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09 Oct

How the AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research

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Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science, when trying to reverse engineer why the trio won the prize this year. “What I hope this doesn’t do is make researchers inappropriately use chatbots, by wrongly thinking that all AI tools are equivalent,” he says.The fear that this could happen is founded in the explosion of interest around other supposedly transformative technologies. “There’s always hype cycles, recent ones being blockchain and graphene,” says Hodgkinson. Following graphene’s discovery in 2004, 45,000 academic papers mentioning the material were published between 2005 and 2009,…

01 Oct

Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

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We don't save any of the material with Copilot Vision, so once you close the browser after your session, it all just disappears. It fully deletes. But I'm thinking about if and how to introduce it in the future, because a lot of people do want that experience. If you could just say, ‘What was that picture that I saw online the other day? What was that meme?’ I think we'll have to look into it one day.At the moment, though, the Copilot Vision tool is ephemeral. We'll sort of have to experiment over time and see what makes sense…

18 Sep

Five features that caught our eye from today’s YouTube livestream

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YouTube’s creator-focused , Made On YouTube, is here again, and there's plenty to talk about. From more AI integration to Communities, YouTube seems to be gearing up to compete against rivals like TikTok and Netflix. Here are five things that genuinely interested us among the deluge of updates and new features.YouTube is introducing the system, which lets viewers “go beyond” liking and sharing a video. The idea is to allow fans to give more visibility to smaller — so hyping is only allowed for videos from creators under 500,000 subscribers, and only on videos under a week old. Content with…

24 Aug

DeepMind workers urge Google to drop military contracts

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Google DeepMind workers have signed a letter calling on the company to drop contracts with military organizations, according to a report by Time. The document was drafted on May 16 of this year. Around 200 people signed the document, which amounts to five percent of the total headcount of DeepMind.For the uninitiated, DeepMind is one of Google’s AI divisions and the letter states that adopting military contracts runs afoul of the company’s own AI rules. The letter was sent out as internal concerns began circulating within the AI lab that the tech was allegedly being sold to military organizations via…

08 Aug

OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode

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In late July, OpenAI began rolling out an eerily humanlike voice interface for ChatGPT. In a safety analysis released today, the company acknowledges that this anthropomorphic voice may lure some users into becoming emotionally attached to their chatbot.The warnings are included in a “system card” for GPT-4o, a technical document that lays out what the company believes are the risks associated with the model, plus details surrounding safety testing and the mitigation efforts the company’s taking to reduce potential risk.OpenAI has faced scrutiny in recent months after a number of employees working on AI’s long-term risks quit the company. Some…

25 Jul

Google DeepMind’s Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blindspot

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Several years before ChatGPT began jibber-jabbering away, Google developed a very different kind of artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo that learned to play the board game Go with superhuman skill through tireless practice.Researchers at the company have now published research that combines the abilities of a large language model (the AI behind today’s chatbots) with those of AlphaZero, a successor to AlphaGo also capable of playing chess, to solve very tricky mathematical proofs.Their new Frankensteinian creation, dubbed AlphaProof, has demonstrated its prowess by tackling several problems from the 2024 International Math Olympiad (IMO), a prestigious competition for high school students.AlphaProof…

11 Jul

Google DeepMind’s Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution

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In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper—thanks to a large language model upgrade, Google DeepMind revealed today. The robot uses the latest version of Google’s Gemini large language model to both parse commands and find its way around.When told by a human “Find me somewhere to write,” for instance, the robot dutifully trundles off, leading the person to a pristine whiteboard located somewhere in the building.Gemini’s ability to handle video and text—in addition to its capacity to ingest large amounts of information…

26 Jun

With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life

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In 2021, AI research lab DeepMind announced the development of its first digital biology neural network, AlphaFold. The model was capable of accurately predicting the 3D structure of proteins, which determines the functions that these molecules play. “We’re just floating bags of water moving around,” says Pushmeet Kohli, VP of research at DeepMind. “What makes us special are proteins, the building blocks of life. How they interact with each other is what makes the magic of life happen.”AlphaFold was considered by the journal Science as the breakthrough of the year in 2021. In 2022, it was the most cited research…

18 Jun

Google DeepMind’s new AI tech will generate soundtracks for videos

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Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence laboratory is working on a new technology that can generate soundtracks, even dialogue, to go along with videos. The lab has shared its progress on the video-to-audio (V2A) technology project, which can be paired with Google Veo and other video creation tools like OpenAI's Sora. In its blog post, the DeepMind team explains that the system can understand raw pixels and combine that information with text prompts to create sound effects for what's happening onscreen. To note, the tool can also be used to make soundtracks for traditional footage, such as silent films and any other…