AI Outperforms Humans in Theory of Mind Tests Large language models convincingly mimic the understanding of mental states
Theory of mind—the ability to understand other people’s mental states—is what makes the social world of humans go around. It’s what helps you decide what to say in a tense situation, guess what drivers in other cars are about to…
Google’s New AI Is Learning to Diagnose Patients
The DeepMind and Google Research teams turn to medicine with AMIE Navigating health care systems as a patient can be daunting at the best of times, whether you’re interpreting jargon-filled diagnoses or determining which specialists to see next. Similarly, doctors…
Nvidia Conquers Latest AI Tests GPU maker tops new MLPerf benchmarks on graph neural nets and LLM fine-tuning
For years, Nvidia has dominated many machine learning benchmarks, and now there are two more notches in its belt. MLPerf, the AI benchmarking suite sometimes called “the Olympics of machine learning,” has released a new set of training tests to help make more and…
Meta releases its biggest ‘open’ AI model yet
Meta’s latest open source AI model is its biggest yet. Today, Meta said it is releasing Llama 3.1 405B, a model containing 405 billion parameters. Parameters roughly correspond to a model’s problem-solving skills, and models with more parameters generally perform…
What Can AI Researchers Learn From Alien Hunters? The SETI Institute’s approach has lessons for research on artificial general intelligence
The emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI)—systems that can perform any task a human can—could be the most important event in human history, one that radically affects all aspects of our collective lives. Yet AGI, which could emerge soon, remains an…
10 ways artificial intelligence is transforming operations management
Operations management is about finding ways to do things more efficiently, precisely and smoothly. It includes a broad range of activities, such as planning, organizing, inventory and supply chain management, production scheduling, quality control, logistics and the effective running of processes and asset…
Marco Hutter Wants to Solve Robotics’ Hard Problems The AI Institute’s new Zurich head will focus on reliable, mobile robots
Last December, the AI Institute announced that it was opening an office in Zurich as a European counterpart to its Boston headquarters and recruited Marco Hutter to helm the office. Hutter also runs the Robotic Systems Lab at ETH Zurich, arguably best known as the…
The Who, Where, and How of Regulating AI
Jurisdictions joust over toxic chatbots; policymakers ponder existential risks During the past year, perhaps the only thing that has advanced as quickly as artificial intelligence is worry about artificial intelligence. In the near term, many fear that chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT will flood…
AI that’s ready forbusiness starts withdata ready for AI
The quality and quantity of data can make or break AI success, and organizationsthat effectively harness and manage their data will reap the mostbenefits. Establishing a robust foundation of high-quality, secure and wellgoverned data is essential for driving business value…
Facebook AI Launches Its Deepfake Detection Challenge At the NeurIPS conference, Facebook asked researchers to build tools to spot deepfake videos
IN SEPTEMBER,Facebook sent out a strange casting call: We need all types of people to look into a webcam or phone camera and say very mundane things. The actors stood in bedrooms, hallways, and backyards, and they talked about topics such…