OpenAI Poaches 3 Top Engineers From DeepMind
OpenAI announced today it has hired three senior computer vision and machine learning engineers from rival Google DeepMind, all of whom will work in a newly opened OpenAI office in …
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How the AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research
Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science, when trying to reverse engineer why the trio won the prize this …
Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office
We don’t save any of the material with Copilot Vision, so once you close the browser after your session, it all just disappears. It fully deletes. But I’m thinking about …
OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode
In late July, OpenAI began rolling out an eerily humanlike voice interface for ChatGPT. In a safety analysis released today, the company acknowledges that this anthropomorphic voice may lure some …
Google DeepMind’s Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blindspot
Several years before ChatGPT began jibber-jabbering away, Google developed a very different kind of artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo that learned to play the board game Go with superhuman skill …
Google DeepMind’s Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution
In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper—thanks to a large language model …
With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life
In 2021, AI research lab DeepMind announced the development of its first digital biology neural network, AlphaFold. The model was capable of accurately predicting the 3D structure of proteins, which …
Astra Is Google’s ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT
Pulkit Agrawal, an assistant professor at MIT who works on AI and robotics, says Google’s and OpenAI’s latest demos are impressive and show how rapidly multimodal AI models have advanced. …
Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future
This week a startup called Cognition AI caused a bit of a stir by releasing a demo showing an artificial intelligence program called Devin performing work usually done by well-paid …
Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play ‘Goat Simulator 3’
“SIMA takes one step further and shows stronger generalization to new games,” he says. “The number of environments is still very small, but I think SIMA is on the right …