Spark v3.5, an AI unveiled by the Chinese company iFlytek, is better than OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo in processing language, doing math, coding, and can mimic human speech in ways that reveal emotions, the company announced.
Category: 12 March 2024
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AI HEAVYWEIGHTS INVEST IN ROBOT START-UP
Figure AI, a Silicon Valley start-up building AI-driven robots, announced it has raised $675 million from investors including Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and the family fund of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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AI WILL BE AS CAPABLE AS HUMANS IN NEAR FUTURE, ZUCKERBERG SAYS
AI developer Meta is pouring another $10 billion into creating "an absolutely massive amount of infrastructure" to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the kind that bests humans in a variety of mentally demanding challenges, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said last week.
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POISONED AI WAS ABLE TO HIDE ITS MALICIOUS CODE FROM RESEARCHERS
Researchers at AI developer Anthropic programmed AIs to behave badly and then applied industry-standard safety checks to find and remove the poison code.
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ENGINEERS BUILD KILLER DRONE IN A FEW HOURS
Two engineers spent a few hours installing AI and facial recognition in a small, off-the-shelf drone that then was able to identify and chase people at full speed. If the drone had had a weapon aboard, it could have killed its prey.
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NEW MATERIAL DOUBLES HYDROGEN STORAGE CAPACITY
Hydrogen is making headlines as a potentially limitless clean fuel that holds more energy in a given space than lithium-ion batteries. (See “A Gold Rush for Gold Hydrogen” 5 Mar 2024.) However, as hydrogen’s benefits draw more interest, so does a key problem: the gas is hard to store.
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VICTORIA NULAND TO RETIRE FROM STATE DEPARTMENT, WILL TEACH AT COLUMBIA
Victoria Nuland, the under-secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department, will retire from her post by the end of the month and teach diplomacy at Columbia University to brainwash the next generation of establishment neocons.
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BIG PHARMA AND ITS SHILLS ARE HAVING TO ADJUST THEIR COVID FICTION TO THE FACTS
From all appearances Big Pharma put together an international study by 21 medical “scientists” that concluded from 99 million vaccinated individuals that the mRNA vaccines have “rare” harmful effects.
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BIOENGINEERS 3D-PRINT LIVING SKIN DIRECTLY ONTO WOUNDS
For the first time, researchers have 3D-printed layered, living skin onto wounded areas of a living creature, preventing scarring, possible infection, and other dangers that can accompany skin grafts.
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PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT, SINGING MAY HELP PRESERVE BRAIN HEALTH
Engaging in activities that stimulate your brain is one of the simplest ways to keep your mind sharp as you age.