Pace of innovation in AI is fierce – but is ethics able to keep up?
If a week is traditionally a long time in politics, it is a yawning chasm when it comes to AI. The pace of innovation from the leading providers is one thing; the ferocity of innovation as competition hots up is quite another. But are the ethical implications of AI technology being left behind by this…
Musk wanted us to merge with Tesla or take ‘full control’
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, allegedly wanted the AI research company OpenAI to either merge with Tesla or give him full control of the organisation. A blog post from OpenAI, in response to a lawsuit filed by Musk against the company, revealed email communications from 2015 to 2018 when Musk was…
Anthropic’s latest AI model beats rivals and achieves industry first
Anthropic’s latest cutting-edge language model, Claude 3, has surged ahead of competitors like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini to set new industry standards in performance and capability. According to Anthropic, Claude 3 has not only surpassed its predecessors but has also achieved “near-human” proficiency in various tasks. The company attributes this success to rigorous testing and…
Using generative AI to improve software testing | MIT News
Generative AI is getting plenty of attention for its ability to create text and images. But those media represent only a fraction of the data that proliferate in our society today. Data are generated every time a patient goes through a medical system, a storm impacts a flight, or a person interacts with a software…
AIs in India will need government permission before launching
In an advisory issued by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) last Friday, it was declared that any AI technology still in development must acquire explicit government permission before being released to the public. Developers will also only be able to deploy these technologies after labelling the potential fallibility or unreliability of the…
Proximity boosts collaboration on MIT campus | MIT News
Want to boost collaboration among researchers? Even in an age of easy virtual communication, physical proximity increases collaborative activity among academic scholars, according to a new study examining a decade’s worth of MIT-based papers and patents. In particular, the study finds that cross-disciplinary and interdepartmental collaboration is fueled by basic face-to-face interaction within shared spaces….
OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Is Getting a Huge Memory Upgrade
While AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini may impress with their ability to read and write, they’re not perfect. Along with their habit to hallucinate and their pernicious issues with bias, the technology also has a pretty basic problem holding it back: memory. Anyone who has played around with ChatGPT for more than a few…
AI Is Rapidly Transforming Drug Discovery
CEO & Founder, Healr Solutions | MIT Lecturer | Corporate, Non-Profit, & Governmental Board Member. getty The biopharmaceutical industry stands on the cusp of a revolution, with artificial intelligence (AI) emerging as a transformative force in drug development. AI’s ability to reduce the time and cost of bringing new drugs to market is not just…
Elon Musk sues OpenAI over alleged breach of nonprofit agreement
Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, citing a violation of their nonprofit agreement. The legal battle, unfolding in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, revolves around OpenAI’s departure from its foundational mission of advancing open-source artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the betterment of…
Startup accelerates progress toward light-speed computing | MIT News
Our ability to cram ever-smaller transistors onto a chip has enabled today’s age of ubiquitous computing. But that approach is finally running into limits, with some experts declaring an end to Moore’s Law and a related principle, known as Dennard’s Scaling. Those developments couldn’t be coming at a worse time. Demand for computing power has…