IMF report recommends fiscal policies to address AI carbon emissions. Generative AI advances at breakneck speed.
Travel companies are integrating generative AI for virtual travel agents, enhancing customer experiences with personalized recommendations and efficient booking processes. Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock offer robust safeguards to mitigate risks and enable safe deployment of generative AI technologies, providing industry-leading safety protection and customization options for responsible AI pract...
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.
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.
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.
McDonald’s ends AI chatbot drive-thru test after wrong order viral videos raise concerns. Over 100 US locations to remove automated order systems.
Businesses can modernize document handling with intelligent automation on AWS, optimizing workflows and enhancing accuracy. AI can revolutionize financial processes by automatically extracting data from emails, reducing costs and improving efficiency.
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.
AI-powered blood test predicts Parkinson's 7 years early, improving treatment research. Test could be available in NHS labs in 2 years.
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 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.
Nvidia surpasses Microsoft and Apple to become world's most valuable company with $3.34tn market cap, driven by AI chip dominance. Shares soar as chipmaker overtakes Apple, solidifying position in tech market.
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.
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.
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.