Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI,” has warned that AI could potentially lead to human extinction within the next ten years. In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, reported by Tom McArdle for The Telegraph, Hinton estimated a 10 to 20 percent chance of AI causing humanity’s downfall. The …
Venture capital expert Martina Lauchengco from Costanoa Ventures has shared her predictions for AI developments in 2025 in an article published by VentureBeat. Drawing from her 30-year experience in technology and current observations of foundation models, she outlines several key trends expected to shape the AI landscape. According to Lauchengco, AI containment will become a …
Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude has become a significant force in the global software development market, with coding-related revenue increasing by 1,000% in three months. According to an article by Michael Nuñez in VentureBeat, software development now represents more than 10% of all Claude interactions. The AI tool can analyze up to 200,000 tokens of context …
According to a new Google Cloud trends report, enterprises will significantly scale their AI implementations in 2025, with a focus on AI agents and multimodal systems. As reported by Taryn Plumb in VentureBeat, companies are expected to move beyond current experimentation phases toward production-scale deployments. The report identifies six types of AI agents, from customer …
Artificial intelligence models are facing significant degradation due to excessive use of synthetic training data, according to Rick Song, CEO of Persona, writing in VentureBeat. This phenomenon, known as “model collapse” or “model autophagy disorder,” occurs when AI systems are repeatedly trained on artificially generated content rather than human-created data. The practice can lead to …
OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever believes the current approach to training artificial intelligence models will undergo significant changes. Speaking at the NeurIPS conference in Vancouver, as reported by Kylie Robison, Sutskever compared available training data to fossil fuels, stating that both are finite resources. He argues that the internet’s limited supply of human-generated content …
A comprehensive analysis published by SemiAnalysis, authored by Dylan Patel and colleagues, reveals that artificial intelligence scaling laws remain robust despite recent skepticism. The report details how major AI labs are finding new ways to improve model performance beyond traditional pre-training methods. The analysis specifically examines OpenAI’s O1 Pro architecture and explains various scaling approaches …
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman believes artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be achievable within the next five to ten years, according to an interview with Nilay Patel from The Verge. Suleyman emphasizes that AGI should be understood as a general-purpose learning system capable of performing well across all human-level training environments, rather than as superintelligence. …
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has marked its second anniversary since its launch in November 2022, sparking unprecedented growth in artificial intelligence development. According to Gary Grossman, EVP of technology practice at Edelman, the AI chatbot’s release led to a dramatic surge in AI startups, with current estimates suggesting around 70,000 AI companies worldwide – double the number …
Technology journalist Om Malik argues that traditional web browsers may need fundamental changes to remain relevant in an era of artificial intelligence and augmented reality. In an article published on Crazy Stupid Tech, Malik explains how his experience with Apple’s Vision Pro headset revealed the limitations of conventional browsers in immersive environments. The article details …