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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman foresees ‘breathtaking’ scientific discoveries, muses on geoengineering

October 10, 2023
OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman wasn’t a well known figure outside of the tech sector until recently, but following his company’s rapid ascent to the top of the competitive generative AI landscape propelled by its hit product ChatGPT, and his own “world tour” visiting politicians in different countries, he is becoming an increasingly important and influential voice on the global…
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DeepMind’s ‘remarkable’ new AI controls robots of all kinds 

October 7, 2023
One of the big challenges of robotics is the amount of effort that has to be put into training machine learning models for each robot, task, and environment. Now, a new project by Google DeepMind and 33 other research institutions aims to address this challenge by creating a general-purpose AI system that can work with different types of physical robots and perform many tasks. “What we have…
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Docker dives into AI to help developers build GenAI apps

October 7, 2023
Underneath just about every generative AI application for training or inference today you’ll likely find Docker containers as the primary approach to deployment. Today at the Dockercon conference in Los Angeles, Docker Inc., the eponymous company behind the open source…
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IBM propels PyTorch beyond model training into AI inference

October 6, 2023
The open source PyTorch machine learning (ML) framework is widely used today for AI training, but that’s not all it can do. IBM sees broader applicability for PyTorch and is working on a series of development initiatives that will see PyTorch used for inferencing. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Raghu Ganti, principal research staff member at IBM detailed new research efforts that…
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AI is driving more phone scams | Hiya

October 6, 2023
AI is driving more phone scams and the average mobile phone user is now getting 14 spam calls a month, according to a report by Hiya, a provider of voice security solutions. Hiya unveiled the findings of its latest study on phone fraud and spam. The research highlighted a distressing trend, with a quarter of unknown phone calls analyzed by Hiya being classified as unwanted. I feel like I get 14…
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