Large language model AIs such as ChatGPT or Gemini are good at carrying out rote tasks and copying patterns—writing poems, making pictures—but the folks at Lila Sciences want their AI to think outside the test tube, be wildly original, and make jaw-dropping breakthroughs.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: INTERNET AT RISK, SAYS BARRONS, AND MIT PONDERS TRANSHUMANIST TECH BILLIONAIRES
Few higher ed institutions have been as closely connected with the development of Artificial Intelligence as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MONUMENTAL: HEAVYWEIGHTS COME OUT SWINGING AGAINST AI COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
In a legal first, two major Hollywood studios have launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against one of the most popular AI imaging platforms, Midjourney.
THE AI FUTURE: THEY HAVE NO IDEA
Want the clearest evidence that unbound AI development is likely an existential danger to natural humanity?
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
The number of U.S. workers laid off in May was 47 percent higher than May last year, according to a report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The firm reported 93,816 layoffs by U.S. employers in May, up from 63,816 layoffs last May. The total number of job cuts through the end of May was 696,309, an increase of 80 percent from the 385,589 job cuts in the first five months of last year.
CHINA PLANS NETWORK OF AI SUPERCOMPUTERS IN SPACE
Last month, China launched the first 12 satellites into Earth orbit that will become part of a cluster of 2,800, ultimately forming something called the Three-Body Computing Constellation.
AI SAVED TYPICAL U.K. GOVERNMENT WORKER TWO WEEKS A YEAR, STUDY SAYS
Government workers who use AI for routine administrative tasks boosted their productivity enough to gain more than two weeks’ worth of time in the course of a year, according to a government test designed to see if AI could boost productivity.
AI TAKES JOBS FROM THE PEOPLE WHO MADE AI POSSIBLE
Not every business has figured out how to make a profitable return on its AI investment, but some of those making out best are using AI to supplement—or, in some cases replace—high-salaried software engineers. Startups that offer AIs able to look over and improve humans’ coding, or write entire blocks of code on their own,......
XAI SELLS $5 BILLION IN DEBT, VALUES ITSELF AT $113 BILLION
Elon Musk’s xAI has retained Morgan Stanley to shepherd a $5-billion funding package that would value the AI developer at $113 billion.
META WILL AUTOMATE ALL ADS BY 2027
Meta Platforms has announced it will automate all advertising on its various social media venues before the end of next year.