Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Secure Superintelligence
Ashlee Vance | Bloomberg
“For the previous a number of months, the query ‘The place’s Ilya?’ has turn into a typical chorus throughout the world of synthetic intelligence. …Now Sutskever is introducing [a new] undertaking, a enterprise referred to as Secure Superintelligence Inc. aiming to create a secure, highly effective synthetic intelligence system inside a pure analysis group that has no near-term intention of promoting AI services or products. In different phrases, he’s trying to proceed his work with out lots of the distractions that rivals comparable to OpenAI, Google and Anthropic face.”
How AI Is Revolutionizing Drug Growth
Steve Lohr | The New York Instances
“Many of the early enterprise makes use of of generative AI, which may produce every thing from poetry to pc packages, have been to assist take the drudgery out of routine workplace duties, customer support and code writing. But drug discovery and improvement is a big trade that specialists say is ripe for an AI makeover. AI is a ‘once-in-a-century alternative’ for the pharmaceutical enterprise, in accordance with the consulting agency McKinsey & Firm.”
Starlink Mini Brings House Web to Backpackers
Thomas Ricker | The Verge
“SpaceX’s Starlink internet-from-space service is already accessible for boats, planes, vanlifers, Amazonian villages, and rural houses in over 75 nations—now it’s coming to backpackers. The brand new compact DC-powered Starlink Mini is concerning the measurement of a thick laptop computer and integrates the Wi-Fi router proper contained in the dish. And regardless of utilizing much less energy than different Starlink terminals, it may well nonetheless ship speeds over 100 Mbps.”
Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional Group Is Reportedly Centered on Constructing a Cheaper Headset
Jay Peters | The Verge
“Apple might not be engaged on a brand new high-end Imaginative and prescient headset amid slowing gross sales of the Imaginative and prescient Professional, in accordance with a brand new report from The Info. As an alternative, Apple has apparently been discovering methods to cut back the price of parts for the primary mannequin and is engaged on a less expensive Imaginative and prescient headset that it goals to ship by the tip of 2025.”
We’re Nonetheless Ready for the Subsequent Massive Leap in AI
Will Knight | Wired
“Greater than a 12 months after GPT-4 spurred a frenzy of recent funding in AI, it could be turning out to be harder to supply massive new leaps in machine intelligence. With GPT-4 and related fashions educated on big swathes of on-line textual content, imagery, and video, it’s getting harder to search out new sources of knowledge to feed to machine-learning algorithms. Making fashions considerably bigger, so that they have extra capability to study, is anticipated to value billions of {dollars}.”
Let Slip the Robotic Canine of Struggle
Jared Keller | Wired
“The Chinese language army lately unveiled a brand new form of battle buddy for its troopers: a ‘robotic canine’ with a machine gun strapped to its again. …China’s demonstration clearly rankled worldwide observers, prompting at least one American lawmaker to name on the US Protection Division for a report on ‘rifle-toting robotic canine’ and their potential nationwide safety implications. But when the Chinese language army is pioneering the weaponization of robotic canine, then america army isn’t far behind.”
Waabi’s GenAI Guarantees to Do So A lot Extra Than Energy Self-Driving Vehicles
Rebecca Bellan | TechCrunch
“‘This know-how is extraordinarily, extraordinarily highly effective,’ mentioned [Waabi founder and CEO Raquel] Urtasun, who spoke to TechCrunch through video interview, a whiteboard stuffed with hieroglyphic-looking formulation behind her. ‘It has this superb capability to generalize, it’s very versatile, and it’s very quick to develop. And it’s one thing that we are able to increase to do way more than trucking sooner or later. …This may very well be robotaxis. This may very well be humanoids or warehouse robotics. This know-how can remedy any of these use circumstances.’”
Apple, Microsoft Shrink AI Fashions to Enhance Them
Shubham Agarwal | IEEE Spectrum
“In the previous couple of months…a number of the largest tech firms, together with Apple and Microsoft, have launched small language fashions (SLMs). These fashions are a fraction of the scale of their LLM counterparts and but, on many benchmarks, can match and even outperform them in textual content technology. …[And] as a result of SLMs don’t eat practically as a lot power as LLMs, they will additionally run regionally on units like smartphones and laptops (as an alternative of within the cloud) to protect information privateness and personalize them to every individual.”
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Microphone Made from Atom-Thick Graphene Might Be Utilized in Smartphones
Alex Wilkins | New Scientist
“The principle benefit of their graphene system is that it may be a lot smaller than a standard microphone, says Verbiest, and would want a membrane that’s simply 10 micrometers throughout—an space 200 occasions smaller than a equally performing standard microphone.”
