A new AI is ready to help consumer product companies improve diversity in their advertising just as those companies are caving to pressures to forsake their inclusion initiatives.
Category: 22 October 2024
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TOP TREND 2023, SELF-SUFFICIENT ECONOMY: CHINA USES DOMESTIC CHIPS TO TRAIN AI WITH A TRILLION PARAMETERS
China Telecom, a state-owned business, says it has used chips designed in-house to create two large language model AIs trained to consider a trillion variables at a time.
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ENDOR LABS OFFERS TEST FOR OPEN-SOURCE AI MODELS
Endor Labs, a Silicon Valley company specializing in secure software development, has created a screen to test the quality of open-source software models available on Hugging Face and other sites where the models can be downloaded.
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MAJOR AI SYSTEMS FAIL EUROPE’S AI ACT COMPLIANCE TEST
A number of AI models have work to do if they’re to comply with key provisions of the European Union’s AI Act, passed by the union’s parliament last May.
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GOOGLE COMMISSIONS MINI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS TO RUN DATA CENTERS
Google has signed what it says is "the world's first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors.”
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OPENAI CREATES SAFETY CHECKLIST FOR AI
Engineers at OpenAI have designed a suite of tests to determine whether a future AI should be considered “artificial general intelligence” (AGI)—an AI that not only can outperform humans in most mental abilities but also can evolve new versions of itself without human intervention.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
A new Department of Defense (DoD) directive issued in late September very arguably runs afoul of longstanding prohibitions on the U.S. military being used in domestic operations and surveillance against American citizens.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: FRIENDLY ROBOTS TAKING YOUR JOB, AND GENTECH SELECTING HIGH IQ BABIES
Will it make workers feel better, having their job eliminated by an unfailingly courteous robot co-worker?
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Why Bitcoin? The debt crisis around the world is becoming so dire, even the institutions that seduced the world into it are getting very edgy.
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ECB GUNNING FOR BITCOIN (AND FED RESERVE IS, TOO)
Crypto research papers are an average memecoin a dozen. A new one by several members of the European Central Bank (ECB) is different.