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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Apple integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT AI into its devices without payment, sparking speculation about the partnership's terms and benefits. The agreement could lead to increased user engagement for OpenAI and provide Apple with advanced AI capabilities.
NVIDIA introduces Nemotron-4 340B models for generating synthetic data to train large language models across industries. Developers can access and customize these models for free, optimizing data quality and performance.
Donald Trump used AI-generated speech after being impressed by the content. He praised AI as a "superpower" but also warned of its potential dangers.
Turkish student arrested for using AI and hidden devices to cheat on university entrance exam. Elaborate scheme involved camera disguised as shirt button and AI software.