Reflection, co-founded by ex-Google researchers, unveils Asimov, an AI agent that reads a company's codebase, docs, and more to help software engineering teams
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OpenAI releases o1, the first of its rumored reasoning-focused Strawberry models, in preview, alongside a smaller o1-mini, for ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers
Advancing cost-efficient reasoning. — Contributions Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI trained its new o1 AI models to think before they speak - how to access them Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing : Som...
Q&A with Nick Bostrom on his book Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, which considers a future in which AI solves all of humanity's problems
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DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis shares details on Gemini, a ChatGPT rival they are building that combines strengths of LLMs with AlphaGo-type systems
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Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staff and that raised $1.3B, including $300M from Google, details its “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots
How does a language model decide which questions it will engage with and which it deems inappropriate? Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI, Anthropic aim to quell concerns over how AI works Damir Yalalov / Met...
The Brookings Institution: from 2008 to 2021, Chinese companies accounted for 201 facial recognition tech export deals, followed by US companies with 128 deals
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @willknight Tweets: @wired : According to a study by academics at Harvard and MIT, China is the world leader in exporting face recognition. Experts fear what ...
A profile of Primer, whose AI tech helps the intelligence industry analyze thousands of public news sources and identify information war campaigns
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @martijnrasser , @barrydauber , @wired , @primer_ai , @lux_capital , @privacydigest , and @willknight Tweets: Martijn Rasser / @martijnrasser : Breakthroughs in processi...
Data from the US Census Bureau on 583,000 businesses in 2018 shows AI adoption is slow: 8.9% use AI in any form, 2.8% use ML, and 2.5% use voice recognition
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @nxthompson , @quinnypig , @erikbryn , and @paul_scharre Tweets: @nxthompson : It may seem like AI is all the rage. In fact, only around 9% of US companies use any kind ...
How manufacturers and e-commerce companies may invest in robots to help them adapt to social distancing, regular cleaning, and a possible worker shortage
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @anand1agarwal , @dan_rowinski , @billschrier , @darkjournalist , and @wired Tweets: Anand Agarwal / @anand1agarwal : Rethinking. Reframing. Re-evaluating. An interestin...
China's AI unicorns like Megvii, which thrived on government contracts for facial recognition, are now facing challenges amid US sanctions and cheaper tech
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @scottthurm , @ealmirall , @psb_dc , @willknight , and @privacyproject Tweets: Scott Thurm / @scottthurm : China has a half-dozen companies focused on AI with lofty valu...