The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”
- Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for “foundational discoveries” in machine learning
had not seen them in any of the sweepstakes ahead of the announcement. But if everything is either physics or stamp collecting we just promoted machine learning to “physics”. (Love...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for “foundational discoveries” in machine learning
- John J. Hopfield, Geoffrey E. Hinton worked on neural networks — Their work laid foundations for machine learning and AI
Screenshots of Google's AI Overview giving bizarre answers go viral, including telling users to add “1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to make cheese stick to a pizza
- Google's AI Overviews feature suggested a user put glue on pizza so the cheese would stay put.
Anthropic researchers: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the deceptive behaviors
[images] Abraham Samma / @abesamma@toolsforthought.social : Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training — This is some sci-fi stuff right here (e...
Anthropic researchers: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the deceptive behaviors
Most humans learn the skill of deceiving other humans. So can AI models learn the same? Yes, the answer seems — and terrifyingly, they're exceptionally good at it.
OpenAI quietly removed a ban on “military and warfare” use from its usage policy, as part of a major rewrite to make the policy “clearer” and “more readable”
OpenAI this week quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology …
Some Cruise riders say they've had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol
Some Cruise riders say they've had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol
An Illustration generated by the artificial intelligence program Midjourney depicts two people making out in an autonomous vehicle.
OpenAI forms Superalignment, a team for developing ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems, with access to 20% of its compute secured to date
OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company's co-founders …
A look at the recent debates in the AI industry over existential risks, as what were once considered extreme views have now become mainstream talking points
“Ghost stories are contagious.” — Who's afraid of the big bad bots? A lot of people, it seems.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say the world will likely need a regulatory body for superintelligence
Now is a good time to start thinking about the governance … Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : Please, World, Please, Regulate AI. Oh, Come Now, You Silly Goose Hasan Chowdhury / ...
OpenAI releases alignment research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to interpret the behavior of individual GPT-2 “neurons and attention heads”
look, we can explain some neurons in GPT-2! That's so cool! Another way to read it: we can explain 0.3% of neurons in GPT-2, which is 0.00017% the size of GPT-4. So we *really* don...
Microsoft is exploring new ad experiences in Bing Chat, like citations, and sharing ad revenue with “partners whose content contributed to the chat response”
and it's likely a good thing. Here's why Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : Microsoft is ‘Exploring’ Ads within Bing Chat Mashable : Oh great, Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot is get...
Microsoft is exploring expanding ads in Bing Chat and sharing the ad revenue with partners whose content contributed to the chat response
It was inevitable, but Microsoft has confirmed that more ads are coming to Bing's AI-powered chatbot. Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi …
PyTorch identifies a malicious dependency using its “torchtriton” library name, warning nightly version users to uninstall; the hacker claims ethical research
PyTorch identifies a malicious dependency that uses its “torchtriton” library name, warning users to uninstall the framework; the hacker claims ethical research
PyTorch has identified a malicious dependency with the same name as the framework's ‘torchtriton’ library.
OpenAI open sources Point-E, a machine learning system that generates and displays a 3D object from a text prompt in one to two minutes on an Nvidia V100 GPU
Amazon stops working on Scout, its autonomous, cooler-sized home delivery robot in testing since 2019; source: ~400 people were working on the project globally
Amazon.com Inc. is shutting down tests of its home delivery robot, the latest sign that the e-commerce giant is starting to wind …
Google unveils two text-to-video AI generators: Imagen Video, a higher image quality system, and Phenaki, which prioritizes coherency and length over quality
Not to be outdone by Meta's Make-A-Video, Google today detailed its work on Imagen Video, an AI system that can generate video clips given …