Google launches Gemini, upping the stakes in the global AI race

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Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence Wednesday with the launch of project Gemini, an AI model trained to behave in human-like ways that's likely to intensify the debate about the technology's potential promise and perils.

OpenAI Switch Kit: Swap OpenAI with any open-source model

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Opinion: Education should look to the way artists are embracing AI, instead of turning its back on the technology

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make a major impact on many sectors of society over the coming decades. Some of these effects may be positive, others less so.

Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework

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Apple demonstrates its commitment to AI with new open source code release

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That's the power of semantics — because Apple calls it Machine Learning instead of AI, it is believed to not be doing AI enough.

Review examines machine learning concepts for microbiologists

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In a review in Nature Reviews Microbiology, Professor Levi Waldron and colleagues highlight the increasing importance of machine learning in microbiology, where it is used for tasks such as predicting antibiotic resistance and associating human microbiome features with complex host diseases.

Google's answer to GPT-4 is Gemini: 'the most capable model we’ve ever built'

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It's the first of “a new generation of AI models, inspired by the way people understand and interact with the world,” CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a Google blog post. The system has been developed from the ground up as an integrated multimodal AI.

Google announces new AI processing chips and a cloud 'hypercomputer'

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Undoubtedly, 2023 has been the year of generative AI, and Google is marking its end with even more AI developments. The Cloud TPU v5p is an AI accelerator, training and serving models. The Cloud TPU v5p follows previous iterations like the v5e and v4.

Google says its Gemini AI outperforms both GPT-4 and expert humans

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The Gemini artificial intelligence comes in a variety of sizes, with Google saying its mid-range version will be incorporated into its Bard chatbot and available to the public from today.

Google’s Bard chatbot is getting way better thanks to Gemini

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Bard has access to Google’s apps and now its best large language model, too. (Google says Gemini is coming to more languages and countries “in the near future.”). Bard is now running...

Google DeepMind’s new Gemini model looks amazing—but could signal peak AI hype

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Today the company finally revealed what it has been working on in secret all this time. Was the hype justified? Yes—and no. Gemini is Google’s biggest AI launch yet, its push to take on competitors OpenAI and Microsoft in the….

AI can copy human social learning skills in real time, DeepMind finds

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This type of social learning, known in literature as cultural transmission, enables us to imitate actions and behaviours in real time. But can AI also develop social learning skills the same way? Now, a groundbreaking…This story continues at The Next Web.

Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI's Shadowy Q* Project

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Apple launches MLX machine-learning framework for Apple Silicon

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Apple’s machine learning (ML) teams have released a new ML framework for Apple Silicon: MLX, or ML Explore arrives after being tested over the summer and is now available through GitHub. Machine Learning for Apple Silicon.

The Morning After: Microsoft upgrades its Copilot chatbot

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Climate groups say Biden AI order doesn’t address AI’s climate impact

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. The letter accuses the administration of neglecting AI’s impact on spreading disinformation on...

Here's why half of developers will soon use AI-augmented software

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Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools to assist in the creation, testing and operation of software are expected to be adopted by half of all enterprise software engineers by 2027, according to a new study by Gartner Research.

Musk's AI startup seeks to raise $1 bn

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Elon Musk is seeking to raise a billion dollars for his xAI artificial intelligence company that he hopes will compete with ChatGPT's Open AI.

How Nations Are Losing a Global Race to Tackle A.I.’s Harms

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Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the United States and others are trying to respond — but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies.

Microsoft supercharges Copilot with OpenAI upgrades

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Microsoft announced a series of major upgrades coming soon to its Copilot service for coders and developers.

How to Stop Another OpenAI Meltdown

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OpenAI designed its governance structure to protect humanity—and it imploded. The company could take pointers from Mozilla and other projects combining lofty goals with for-profit ventures.