In 2016, Meta (then but a simple country Facebook) launched its open-source AI research library, the Pytorch framework. Six years and 150,000 projects from 2,400 contributors later, Meta announced on Monday that the Pytorch project will soon spin out from the company’s direct control to become its own entity, the Pytorch Foundation, a subsidiary within the larger Linux Foundation nonprofit…
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An image produced from scratch by a video game designer using an AI tool recently won an art competition at the Colorado State Fair, as has been widely…
EU AI Act’s possible open-source regulation sparks Twitter debate
September 10, 2022
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Alex Engler, research fellow at the Brookings Institution, never expected his recent article, “The EU’s attempt to regulate open source AI is…
Deep Dive: How AI content generators work
September 9, 2022
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been steadily influencing business processes, automating repetitive and mundane tasks even for complex industries like construction and medicine.
While AI applications often work beneath the surface, AI-based content generators are front and…
What Nvidia’s new MLPerf AI benchmark results really mean
September 9, 2022
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Nvidia released results today against new MLPerf industry-standard artificial intelligence (AI) benchmarks for its AI-targeted processors. While the…
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Spectrum Labs has created natural language AI that can parse online text for toxic…
Boston Dynamics says AI advances for Spot the robo-dog are coming
September 9, 2022
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Since Boston Dynamics made its bright yellow robot, Spot, available to the general public to purchase in June 2020, the famously agile robo-dog has gone from cute-yet-creepy quadruped to must-have-helper on the factory floor and in industrial facilities.
Now…
AI-native tech startups can weather an economic nuclear winter
September 9, 2022
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Recently, I wrote a piece for VentureBeat distinguishing between companies that are AI-based at their very core and ones that simply use AI as a…
Nvidia AI chip export ban expected to impact U.S., China AI race
September 8, 2022
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Last week was filled with reports that U.S. government officials have ordered Nvidia to stop exporting its A100 and H100 GPUs to China, a signal of…
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Among the fastest growing verticals in the smart home space is the smart appliance market. However, much of this growth hinges on adding voice control technology. Voice-controlled artificial intelligence assistants — where the consumer uses their voice to direct, control or…
