Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Protected Superintelligence
Ashlee Vance | Bloomberg
“For the previous a number of months, the query ‘The place’s Ilya?’ has develop into a standard chorus inside the world of synthetic intelligence. …Now Sutskever is introducing [a new] undertaking, a enterprise known as Protected 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 lots of the distractions that rivals comparable to OpenAI, Google and Anthropic face.”
How AI Is Revolutionizing Drug Improvement
Steve Lohr | The New York Instances
“A lot of the early enterprise makes use of of generative AI, which may produce all the pieces from poetry to laptop packages, have been to assist take the drudgery out of routine workplace duties, customer support and code writing. But drug discovery and growth is a large business that consultants say is ripe for an AI makeover. AI is a ‘once-in-a-century alternative’ for the pharmaceutical enterprise, based on the consulting agency McKinsey & Firm.”
Starlink Mini Brings House 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 houses in over 75 nations—now it’s coming to backpackers. The brand new compact DC-powered Starlink Mini is in regards to the measurement 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 may nonetheless ship speeds over 100 Mbps.”
Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional Crew 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, based on a brand new report from The Data. As a substitute, 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 Large Leap in AI
Will Knight | Wired
“Greater than a 12 months after GPT-4 spurred a frenzy of recent funding in AI, it could be turning out to be harder to supply large new leaps in machine intelligence. With GPT-4 and comparable fashions educated on enormous swathes of on-line textual content, imagery, and video, it’s getting harder to seek out new sources of information to feed to machine-learning algorithms. Making fashions considerably bigger, so that they have extra capability to be taught, is anticipated to price billions of {dollars}.”
Let Slip the Robotic Canines of Warfare
Jared Keller | Wired
“The Chinese language navy just lately unveiled a brand new type 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 navy is pioneering the weaponization of robotic canine, then the US navy isn’t far behind.”
Waabi’s GenAI Guarantees to Do So A lot Extra Than Energy Self-Driving Vans
Rebecca Bellan | TechCrunch
“‘This expertise is extraordinarily, extraordinarily highly effective,’ mentioned [Waabi founder and CEO Raquel] Urtasun, who spoke to TechCrunch through 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 broaden to do way more than trucking sooner or later. …This may very well be robotaxis. This may very well be humanoids or warehouse robotics. This expertise can remedy any of these use instances.’”
Apple, Microsoft Shrink AI Fashions to Enhance Them
Shubham Agarwal | IEEE Spectrum
“In the previous couple of months…among the largest tech firms, together with Apple and Microsoft, have launched small language fashions (SLMs). These fashions are a fraction of the scale 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 devour practically 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 particular person.”
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Microphone Fabricated from Atom-Thick Graphene Might Be Utilized in Smartphones
Alex Wilkins | New Scientist
“The principle benefit of their graphene system is that it may be a lot smaller than a standard 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.”
