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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 makes its Gemini chatbot faster and more widely available
In its bid to maintain pace with generative AI rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI, Google is rolling out updates to the no-fee tier of Gemini, its AI-powered chatbot. The updates are focused on making the platform more performant — and more…
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…
New Techniques Emerge to Stop Audio Deepfakes A recent FTC challenge crowned three ways to thwart nefarious voice clones
Voice cloning—in which AI is used to create fake yet realistic-sounding speech—has its benefits, such as generating synthetic voices for people with speech impairments. But the technology also has plenty of malicious uses: Scammers can use AI to clone voices to impersonate someone and swindle…
Experiment finds AI boosts creativity individually — but lowers it collectively
A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: It appeared to help less naturally creative people write more original short stories — but dampened the creativity of the group as a…
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…