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.
Runway introduces Gen-3 Alpha AI video synthesis model, rivaling OpenAI's Sora in quality and generating 10-second clips with improved consistency. Despite budget constraints, Runway impresses with visually stunning video creations from text prompts, showcasing significant advancements in visual fidelity.
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.
Tech evangelists advocate for AI education amid global school closures, but author Alex Beard warns of growing risks. 850 million children affected.
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.
IMF report recommends fiscal policies to address AI carbon emissions. Generative AI advances at breakneck speed.
AI-powered blood test predicts Parkinson's 7 years early, improving treatment research. Test could be available in NHS labs in 2 years.
Proton, the secure email suite, transitions to a nonprofit foundation led by CEO Andy Yen. Foundation includes Sir Tim Berners-Lee, aims to prioritize people over profits.
MIT researchers found that large language models can understand the visual world and generate complex scenes. By querying LLMs to self-correct code for images, they improved simple drawings and trained a vision system without using visual data.
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.
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.
Automating resource management in large language model training optimizes efficiency, enabling focus on experimentation and innovation. AWS Trainium and AWS Batch integration offers scalable, cost-effective deep learning training with streamlined orchestration.
AI is becoming companions for humans, offering therapy and even love. But is it a solution to loneliness or just a profit-making tool for big tech? Spike Jonze's 'Her' foreshadowed this trend, now seen in AI assistants like Amazon's Alexa and ChatGPT with Scarlett Johansson's voice.
Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence book sparked debates on the potential dangers of superintelligent machines, prompting calls for enhanced military defense. Despite criticism, the book successfully brought the concept of AI takeover from academia to mainstream consciousness.
Summary: The "Communicative Agents for Software Development" paper introduces ChatDev, an AI-powered virtual software development company using large language models to streamline coding processes through natural language communication. ChatDev aims to automate software creation, addressing the challenge of skill and capital limitations in software development, with promising success leveraging...