The Pentagon's Rush to Deploy AI-Enabled Weapons Is Going to Kill Us All
OpenAI's leadership dispute reflects a battle between those in favor of unrestricted AI research and those concerned about the potential dangers of AI development.
Similar debates over AI are happening in government offices and the United Nations regarding the development of autonomous weapons systems. [ more ]
Who is OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, and what does he think about the future of AI and ChatGPT?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired from his position, and Ilya Sutskever, the company's chief scientist and co-founder, is taking on a more prominent role.
The departures of Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman were reportedly due to a breakdown in communication with the board, not related to malfeasance or financial issues.
Sutskever has a background in AI research and has worked with influential figures like Geoffrey Hinton and Andrew Ng. [ more ]
Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful and sustainable supercomputer, is now up and running
The UK's Isambard-AI supercomputer, one of the fastest globally, will drive AI research, including in language models, healthcare, robotics, automated drug discovery, and climate research. [ more ]
AI in space: Karpathy suggests AI chatbots as interstellar messengers to alien civilizations
Large language models (LLMs) could potentially be modified to operate in space for communication with extraterrestrial life, a lighthearted proposal by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. [ more ]
China tops the U.S. on AI research in over half of the hottest fields: report
CSET's research found global AI research doubled from 2017-2022, with computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics leading the way. [ more ]
Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research
Fei-Fei Li urges President Biden to fund a national AI research repository to bridge the resource gap
Scholars face challenges obtaining expensive computing power and data needed for AI research due to high costs and partnership reliance with tech firms. [ more ]
Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Artificial general intelligence and higher education
AGI development is progressing rapidly with organizations like OpenAI, Magic AI, and Google working on advanced models.
Researchers anticipate AGI systems to have abilities such as abstract thinking, background knowledge, common sense, cause and effect, and transfer learning. [ more ]
Scoop: N.Y. governor wants to criminalize deceptive AI
California and New York are using legislation and executive action to incentivize AI research while implementing regulations to address AI harms.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has proposed new laws to criminalize the dissemination of fabricated media, unauthorized use of someone's voice in advertising, misuse of AI, and digitally manipulated false images. [ more ]
AI2's new open-source LLM may reset the definition of open AI'
AI2 has released a new large language model (OLMo 7B) and made all software components and training data available on GitHub and Hugging Face.
The goal is to give the AI research community full visibility into the model, enabling them to advance natural language processing and improve existing models.
This move aims to address the challenge of attributing specific outputs by an LLM to training data, allowing researchers to understand and evaluate model behavior. [ more ]
The U.S. Just Took a Crucial Step Toward Democratizing AI Access
The National Science Foundation is launching a pilot program called NAIRR to provide AI researchers with access to expensive infrastructure and resources.
Companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are contributing resources to the pilot program. [ more ]
AI Research Pilot Launched by NSF with USPTO as Partner
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is launching the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot as directed by President Biden's Executive Order on AI in October 2023.
The pilot will provide access to advanced computing, datasets, models, software, training, and user support to U.S.-based researchers and educators. [ more ]
US project aims to help academia build next-gen AI models
The US National Science Foundation has launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) to help academics access computing power, data, and tools for AI research.
More than 20 companies and organizations, including Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Amazon, have pledged to share their resources with researchers accepted into the program. [ more ]
Feds kick off National AI Research Resource with pilot program live today | TechCrunch
The National AI Research Resource (NAIRR), a coalition of U.S. agencies and private partners, is launching to provide public-access tools for AI scientists and engineers.
The initiative aims to democratize AI technology and make resources available to qualified researchers, in an effort to keep the U.S. competitive with other countries in the AI space. [ more ]
AI upends long held belief that all fingerprints are unique
Fingerprint ridges on different fingers of the same person can have the same angles and curvature at the center.
A deep contrastive network was used to study commonalities in fingerprints and achieved an accuracy of 77% in identifying if prints were from the same person. [ more ]
AI researcher Melanie Mitchell discovered an AI-generated imitation of her book on Amazon, highlighting the problem of low-quality AI-generated ebooks on the platform.
Deepfake-detection software confirmed that the knock-off version of Mitchell's book was 99% likely AI-generated, angering Mitchell and raising concerns about unsuspecting customers buying these books. [ more ]
A 'State-Of-The Art' AI Computing Center Will Be Created In Upstate New York
New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the creation of Empire AI, a state-of-the-art computing center to support AI research and development.
The consortium aims to bridge the gap between large tech companies and individual researchers, public interest organizations, and small companies in accessing expensive computing resources for AI systems. [ more ]
Top researchers quantify chances of AI causing human extinction
Five percent of AI experts believe AI will lead to collapse, while 10 percent believe there's a 25 percent chance it will destroy the human race.
Possible causes cited by experts include AI enabling threatening groups, authoritarian rulers using AI for control, and AI worsening economic inequality. [ more ]
Big Tech is spending more than VC firms on AI startups
Big tech companies have vastly outspent venture capital groups with investments in generative AI startups this year, as established giants use their financial muscle to dominate the much-hyped sector.
Inside DARPA's search for an "autonomous scientist" to support its researchers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking AI research concepts from industry for the development of an "autonomous scientist".
The goal is to create a tool that can automate the process of scientific discovery and help human researchers develop new working theories.
DARPA's autonomous scientist should be able to generate unique scientific hypotheses, consider scalability and cost-reduction opportunities, and provide skeptical reasoning. [ more ]
OpenAI trying to poach Google workers with $10M pay packages, report says
OpenAI is aggressively recruiting senior researchers from Google's AI teams with the promise of annual pay ranging from $5 million to $10 million, mostly in stock.
OpenAI is planning to sell shares of its existing employees, which could value the company at $80 billion to $90 billion.
OpenAI primarily makes its money through subscriptions to ChatGPT Plus and by selling use of its AI models to developers and businesses. [ more ]
BLASTNet - The First Large Machine Learning Dataset for Fundamental Fluid Dynamics
AI researchers at Stanford are collecting data from computational fluid dynamics to create a dataset for rocket science, oceanography, and climate modeling.
They hope to use this dataset to advance these scientific fields in the same way web-scale data advanced language processing.
This project demonstrates the potential of AI and data collection to revolutionize scientific research. [ more ]