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Once we get computers to match human-level intelligence, they won’t stop there. With deep knowledge, machine-level mathematical abilities, and better algorithms, they’ll create superintelligence, right?Yeah, there's no question that machines will eventually be smarter than humans. We don't know how long it's going to take—it could be years, it could be centuries.At that point, do we have to batten down the hatches?No, no. We’ll all have AI assistants, and it will be like working with a staff of super smart people. They…

The comments were delivered by Meta’s senior AI researcher during a press conference in Paris Good morning tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: Oracle’s Health Unit Shrinks with Job Cuts and Rescinded Offers. Fast-Track Insights: Hong Kong Urges 3 Major Banks to Serve Crypto Exchanges.  AI receives a lot of attention. The public outcry regarding AI taking human jobs has skyrocketed ever since the sensational chatbot ChatGPT was introduced by OpenAI. Unfounded concerns about…

The debate around the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is at an all-time high as the European Union passed the AI Regulation bill on Wednesday. For months, many prominent people like Elon Musk and Sam Altman as well as two of the three Godfathers of AI, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, have been protesting the unprecedented rise of AI and have called for government regulation in space raising concerns of a superintelligent AI causing the extinction of humanity. However, the third Godfather of AI, Yann LeCun,…

Photo: David Buchan (Getty Images)Disney and Marvel Studios’ Mahershala Ali-led Blade feature film has found a new director in Yann Demange, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Demange previously worked on the fan-favorite supernatural horror television darling Lovecraft Country for HBO and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.Additionally, joining the new team for Blade is Michael Starrbury (an Emmy nominee for Ava DuVernay’s Netflix series When They See Us); he’s on board to tackle the script for the highly anticipated…

Melanie Mitchell, an AI researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, is also excited to see a whole new approach. “We really haven’t seen this coming out of the deep-learning community so much,” she says. She also agrees with LeCun that large language models cannot be the whole story. “They lack memory and internal models of the world that are actually really important,” she says. Natasha Jaques, a researcher at Google Brain, thinks that language models should still play a role, however. It’s odd for language to be entirely…