Artificial neural networks

Google’s launch of Gemini yesterday was like a bellowing announcement that a new king has arrived in the AI space, but Apple had its own AI launch, or more like a quiet whimper that tried to go unnoticed. The iPhone creator released an open-source machine learning framework, MLX, that runs on Apple’s chips. MLX could one day bring generative AI apps to Apple products, but that day is not today.Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI Unlocked“Just in time for the holidays, we are releasing some new software…

Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Google is reportedly set to virtually preview its generative AI competitor to ChatGPT, Gemini, as soon as this week, according to The Information Monday. The search giant hopes to catch OpenAI on its heels as the Microsoft-backed company recovers from its dramatic board kerfuffle along with the firing and re-hiring of Sam Altman.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedGoogle delayed the launch of Gemini for some time now. Its generative AI chatbot promises to…

Photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images)There’s been a lot of talk about AGI lately—artificial general intelligence—the much-coveted AI development goal that every company in Silicon Valley is currently racing to achieve. AGI refers to a hypothetical point in the future when AI algorithms will be able to do most of the jobs that humans currently do. According to this theory of events, the emergence of AGI will bring about fundamental changes in society—ushering in a “post-work” world, wherein humans can sit around enjoying…

OpenAI’s GPT Store, a marketplace of customizable chatbots, is slated to roll out any day now, but users should be careful about uploading sensitive information when building GPTs. Research from cybersecurity and safety firm Adversa AI indicates GPTs will leak data about how they were built, including the source documents used to teach them, merely by asking the GPT some questions.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI Unlocked“The people who are now building GPTs, most of them are not really aware about security,”…

Image: Felix-Lebelle (Shutterstock)Google is having a hard time catching up with OpenAI. Google’s competitor to ChatGPT will not be ready until early 2024, after previously telling some cloud customers it would get to use Gemini AI in November of this year, sources told The Information Thursday.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Google Brain and Google Deepmind have been working on artificial intelligence since the early 2010s, but Google has somehow missed the 2023 hype cycle…

Microsoft will now make its own chips to power Azure, Copilot, and ChatGPT, CEO Satya Nadella announced at the Microsoft Ignite conference Wednesday. The Maia 100 can be used to train AI models and will start rolling out into Azure data centers early next year, reducing the company’s reliance on Nvidia GPUs.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech“Azure’s end-to-end AI architecture, now optimized down to the silicon with Maia, paves the way for training more capable models and making those models cheaper for…

YouTube released new policy updates on Tuesday to combat AI-generated content that resembles the voice and style of music artists. Earlier this year, “Heart on My Sleeve,” a song that sounds like a track made by Drake and The Weeknd, created with generative AI, garnered over 600,000 plays and was even considered for a Grammy nomination.Can AI Help with Mental Health?“We’re also introducing the ability for our music partners to request the removal of AI-generated music content that mimics an artist’s unique singing or…

Waste is sort of the thesis statement of modern economics, and big tech is no different. Google recently published its 2023 Environmental Report which sheds some light on its water consumption—and a more aggressive foray into artificial intelligence could make it worse.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechThe company revealed in the report, published on Monday, that its data centers and offices consumed a combined 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022, typically to cool facilities. That’s an amount equivalent…

Image: rarrarorro (Shutterstock)The AI gold rush is showing no signs of slowing down. As ChatGPT continues to enamor the world with its strings of relatively coherent text, Apple is looking for its piece of the pie by developing its own artificial intelligence engine.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechBloomberg’s ever-reliable Mark Gurman reported today that Apple has constructed its own internal infrastructure upon which itwill build large language models to compete against the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT,…

As the AI bubble continues to inflate—for better or worse—two titans of the tech industry, Microsoft and Meta, have unveiled the second generation of LLaMA, and they’re giving competitor OpenAI a run for its money by making it open source.Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots NextMeta announced the new open-accessLlama, which stands for Large Language Model Meta AI, in a blog post today. The corporation explained that letting people peer under the hood of Llama was an important step in making the AI safer,…