AI expert Neil Lawrence's new book, The Atomic Human, delves into AI myths, including Terminator references. The study challenges techbro arrogance, contrasting biblical creation with AI consciousness.
Anthropic unveils Claude 3.5 Sonnet, an advanced AI language model for text, data analysis, and coding. Impressive performance surpasses GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro on key benchmarks, earning praise from independent researchers.
Eric Evans receives DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service for his leadership at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Defense Science Board. Evans' impact on national security and defense innovation recognized by U.S. Department of Defense.
NVIDIA AI Workbench simplifies generative AI development with RAG applications, enabling customized models and seamless collaboration. The free tool streamlines setup and offers ease of collaboration across platforms for data scientists and developers.
Entity resolution and knowledge graphs combine to create powerful data fusion tools for analytic organizations. ERKGs connect and deduplicate entities across multiple datasets, revealing latent connections and enhancing investigative capabilities.
AI is transforming drug discovery by helping scientists find cost-efficient molecules with desired properties. MIT's SPARROW algorithm streamlines synthesis planning, optimizing costs and experimental steps for new medicines, agrichemicals, and specialized materials.
AI Agent Capabilities Engineering Framework introduces a mental model for designing AI agents based on cognitive and behavioral sciences. The framework categorizes capabilities into Perceiving, Thinking, Doing, and Adapting, aiming to equip AI agents for complex tasks with human-like proficiency.
SoftBank is developing AI-powered "emotion-canceling" tech to alter angry customer voices for calmer calls with customer service. The project aims to reduce operator stress, with plans for launch by March 2026, sparking mixed reactions online.
MIT and Meta researchers develop PlatoNeRF, a computer vision technique using shadows and machine learning to create accurate 3D models of scenes, improving autonomous vehicles and AR/VR efficiency. Combining lidar and AI, PlatoNeRF offers new opportunities for reconstructions and will be presented at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, leads the fight against surveillance and data sharing. Organized Google walkouts in 2018 to protest state surveillance and sexual misconduct.
Africa's potential in AI and green jobs shines, but global support is crucial, says Prof Patrick Verkooijen, new Chancellor of University of Nairobi. With vast natural resources and a young population, Africa's promise is undeniable as it heads towards being home to one in four people globally by 2050.
Name entity recognition (NER) extracts entities from text, traditionally requiring fine-tuning. New large language models enable zero-shot NER, like Amazon Bedrock's LLMs, revolutionizing entity extraction.
AI-powered blood test predicts Parkinson's 7 years early, improving treatment research. Test could be available in NHS labs in 2 years.
IMF report recommends fiscal policies to address AI carbon emissions. Generative AI advances at breakneck speed.
Implementing k-means data clustering from scratch using JavaScript led to a simpler, more understandable version. The demo showcases encoding and normalizing data for the k-means algorithm in an engaging way.