocated open source models, the community has yet to define exactly what “open source” means in the context of this particular technology.

As we reported in “Data Centers’ Power Demand Spikes Utilities’ Stock Prices, Grid Concerns” (28 May 2024), the rush to build AI data centers is claiming more and more of the U.S. electricity supply.

A bill casting strict regulations over AI developers has passed California’s legislature and is waiting for governor Gavin Newsom’s signature.

Police officers can spend an hour or more writing a detailed report summarizing their actions and results after a call. 

Ali Baba, Tencent, and other major Chinese tech firms are spending billions to buy, or buy into, promising AI startups, hoping to gain advantage by buying early access to innovations in large language AI models.

Chinese researchers have unveiled the Taichi-II optically based computer chip, which is designed to provide the massive “brain power” needed for artificial general intelligence, the future version of AI that can outthink and outperform humans.