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.
Researchers at AI developer Anthropic programmed AIs to behave badly and then applied industry-standard safety checks to find and remove the poison code.
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.
To hear uber techno-optimists Peter Diamandis and Cathie Wood of Ark Invest preach it, whirlwind ascendant and fast converging AI, robotic and genetic technological advances are creating an “automagical” age for humankind.
SPIN, an AI-enabled music synthesizer fitted with a turntable and drum machine, enables a composer to hear different versions of a work instantly in real time, using an AI called MusicGen.
After criticizing Meta last year when Facebook’s parent company publicly released its chatbot code, Google has now done the same thing, largely in response to developers’ requests, the company said.
Amazon’s billion-dollar fund that backs innovations in industry is looking to put money into ventures that bring together robotics and AI in hopes of making its logistics systems smarter and more efficient.
China’s leading AI developers are relying on technology borrowed from Meta and other U.S. companies and lag American advances by at least a year, The New York Times reported.
Microsoft has pledged about $16 million to Mistral AI, a three-man French AI start-up that wants to become Europe’s first megatech company.
The past two weeks have seen posts and reports from quite a few journalists, pundits and personalities, astounded at the biases displayed by Google’s Gemini AI, and other generative AI platforms.