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…