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‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail
When you see the mythical Ouroboros, it’s perfectly logical to think, “Well, that won’t last.” A potent symbol — swallowing your own tail — but difficult in practice. It may be the case for AI as well, which, according to…
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of…
Elon Musk sets 2026 Optimus sale date. Here’s where other humanoid robots stand.
Ahead of Tuesday’s earnings, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the carmaker will begin selling its Optimus humanoid robot in 2026. In fact, Optimus has already started performing tasks autonomously, like handling batteries, in one of Tesla’s facilities, according to its…
Will Liquid Circuits Enable Brain-Imitating Computers? New microchips shuffle around ions like synapses in the human brain
Liquid circuits that mimic synapses in the brain can for the first time perform the kind of logical operations underlying modern computers, a new study finds. Near-term applications for these devices may include tasks such as image recognition, as well…
Proposed Changes to Canada’s Bill C-27 Do Little to Mitigate AI Harms
On September 28, 2023, Canada’s Standing Committee on Industry and Technology (INDU) passed a motion requesting Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne to release the proposed government amendments to Bill C-27, which the minister had mentioned in his testimony. In response,…
Nvidia Tops Llama 2, Stable Diffusion Speed Trials MLPerf releases new LLM and generative AI inferencing tests
Times change, and so must benchmarks. Now that we’re firmly in the age of massive generative AI, it’s time to add two such behemoths, Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL, to MLPerf’s inferencing tests. Version 4.0 of the benchmark tests more than 8,500 results from 23…
Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety MLCommons has made benchmarks for AI performance—now it’s time to measure safety
One of the management guru Peter Drucker’s most over-quoted turns of phrase is “what gets measured gets improved.” But it’s over-quoted for a reason: It’s true. Nowhere is it truer than in technology over the past 50 years. Moore’s law—which predicts that…
15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024 The AI Index tracks the generative AI boom, model costs, and responsible AI use
Each year, the AI Index lands on virtual desks with a louder virtual thud—this year, its 393 pages are a testament to the fact that AI is coming off a really big year in 2023. For the past three years, IEEE…
5 Ways to Strengthen the AI Acquisition Process
In our last article, A How-To Guide on Acquiring AI Systems, we explained why the IEEE P3119 Standard for the Procurement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Decision Systems (ADS) is needed. In this article, we give further details about the draft standard and the…
How Large Language Models Are Changing My Job The AI revolution as seen by a dean, a semiconductor VP, and a government regulator
Generative artificial intelligence, and large language models in particular, are starting to change how countless technical and creative professionals do their jobs. Programmers, for example, are getting code segments by prompting large language models. And graphic arts software packages such as Adobe Illustrator…