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Fei-Fei Li, known as the “godmother of AI,” has founded a startup called World Labs. The company aims to develop AI systems that can construct complete worlds with the physics, logic, and details of our physical reality. Despite an alleged slowdown in the AI sector, investors have already poured $230 million into the project, valuing …
Companies can achieve significant cost savings by building their own conversational AI based on the open source model Llama 3. This is the result of an analysis by Sam Oliver, founder of OpenFi, published on VentureBeat. According to Oliver, an average conversation with Llama 3 costs about $0.08, while the same conversation with OpenAI’s GPT-4 …
Stephen Fry warns about the dangers and challenges of artificial intelligence. In a speech at King’s College London, he compares the development of AI to a slowly but steadily rising river that will fundamentally change our lives. The author and actor emphasizes that we can hardly foresee the impact of this technology. Fry calls for …
Investment in AI has reached unprecedented levels. As Nate Rattner and Tom Dotan report in their article for the Wall Street Journal, tech giants and investors are spending hundreds of billions of US dollars on AI. In the last quarter alone, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta collectively invested more than $50 billion in capital expenditures, …
In California, SB 1047, a bill to regulate artificial intelligence, is sparking heated debate. The bill would require developers of large AI models to take safety measures and assess potential risks. Models with training costs of more than $100 million would be affected. Governor Gavin Newsom has until September 30 to decide whether to sign …
This article by Michael Trestman at VentureBeat offers a comprehensive insight into the development of “Agentic AI”, the hoped-for next level of artificial intelligence. This new form of AI promises to act and make decisions autonomously, which could fundamentally change business processes. Trestman explains the basics of this technology and its potential impact on various …
Artificial intelligence that requires specialized hardware is doomed to fail, according to Gartner analyst Erick Brethenoux. In an interview with The Register, he explained that GPUs could also be affected. Brethenoux sees the current phase of AI as a “brute force” approach in which immature programming techniques are compensated for by powerful hardware. He predicts …
Freelance writers and journalists are increasingly being hired by tech companies to write hypothetical responses for chatbots. These texts serve as training material for the AI, enabling it to deliver better and more reliable results. The demand for such AI annotators is high, as the models cannot be trained solely on synthetic data. Experts estimate …
Generative AI is increasingly producing questionable scientific papers that can be found, for example, via Google Scholar. This is the result of an analysis by Swedish researchers. They found 139 papers with evidence of covert use of ChatGPT, especially on controversial topics such as the environment and health. Most of these papers appeared in non-indexed …
Large technology companies are investing billions in the development of artificial intelligence. As Bloomberg reports, even AI startups with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding can barely keep up. Companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft, as well as a few startups like OpenAI, are spending huge sums on computing power, training data, and talent. …