Meta’s massive, 70-billion parameter LLaMA 2 has been outflanked by the newly released 180-billion parameter Falcon Large Language Model. The artificial intelligence community has a new feather in its cap with the release of Falcon […]
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AI Language Models Are Rife With Different Political Biases
New research explains you’ll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask. Should companies have social responsibilities? Or do they exist only to deliver profit to their shareholders? If you […]
The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI
A new analysis shows that “open source” AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways. ChatGPT made it possible for anyone to play with powerful artificial […]
Making Foundation Models Accessible
As generative AI models become increasingly capable, “foundation model” is a relatively new term being tossed around. So what is a foundation model? The term remains somewhat vague. Some define it by the number of […]
‘Overwhelming consensus’ on AI Regulation
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says there was “overwhelming consensus” for regulation on artificial intelligence after tech heavyweights gathered in Washington to discuss AI. Tech bosses attending the meeting included Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google boss […]
Retro: A Longevity Biotech Triple-Threat?
A serial entrepreneur and investor, Betts-LaCroix founded Retro in 2021 to develop cellular reprogramming, autophagy and plasma-inspired therapeutics, with the goal of increasing healthy human lifespan by 10 years. A former Harvard, MIT and Caltech […]
Sam Altman Invested $180 Million into a Company Trying to Delay Death
Can anti-aging breakthroughs add 10 healthy years to the human life span? The CEO of OpenAI is paying to find out. When a startup called Retro Biosciences eased out of stealth mode in mid-2022, it […]
This Startup Says its First Fusion Plant is Five Years Away. Experts Doubt It.
Helion, backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has already lined up Microsoft as its first customer. A startup backed by Sam Altman says it’s on track to flip on the world’s first fusion power plant in […]
LK-99 — How Science Sleuths Solved the Mystery
Efforts to replicate the material have pieced together the puzzle of why it displayed superconducting-like behaviours. Researchers seem to have solved the puzzle of LK-99. Scientific detective work has unearthed evidence that the material is […]
Neuralink Raises $280 Million
Elon Musk’s biotechnology startup Neuralink raised $280 million in a fundraising round, the company announced. The Series D round was led by Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based VC firm established by Peter Thiel, the controversial […]
Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
The savvy observer has been burned many times before. He knows what it’s like to believe the AI magic show, only to have the curtain pulled back and the flimsy strings yanking the puppet revealed. […]
Architectural AI
The promises – and perils – of AI have been gripping the world of architecture and design in recent months, but few have grasped that the revolution is already under way. Image-making tools such as […]
“We Have Built a Giant Treadmill That We Can’t Get Off”
Amid an explosion of panic about artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and runaway algos, the celebrated Sci-Fi writer Ted Chiang considers how to best think about AI. “The Evolution of Human Science” was written in response to […]
Audiences Don’t Crave IP. They Want Originality
The massive preview grosses for “Barbie”, “Oppenheimer” and even “Sound of Freedom” are gamechangers. “Barbie” (Warner Bros. Discovery), with a 3 p.m. start and shorter running time, took in $22.3 million. “Oppenheimer” (Universal), which began […]
Crows and Magpies Are Building Nests with Anti-Bird Spikes
“Even for me as a nest researcher, these are the craziest bird nests I’ve ever seen.” Hostile architecture is a design strategy that restricts access to public space. Spikes protruding from doorways, fences under stairs, […]
Food Delivery by Drone Is Just Part of Daily Life in Shenzhen
The Chinese delivery giant Meituan flies drones between skyscrapers to kiosks around the city. Many big corporations have had their eyes on drone delivery: Amazon first proposed doing it in 2013, but its progress has […]
The Secret Failure in The Banking System of Migrating From COBOL
“I just got through a conversion (for a system) to go from COBOL to Java, It’s taken them four years, and they’re still not done.” In recent years, there have been efforts to modernize the […]
‘It Almost Doubled Our Workload’: AI is Supposed to Make Jobs Easier. These Workers Disagree
“Workers do report, though, that the intensity of their work has increased after the adoption of AI in their workplaces.” A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency […]
Famed US Hacker Kevin Mitnick Dies Aged 59
America’s “most wanted” hacker reinvented himself as a cybersecurity consultant after time in prison. In the 1990s, Mitnick gained notoriety breaking into government websites and corporate networks, including Pacific Bell, and stole corporate data and […]
Why So Many Brands Use Sound To Make You Buy Stuff
Netflix made sonic logos — the new version of jingles — trendy. But its success is hard to replicate. Netflix has “ta-dum.” Liberty Mutual has “Liberty, Liberty, Liiiberty.” Other insurance companies have a bevy of […]
Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama
Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers. We’re now ready to open source the next version of Llama 2 and are making it available free […]
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
Ethan Mollick provides an opinionated guide, focused on how to pick the right AI tool to do things. Not a single AI lab seems to provide any user documentation. Instead, the only user guides out […]
Thousands of Authors Sign Letter Urging AI Makers to Stop Stealing Books
Most people are not aware or concerned that LLMs are created through what amount to illicit means, and that they may in fact contain and regurgitate copyrighted works. If you ask GPT-4 to do a […]
JetZero’s Next-Gen Aircraft Could Change How We Fly for the First Time in Decades
A California-based startup called JetZero is changing the shape of commercial planes and the material they’re made of. The company unveiled its designs for the midsize commercial and military tanker-transport markets this spring, and has […]
The Teetering Tech Office
Meta and Twitter are shedding square footage, while Amazon and Google aren’t giving up the dream. Tech was going to save commercial real estate. At least it seemed that way, briefly, in 2020: Apple took […]
ChatGPT Can Turn Bad Writers Into Better Ones
People who use ChatGPT to help with writing tasks are more productive and produce higher-quality work than those who don’t, a study found. People have been using ChatGPT to help them to do their jobs […]
The Crypto Ecosystem: Key Elements and Risks
A report submitted by the Bank of International Settlements to the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. This report reviews the key elements of the crypto ecosystem and assesses its structural flaws. It then […]
Influencers Are Realizing That A.I. Might Not Be a Magic Money-Making Machine For Artists After All
The curious odyssey of drop-shipping entrepreneur Patryk Marketer. For the last few months, I have been following the adventures of a drop-shipping entrepreneur who goes by the name of “Patryk Marketer.” A video by Marketer […]
Elon Musk Announces New Company xAI as He Seeks to Build ChatGPT Alternative
Elon Musk, who has hinted for months that he wants to build an alternative to the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, announced the formation of what he’s calling xAI, whose goal is to “understand the […]
Actors Say Hollywood Studios Want Their AI Replicas — For Free, Forever
During yesterday’s press conference in which Hollywood actors confirmed that they were going on strike, SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator, revealed a proposal from Hollywood studios that sounds ripped right out of a Black Mirror episode. In […]