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16 Aug

Controversial California AI Law Moves Forward

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The California Appropriations Committee passed the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act (also known as SB-1047) on Thursday, the latest move in the saga of regulating Silicon Valley. The state Assembly and Senate must still approve the bill before it becomes law. What is SB-1047? Known colloquially as California’s AI Act, and monitored closely across the country for possibly setting a precedent for state rules around generative AI, SB-1047 sets out several rules for AI developers: Create safety and security protocols for covered AI models. Ensure such models could be shut down completely. Prevent the distribution…

16 Aug

Engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots

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A tiny battery designed by MIT engineers could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other applications such as locating leaks in gas pipelines. The new battery, which is 0.1 millimeters long and 0.002 millimeters thick -- roughly the thickness of a human hair -- can capture oxygen from air and use it to oxidize zinc, creating a current of up to 1 volt. That is enough to power a small circuit, sensor, or actuator, the researchers showed. "We think this is going to be very enabling for robotics,"…

16 Aug

What Is Gemini Live and How Do You Use It?

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Google launched a barrage of new hardware this week, from the Pixel 9 smartphones to new wireless earbuds. Underpinning all the shiny gadgetry is Google's Gemini artificially intelligent assistant. The chatbot launched earlier this year and is now the default assistant on the Pixel 9 series and is already available on millions of Android phones worldwide. But there's a new way to talk to this chatbot that's now rolling out: Gemini Live.This is Google's response to OpenAI's GPT-4o, a way to talk to the assistant naturally, much like a normal voice conversation between two humans (or at least, that's the…

16 Aug

Best of CTCCC 2024: Deepfake Video and Image Detection, AI at the Edge, and Taking AI to the Next Level | TechRepublic

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The 7th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems and the 5th Communication Technologies and Cloud Computing Conference took place in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 14–16, 2024. Our contributing writer, Drew Robb, attended in person. In this TechRepublic Premium feature, read some of the highlights of an event that included the manipulation of images and deepfake videos and their detection, how artificial intelligence can transition to the edge of the network, and how compound AI can take AI to the next level. Featured text from the download: AI at the Edge Generative AI typically involves vast amounts of investment in…

16 Aug

NIST’s New Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards Announced

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The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology this week unveiled three encryption algorithms designed to resist cyberattacks, which industry observers said are a positive step toward preventing cyberattacks that break current encryption methods. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 203, 204, and 205 provide standards for general encryption and protecting digital signatures. They were derived from multiple submissions in NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standardization project. Quantum computers are rapidly increasing the ability for high-performance computing, and the new standards are ready for immediate use, NIST said. “Quantum computing technology could become a force for solving many of society’s most intractable…

15 Aug

Robot planning tool accounts for human carelessness

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A new algorithm may make robots safer by making them more aware of human inattentiveness. In computerized simulations of packaging and assembly lines where humans and robots work together, the algorithm developed to account for human carelessness improved safety by about a maximum of 80% and efficiency by about a maximum of 38% compared to existing methods. The work is reported in IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. "There are a large number of accidents that are happening every day due to carelessness -- most of them, unfortunately, from human errors," said lead author Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, assistant professor…

15 Aug

Teradata: Generative AI Projects Risking Failure Without Business Executive Understanding

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Chris Hillman, international data science director at data management firm Teradata, has recently seen more attention directed towards the cost of data science and AI teams, as businesses seek to demonstrate value from their investments in emerging technology. However, he believes that data scientists are capable of building AI models on a technical level, and it is often business stakeholders who are thwarting successful AI projects when they do not understand how AI models work or fail to turn model recommendations into action. “In the data science world, everything’s a technical problem and we solve it with tech,” Hillman explained.…

15 Aug

Observability in LLMOps: Different Levels of Scale

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Observability is key to successful and cost-efficient LLMOps. The demand for observability and the scale of the required infrastructure vary significantly along the LLMOps value chain. Training foundation models is expensive, time-consuming, and happens at a scale where infrastructure failures are inevitable, making fine-grained observability a core requirement. Developers of RAG systems and agents benefit from tracing capabilities, allowing them to understand the interplay between components and assess the responses to user requests. The distributed structure of agentic networks adds another level of complexity, which is not yet addressed fully by LLM observability tools and practices. Observability is invaluable in…

14 Aug

CBA’s x15ventures Set to Lead in Fintech AI Innovation

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On Aug. 20, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s venture-scaling arm, x15ventures, will close applications for its annual Xccelerate program — an opportunity for tech startups to win a $250,000 investment into their company. The competition reflects the CBA’s broader efforts to establish itself as a dominant force in fintech AI. The bank’s initiatives, including its partnership with Microsoft and the work of x15ventures, highlight its intent to replicate the success of its ambitious digital transformation program that disrupted the banking sector a decade ago. x15ventures: A Hub for Innovation In July, CBA’s x15ventures opened applications for Xccelerate. x15ventures is dedicated…

14 Aug

AI Statistics 2024: $25m+ Investment Surge in U.S. and UK Businesses

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A new report has found that 8% of U.K. and and 7% of U.S. decision-makers plan to spend over $25 million (£19.5 million) on AI initiatives this year. This comes after many investors voiced their concerns about the technology’s capabilities and their potential return on investment. According to the 2024 State of AI report from technology consultancy Searce, a quarter of decision-makers said their organisations were set to spend between $11 million (£8.5 million) and $25 million (£19.5 million) on AI in 2024. The top reason for making these investments was to drive new business growth, as cited by 31%…