March 22, 2024
This Week in AI: Human-Like Reasoning, Robots and Open Source
This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news, a new technique, “Quiet-STaR,” teaches AI to think and chat more like humans by considering various ideas before answering, improving how we interact...
March 21, 2024
Meet the Titans: Major Players Funding the Future of AI
Saudi Arabia aims to carve out a leadership role in the burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) field with a proposed $40 billion investment fund, as The New York Times reported. The...
March 14, 2024
Report: Softbank Considers Investing in Mistral AI
Japan’s SoftBank is reportedly weighing an investment in French artificial intelligence (AI) startup Mistral AI. The tech giant has shown interest in backing Mistral the next time it does fundraising, Bloomberg News reported...
November 20, 2023
What Does it Mean to be Good for Humanity? Don’t...
“Techno-optimist.” “E/acc.” For those following the recent OpenAI drama, you’ve probably seen these words. They adorn the X —formerly known as Twitter — bios of venture capitalists (VCs) and tech...
November 13, 2023
What Superintelligent Sentience (AGI) Means for the AI Ecosystem
Last century, space was widely considered to be the final frontier. Now, the boundaries of human consciousness and the limits of our intellectual capability are widely viewed to be the...
October 06, 2023
This Week in AI: Deepfakes, Devices and Data Developments
It is almost generative artificial intelligence’s first birthday. Next month, it will have been a full calendar year since OpenAI first launched its ChatGPT product and spurred the creation of...
October 04, 2023
Are Large Multimodal Models Gen AI’s New LLMs?
Six months ago, an open letter called to pause further generative artificial intelligence (AI) development. It was signed by tech luminaries including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak and was published...
October 02, 2023
Sam Altman’s Gen AI ‘iPhone’ Could Upend the AI Economy
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the innovative forces powering tomorrow’s tech wave. Just like prior phase shifts in technical capability throughout history, AI applications have the potential to...
September 27, 2023
Is a Gen AI-Powered Connected Device in the Cards?
A holistic user experience considers every aspect of a product. Think about Apple’s iPhone and computer products. By establishing them as hardware platforms running the company’s own proprietary iOS software,...