Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Secure Superintelligence
Ashlee Vance | Bloomberg
“For the previous a number of months, the query ‘The place’s Ilya?’ has grow to be a typical chorus inside the world of synthetic intelligence. …Now Sutskever is introducing [a new] challenge, a enterprise referred to as Secure Superintelligence Inc. aiming to create a protected, highly effective synthetic intelligence system inside a pure analysis group that has no near-term intention of promoting AI services or products. In different phrases, he’s trying to proceed his work with out most of the distractions that rivals resembling OpenAI, Google and Anthropic face.”
How AI Is Revolutionizing Drug Growth
Steve Lohr | The New York Instances
“Many of the early enterprise makes use of of generative AI, which might produce every part from poetry to laptop applications, have been to assist take the drudgery out of routine workplace duties, customer support and code writing. But drug discovery and growth is a big business that consultants say is ripe for an AI makeover. AI is a ‘once-in-a-century alternative’ for the pharmaceutical enterprise, in keeping with the consulting agency McKinsey & Firm.”
Starlink Mini Brings Area Web to Backpackers
Thomas Ricker | The Verge
“SpaceX’s Starlink internet-from-space service is already out there for boats, planes, vanlifers, Amazonian villages, and rural properties in over 75 nations—now it’s coming to backpackers. The brand new compact DC-powered Starlink Mini is concerning the dimension of a thick laptop computer and integrates the Wi-Fi router proper contained in the dish. And regardless of utilizing much less energy than different Starlink terminals, it will possibly nonetheless ship speeds over 100 Mbps.”
Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional Staff Is Reportedly Centered on Constructing a Cheaper Headset
Jay Peters | The Verge
“Apple could now not be engaged on a brand new high-end Imaginative and prescient headset amid slowing gross sales of the Imaginative and prescient Professional, in keeping with a brand new report from The Info. As an alternative, Apple has apparently been discovering methods to scale back the price of elements for the primary mannequin and is engaged on a less expensive Imaginative and prescient headset that it goals to ship by the top of 2025.”
We’re Nonetheless Ready for the Subsequent Huge Leap in AI
Will Knight | Wired
“Greater than a 12 months after GPT-4 spurred a frenzy of latest funding in AI, it could be turning out to be tougher to supply large new leaps in machine intelligence. With GPT-4 and comparable fashions educated on large swathes of on-line textual content, imagery, and video, it’s getting tougher to seek out new sources of information to feed to machine-learning algorithms. Making fashions considerably bigger, in order that they have extra capability to study, is anticipated to price billions of {dollars}.”
Let Slip the Robotic Canine of Struggle
Jared Keller | Wired
“The Chinese language army just lately unveiled a brand new form of battle buddy for its troopers: a ‘robotic canine’ with a machine gun strapped to its again. …China’s demonstration clearly rankled worldwide observers, prompting at least one American lawmaker to name on the US Protection Division for a report on ‘rifle-toting robotic canine’ and their potential nationwide safety implications. But when the Chinese language army is pioneering the weaponization of robotic canine, then the US army isn’t far behind.”
Waabi’s GenAI Guarantees to Do So A lot Extra Than Energy Self-Driving Vehicles
Rebecca Bellan | TechCrunch
“‘This know-how is extraordinarily, extraordinarily highly effective,’ stated [Waabi founder and CEO Raquel] Urtasun, who spoke to TechCrunch by way of video interview, a whiteboard filled with hieroglyphic-looking formulation behind her. ‘It has this superb skill to generalize, it’s very versatile, and it’s very quick to develop. And it’s one thing that we will develop to do far more than trucking sooner or later. …This could possibly be robotaxis. This could possibly be humanoids or warehouse robotics. This know-how can clear up any of these use circumstances.’”
Apple, Microsoft Shrink AI Fashions to Enhance Them
Shubham Agarwal | IEEE Spectrum
“In the previous few months…a number of the largest tech corporations, together with Apple and Microsoft, have launched small language fashions (SLMs). These fashions are a fraction of the dimensions of their LLM counterparts and but, on many benchmarks, can match and even outperform them in textual content technology. …[And] as a result of SLMs don’t eat almost as a lot power as LLMs, they’ll additionally run domestically on units like smartphones and laptops (as an alternative of within the cloud) to protect knowledge privateness and personalize them to every individual.”
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Microphone Product of Atom-Thick Graphene May Be Utilized in Smartphones
Alex Wilkins | New Scientist
“The primary benefit of their graphene system is that it may be a lot smaller than a traditional microphone, says Verbiest, and would wish a membrane that’s simply 10 micrometers throughout—an space 200 instances smaller than a equally performing standard microphone.”