Artificial intelligence benchmarking group MLCommons on Wednesday released a fresh set of tests and results that rate the speed at which top-of-the-line hardware can run AI applications and respond to users. The two new benchmarks added by MLCommons measure the speed at which the AI chips and systems can generate responses from the powerful AI … Read more
Screenshot: TikTok / Gizmodo Congressman Jeff Jackson’s latest TikTok video starts simply: “I apologize.” Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could ultimately ban TikTok from the US. For many, it turned Jackson into enemy number one. The North Carolina Democrat spent the last year amassing 2.3 million followers on TikTok, leveraging … Read more
It’s the first day of the last month of 2023, and we might be in for an exciting period in artificial intelligence space as companies continue developing this technology while protest groups keep highlighting its dangers. In the first news, Meta executives said that they found no downside to openly sharing its AI technology. This … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a plan to endorse a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence, emphasizing that it’s essential to prevent a Western monopoly. Speaking at an AI conference in Moscow, Putin noted that “it’s imperative to use Russian solutions in the field of creating reliable and transparent artificial intelligence systems that … Read more
This semester, students and postdocs across MIT were invited to submit ideas for the first-ever MIT Ignite: Generative AI Entrepreneurship Competition. Over 100 teams submitted proposals for startups that utilize generative artificial intelligence technologies to develop solutions across a diverse range of disciplines including human health, climate change, education, and workforce dynamics. On Oct. 30, … Read more
Vultr, the world’s largest privately-held cloud computing platform, has announced a major new partnership with DDN, known for its global leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions. The partnership will advance innovation in AI and high-performance computing by integrating DDN’s data management solutions with Vultr’s high-performance cloud infrastructure. This will optimise data … Read more
We are a long way from building conscious machines, neuroscientists write in an opinion published in the journal Trends in Neurosciences. When we, humans, are interacting with AI systems such as ChatGPT, we consciously perceive the text the language model generates. The question is whether the language model also perceives our text when we prompt … Read more
The artificial intelligence revolution is fully underway, but soaring demand for its most crucial component has startups scratching their heads on how they can deliver on AI’s promise. Generative AI’s lifeblood is a book-sized semiconductor known as the graphics processing unit (GPU) — built by one company, Nvidia. Nvidia’s CEO and founder Jensen Huang made … Read more
Workday, a leader in enterprise cloud applications, has announced a novel platform, the Workday AI Marketplace, to help streamline access to and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions. The news was unveiled at Workday Rising, the company’s annual customer conference. The marketplace is designed to streamline access to AI and ML … Read more
Online content farms are using AI chatbots to “scramble and rewrite” thousands of news stories from major publications like The New York Times and republish them to earn advertising revenue, according to a new report from misinformation monitor NewsGuard. The stories, which often repurposed entire lines directly from other articles without credit, were found on … Read more