The Battle for Better, Broader, More Inclusive AI
With Latimer, an LLM that includes black and brown voices, data is still king AI’s inclusivity problem is no secret. According to the ACLU, AI systems can perpetuate housing discrimination and bias in the justice system, among other harms. Bias in the…
Google, Intel, Nvidia Battle in Generative AI Training
MLPerf training tests put Nvidia ahead, Intel close, and Google well behind The leading public apples-to-apples test for computer systems’ ability to train machine-learning neural networks has fully entered the generative AI era. Earlier this year, MLPerf added a test for training large…
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem
Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The degree to which large language…
Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous
But the regulations that could rein it in would benefit all of AI This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. When people think…
Supercomputer Emulator: AI’s New Role in Science
Microsoft’s head of AI4Science sees machine learning partially supplanting simulation Artificial intelligence has become an indispensable tool in many scientists’ lives, such that its use by researchers now has its own moniker—AI4Science—used by conferences and laboratories. Last month, Microsoft announced its own AI4Science initiative,…
Printing Circuits on Nanomagnets Yields a New Breed of AI
LANL researchers have fabricated AI algorithms out of physical hardware—pioneering a new form of analog computing At the intersection of engineered materials and computation, spin-glass systems comprise a disordered system of nanomagnets arising from random interactions and competition between two…
AI-Assisted Pathology Ready For Mainstream
Australian system promises tenfold productivity increase Laboratory scientists and clinical pathologists currently spend hours in darkened rooms analyzing and testing tissue and fluids of patients for evidence of disease. Unlike blood tests, which are performed using automated analyzers, pathology samples are subject…
Spectrum’s Top AI Stories of 2023
The AI apocalypse, ChatGPT hallucinations, Nvidia’s success, and more 2023 may well go down in history as one of the most wild and dramatic years in the history of artificial intelligence. People were still struggling to understand the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT,…
IBM’S AI Chip May Find Use in Generative AI
The new chip is 14 times as energy efficient at speech recognition as conventional chips An artificial intelligence chip from IBM is more than a dozen times as energy efficient as conventional microchips at speech recognition. Many controversial AI systems, including ChatGPT and other…
AI Can’t Take Over Everyone’s Jobs Soon (If Ever)
Models are still expensive to run, hard to use, and frequently wrong “Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones?” This is one of several questions posed by the Future of Life Institute’s recent call for a pause on “giant AI…