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06 Nov

Trump’s victory will benefit Elon Musk and xAI

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Disclaimer: I voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election and stand by my choice. Republican politician and businessman Donald J. Trump has won the 2024 U.S. presidential election in a strong political comeback, despite various pre-election polls showing him neck-and-neck with his opponent Kamala Harris (the current and now outgoing Vice President, a Democrat). As many who follow the news know all too well, one of his most outspoken allies in this election was none other six-company owner/operator and…

06 Nov

‘I’m going to sue the living pants off them’: AI’s big legal showdown – and what it means for Dr Strange’s hair

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The first piece of AI-generated video I ever made moved me to tears – tears of laughter. Given the chance to fool around with Runway AI’s Gen-3 Alpha, I dropped in an image of an eagle carrying off a wolf. Moments later, the picture sprang into life. The eagle slowly flapped its wings as it glided down a mountainside, dropping the wolf from its talons. Except the bird only had one leg – and its plummeting prey sprouted wings from its tail and morphed into a wolf-headed goose. It was weird and hilarious.Make no mistake, though – this is the…

06 Nov

How close are we to an accurate AI fake news detector?

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In the ambitious pursuit to tackle the harms from false content on social media and news websites, data scientists are getting creative. While still in their training wheels, the large language models (LLMs) used to create chatbots like ChatGPT are being recruited to spot fake news. With better detection, AI fake news checking systems may be able to warn of, and ultimately counteract, serious harms from deepfakes, propaganda, conspiracy theories and misinformation. The next level AI tools will personalise detection of false content as well as protecting us against it. For this ultimate leap into user-centered AI, data science needs…

06 Nov

AIRIS is a learning AI teaching itself how to play Minecraft

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A new learning AI has been left to its own devices within an instance of Minecraft as the artificial intelligence learns how to play the game through doing, says AI development company SingularityNET and the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI Alliance). The AI, named AIRIS (Autonomous Intelligent Reinforcement Inferred Symbolism), is essentially starting from nothing inside Minecraft to learn how to play the game using nothing but the game’s feedback loop to teach it. AI has been set loose to learn a…

06 Nov

Knowledge workers are leaning on generative AI as their workloads mount

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Americans are struggling at work, according to a new report from Wrike. It found that workers are saying their workloads have grown by 31% in the last year. Leaders put the figure even higher, saying workloads have increased by 46% for their department or team. Employees across the tech and financial services sectors in particular, who have witnessed wave after wave of layoffs, are now struggling under the weight of their own roles, as well as added responsibilities handed to them by departing colleagues. 5 jobs to discover this week Head of AI, Remitly, Seattle ($232,000 – $290,000) Manager Software…

06 Nov

Meet the startup that just won the Pentagon’s first AI defense contract

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Department of Defense has awarded its first generative AI defense contract to Jericho Security, marking a strategic shift in military cybersecurity. The $1.8 million Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract, announced through AFWERX, tasks the New York-based startup with developing advanced cybersecurity solutions for the Department of the Air Force. “This is one of the first generative AI contracts awarded in defense, marking a major milestone in how seriously our military is addressing AI-based threats,” Sage Wohns, CEO…

06 Nov

Microsoft’s new Magnetic-One system directs multiple AI agents to complete user tasks

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Enterprises looking to deploy multiple AI agents often need to implement a framework to manage them. To this end, Microsoft researchers recently unveiled a new multi-agent infrastructure called Magnetic-One that allows a single AI model to power various helper agents that work together to complete complex, multi-step tasks in different scenarios. Microsoft calls Magnetic-One a generalist agentic system that can “fully realize the long-held vision of agentic systems that can enhance our productivity and transform our lives.” The framework is open-source…

06 Nov

AI chatbot launches on Gov.UK to help business users – with mixed results

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It speaks a bit of Welsh, can recite the building regulations, refuses to say whether Rishi Sunak is better than Keir Starmer and won’t explain the UK corporation tax regime. The government is launching an artificial intelligence chatbot to help businesses chart the 700,000 page labyrinth that is the Gov.UK website and it looks like users can expect varied results.The experimental system will be tested by up to 15,000 business users before wider availability, possibly next year. Before you get started it warns: “The biggest limitation of AI tools like me is a problem known as ‘hallucination’. This means we…

05 Nov

Meta to let US national security agencies and defense contractors use Llama AI

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Meta announced Monday that it would allow US national security agencies and defense contractors to use its open-source artificial intelligence model, Llama. The announcement came days after Reuters reported an older version of Llama had been used by researchers to develop defense applications for the military wing of the Chinese government.Meta’s policies typically prohibit the use of its open-source large language model for “military, warfare, nuclear industries or applications, [and] espionage”. The company is making an exception for US agencies and contractors as well as similar national security agencies in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, according to Bloomberg.“These…

05 Nov

AI hallucinations gone wrong as Alaska uses fake stats in policy

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The combination of artificial intelligence and policymaking can occasionally have unforeseen repercussions, as seen recently in Alaska. In an unusual turn of events, Alaska legislators reportedly used AI-generated citations that were inaccurate to justify a proposed policy banning cellphones in schools. As reported by /The Alaska Beacon/, Alaska’s Department of Education and Early Development (DEED) presented a policy draft containing references to academic studies that simply did not exist. The situation arose when Alaska’s Education Commissioner, Deena Bishop, used generative AI to draft the cellphone policy. The document produced by the AI included supposed scholarly references that were neither verified…