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AI Researchers Issue Warning: Treat AI Risks as Global Priority

Does artificial intelligence represent an existential threat to humanity along the lines of nuclear war and pandemics? A new statement signed by AI scientists and other notable figures says it should be treated as such. Read more…

Sam Altman Debunks GPT-5 Rumors, Shifts Focus to Improving Existing Models

Those anticipating an eventual GPT-5 release may have a long time to wait. The current trend of developing ever-larger AI models like GPT-4 may soon come to an end, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “I think we’ Read more…

Mozilla.ai Launches with $30M to Build Trustworthy AI

Mozilla has announced it is launching an AI startup, Mozilla.ai. The new startup will be aimed at building a trustworthy and independent open-source AI ecosystem and is backed by an initial $30 million seed investment fr Read more…

Companions, Not Replacements: Chatbots Will Not Succeed Search Engines Just Yet

The internet has been abuzz with news about the AI-powered search engine wars between Google and Microsoft. Microsoft has been collaborating with OpenAI to integrate an upgraded version of ChatGPT within its Bing search Read more…

Chatbot Search Wars Intensify with Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Unveiling of AI-powered Bing

Google has officially thrown its hat into the chatbot ring with the unveiling of Bard, its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, an Read more…

Google Suspends Senior Engineer After He Claims LaMDA is Sentient

Google has placed a senior software engineer on leave for violating its confidentiality policies after he publicly claimed its LaMDA conversational AI system is sentient. Blake Lemoine was part of Google's Responsible AI Read more…

Google’s Massive New Language Model Can Explain Jokes

Nearly two years ago, OpenAI’s 175 billion-parameter GPT-3 language model opened the world’s eyes to what large language models (LLMs) could accomplish with relatively little input, sensibly answering questions, tran Read more…

Google’s ‘Breakthrough’ LaMDA Promises to Elevate the Common Chatbot

Many of Google’s language processing efforts – like BERT and, more recently, MUM – are focused on returning search queries. But as Google moves more toward Assistant – and search queries in general become more de Read more…

Google’s ‘MUM’ Search AI Aims to Move Beyond Simple Answers

Google’s current search answers may seem complex compared to a few years ago, but to hear the search giant talk about it, this is just the beginning – and there’s a long, long way to go. Now, Google is introducing Read more…

Google’s New Switch Transformer Model Achieves 1.6 Trillion Parameters, Efficiency Gains

Last year, OpenAI wowed the world with its eerily human language generator, GPT-3. The autoregressive model stood at a then-staggering 175 billion parameters, ten times higher than its predecessors. Now, Google is upping Read more…

Nature Index Provides AI-Generated Academic Article Summaries

When publishing an article in a major journal, researchers jump through a near-endless series of hoops to ensure the rigor of their research and the article’s conformity with the style of the journal. The most accessib Read more…

Googlers Speak Out on the Scourge of ML Underspecification

A few days ago, 40 authors (all but a handful hailing from Google) published a 59-page paper. The topic at hand: why so many machine learning models, borne out by internal testing, proceed to then fail spectacularly in r Read more…

Python Attracts Rookies as Well as Pros

It is no secret that the Python programming language is peaking in popularity among data scientists. Now, would-be coders are increasingly trying to “self-master” the big data framework via online tutorials, accordin Read more…

Busted: Google Remains Atop List of GDPR Fines

If the best way to get someone’s notice is to hit them in the pocketbook, then European regulators have the full attention of data giants like Google. The €50 million ($56 million) fine levied against Google (NASD Read more…

Google Launches TensorFlow Quantum

The worlds of quantum computing and machine learning are coming together with TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ), a new library unveiled today by Google. Google has been one of the leaders in the emerging field of quantum compu Read more…

Air Force AI Plan Treats Data as ‘Strategic’

The U.S. military’s approach to AI is equal parts offense and defense, acknowledging that primary adversary China could also weaponize the technology as a form of asymmetrical warfare in which U.S. military superiority Read more…

GitHub Hardens Supply Chain with a Query Engine

The GitHub code repository hosting service has moved to shore up its supply chain with a deal to acquire Semmle, creator of a semantic code analysis engine that allows developers to scan large codebases for vulnerabiliti Read more…

Funders Target Flexible Graph Databases

The graph database ecosystem continues to expand with new venture funding for Dgraph Labs Inc., a transactional and distributed graph database startup. The San Francisco-based startup announced an $11.5 million Series Read more…

Quobyte Plugs TensorFlow Into Scale-Out File System

Quobyte designed its file system with scalability in mind. It also designed it to handle multiple types of files and workload without burdening human administrators with extra complexity. Both of those characteristics ar Read more…

Google Cloud Unveils Slew of New Data Management and Analytics Services

Google today unveiled a handful of new cloud services designed to simplify common tasks in the data analytics workflow, including a beta of a new data integration and ETL service called Cloud Data Fusion, the capability Read more…

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