IBM and Meta Launch the AI Alliance in collaboration with over 50 Founding Members and Collaborators globally including AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Cerebras, Cleveland Clinic, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Dell Technologies, EPFL, ETH, Hugging Face, Imperial College London, Intel, INSAIT, Linux Foundation, MLCommons, MOC Alliance operated by Boston University and Harvard University, NASA, NSF, Oracle, Partnership on Read more about AI Alliance Launches as an International Community of Leading Technology Developers, Researchers, and Adopters Collaborating Together to Advance Open, Safe, Responsible AI[…]

Alexandre Pouget at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and his colleagues used machine learning to analyse the chemical composition of 80 red wines from 12 years between 1990 and 2007. All the wines came from seven wine estates in the Bordeaux region of France. “We were interested in finding out whether there is a chemical Read more about AI can tell which chateau Bordeaux wines come from with 100% accuracy[…]

In a paper released on arXiv last week, a team of researchers from Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University calculated the amount of power AI systems use when asked to perform different tasks. After asking AIs to perform 1,000 inferences for each task, the researchers found text-based AI tasks are more energy-efficient than jobs involving Read more about One AI image needs as much power as a smartphone charge[…]

Would you trust Elon Musk with your mortgage? Or Big Tech with your benefits? Us neither. That’s what’s at stake as the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act reaches the final stage of negotiations. For all its big talk, it seems like the EU is buckling to Big Tech. EU lawmakers have been tasked with developing the Read more about A(I) deal at any cost: Will the EU buckle to Big Tech?[…]

[…] In a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of researchers led by Dion Häfner, a computer scientist at the University of Copenhagen, describe a clever way to make AI more understandable. They have managed to build a neural network, use it to solve a tricky problem, and then capture Read more about A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves, more importantly: to see how an AI finds its results[…]

Stable Diffusion’s generative art can now be animated, developer Stability AI announced. The company has released a new product called Stable Video Diffusion into a research preview, allowing users to create video from a single image. “This state-of-the-art generative AI video model represents a significant step in our journey toward creating models for everyone of Read more about The AI startup behind Stable Diffusion is now testing generative video[…]

Just a few weeks ago Judge William Orrick massively trimmed back the first big lawsuit that was filed against generative AI companies for training their works on copyright-covered materials. Most of the case was dismissed, and what bits remained may not last much longer. And now, it appears that Judge Vince Chhabria (who has been Read more about Sarah Silverman’s retarded AI Case Isn’t Going Very Well Either[…]

Global medium-range weather forecasting is critical to decision-making across many social and economic domains. Traditional numerical weather prediction uses increased compute resources to improve forecast accuracy, but does not directly use historical weather data to improve the underlying model. Here, we introduce “GraphCast,” a machine learning-based method trained directly from reanalysis data. It predicts hundreds Read more about AI weather forecaster complements traditional models very well[…]

Brave, the privacy-focused browser that automatically blocks unwanted ads and trackers, is rolling out Leo — a native AI assistant that the company claims provides “unparalleled privacy” compared to some other AI chatbot services. Following several months of testing, Leo is now available to use for free by all Brave desktop users running version 1.60 Read more about Brave rivals Bing and ChatGPT with new privacy-focused AI chatbot[…]

The preconceived notions people have about AI — and what they’re told before they use it — mold their experiences with these tools in ways researchers are beginning to unpack. Why it matters: As AI seeps into medicine, news, politics, business and a host of other industries and services, human psychology gives the technology’s creators Read more about Priming and Placebo effects shape how humans interact with AI[…]

Ben Welsh has a running list of the news organizations blocking OpenAI crawlers: In total, 532 of 1,147 news publishers surveyed by the homepages.news archive have instructed OpenAI, Google AI or the non-profit Common Crawl to stop scanning their sites, which amounts to 46.4% of the sample. The three organizations systematically crawl web sites to Read more about News organizations blocking OpenAI[…]

[…] I completely understand why some authors are extremely upset about finding out that their works were used to train AI. It feels wrong. It feels exploitive. (I do not understand their lawsuits, because I think they’re very much confused about how copyright law works. ) But, to me, many of the complaints about this Read more about Publishing A Book Means No Longer Having Control Over How Others Feel About It, Or How They’re Inspired By It. And That Includes AI.[…]