How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED

Can AI help us answer life’s biggest questions? In this visionary conversation, Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis delves into the history and incredible capabilities of AI with head of TED Chris Anderson. Hassabis explains how AI models like AlphaFold — which accurately predicted the shapes of all 200 million proteins known to science in under a year — have already accelerated scientific discovery in ways that will benefit humanity. Next up? Hassabis says AI has the potential to unlock the greatest mysteries surrounding our minds, bodies and the universe.

Reid Hoffman meets his AI twin – Full

I recently created an AI version of myself—REID AI—and recorded a Q&A to see how this digital twin might challenge me in new ways. The video avatar is generated by Hour One, its voice was created by Eleven Labs, and its persona—the way that REID AI formulates responses—is generated from a custom chatbot built on GPT-4 that was trained on my books, speeches, podcasts and other content that I’ve produced over the last few decades. I decided to interview it to test its capability and how closely its responses match—and test—my thinking. Then, REID AI asked me some questions on AI and technology. I thought I would hate this, but I’ve actually ended up finding the whole experience interesting and thought-provoking.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED

When it comes to artificial intelligence, what are we actually creating? Even those closest to its development are struggling to describe exactly where things are headed, says Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, one of the primary architects of the AI models many of us use today. He offers an honest and compelling new vision for the future of AI, proposing an unignorable metaphor — a new digital species — to focus attention on this extraordinary moment. (Followed by a Q&A with head of TED Chris Anderson)

Apple Shocks Again: Introducing OpenELM – Open Source AI Model That Changes Everything!

Apple’s latest AI breakthrough, OpenELM, is an open-source language model that significantly outperforms earlier models like OLMo by being 2.36 percent more accurate while using only half the pretraining tokens. This state-of-the-art model, developed using texts from diverse public sources, incorporates advanced techniques such as layer-wise scaling and RMSNorm to enhance performance and efficiency. With its open-source availability, OpenELM provides unprecedented access to its training processes and performance benchmarks, encouraging widespread innovation and collaboration in the AI research community.

AI now beats humans at some basic tasks, report finds

Artificial intelligence has become so advanced it has now surpassed human performance in several basic tasks, according to a new report from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Russell Wald, deputy director of the institute, joins CBS News to unpack more key findings from the study.

It’s Been a Good Run, Phone Providers


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