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: TRENDS IN AI – Mar 12 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.