Sam Altman and Jony Ive, former Apple design chief, have officially joined forces to develop an AI-powered personal device that won't resemble a smartphone. They are currently seeking funding of up to $1 billion.
Hugging Face’s popular and powerful inference server was briefly licensed under non-commercial to try and prevent larger businesses from hosting a competitive version. This didn't lead to improved business outcomes but did diminish community involvement. It has reverted to a more permissive license.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $2.4 billion investment package from Budget 2024 to reinforce Canada's AI sector. The package includes funding for computing capabilities, support for AI start-ups, and resources to ensure responsible AI adoption. These measures aim to accelerate job growth, enhance productivity, and maintain Canada's competitive edge in AI globally. The funds will also go towards creating a Canadian AI Safety Institute and strengthening enforcement of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act.
Prompt Auto-Editing (PAE) is a method developed by researchers to advance text-to-image generation using diffusion models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion. This innovative approach automates the refinement of text prompts by dynamically adjusting the weights and injection times of specific words, guided by online reinforcement learning.
Seg-NN is a framework that streamlines the process of 3D segmentation. By removing the need for extensive pre-training, these models quickly adapt to new, unseen classes without the typical domain gap issues.
This comprehensive survey explores the potential of Healthcare Foundation Models (HFMs) in transforming medical services. These models, which are pre-trained on diverse data, are well-suited to adapt to various healthcare tasks, potentially enhancing intelligent healthcare services across numerous scenarios.
Anthropic has launched a public beta allowing Claude AI to interact with custom client-side tools provided in API requests. Developers must use the 'anthropic-beta: tools-2024-04-04' header to access the feature. Claude's functionality can be extended with detailed JSON schemas for each tool.
An LLM agent operating system that embeds a large language model into Operating Systems as the brain of the OS, enabling an operating system "with soul".
Neural networks' limited ability to generalize beyond their training data restricts their reasoning and reliability, necessitating alternative approaches to achieve artificial general intelligence.
A Pew Research Center survey indicates ChatGPT usage among U.S. adults has increased from 18% to 23% since July 2023, with upticks in occupational, educational, and entertainment contexts. Young adults and those with higher education are more likely to use ChatGPT. Reflecting general wariness about AI and politics, 40% of Americans distrust election information from ChatGPT. Despite tech companies' efforts to combat AI-generated misinformation, only 2% of Americans have used ChatGPT to seek election-related facts.