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…
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…
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…
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…
DO WE DARE USE GENERATIVE AI FOR MENTAL HEALTH?
THE MENTAL-HEALTH APP WOEBOT launched in 2017, back when “chatbot” wasn’t a familiar term and someone seeking a therapist could only imagine talking to a human being. Woebot was something exciting and new: a way for people to get on-demand mental-health support…
Forecasting Transformative AI, Part 1: What Kind of AI?
This is the first of four posts summarizing hundreds of pages of technical reports focused almost entirely on forecasting one number. It’s the single number I’d probably most value having a good estimate for: the year by which transformative AI will…
New AI Project Aims to Mimic the Human Neocortex The Gates-funded Thousand Brains Project offers a fundamentally different approach to AI
An ambitious new endeavor called the Thousand Brains Project aims to develop a new AI framework that its founder says will operate on the same principles as the human brain—yet will be fundamentally different from the principles underlying the deep neural networks that dominate artificial…
AI and Big Data
In general terms, AI refers to computational tools that are able to substitute for human intelligence in the performance of certain tasks. This technology is currently advancing at a breakneck pace, much like the exponential growth experienced by database technology…
What is generative AI, what are foundation models, and why do they matter?
Since its launch in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has captured the imagination of both consumers and enterprise leaders by demonstrating the potential generative AI has to dramatically transform the ways we live and work. As the scope of its impact…
Five security risks from Generative AI
We’re all still coming to grips with the exciting possibilities of Generative AI (GenAI) as a technology that can create realistic and novel content, such as images, text, audio, and video. Its use cases will span the enterprise and can…