OpenAI, the research organization behind the powerful language model GPT-4, has released a new study that examines the possibility of using AI to assist in creating biological threats. The study, which involved both biology experts and students, found that GPT-4 provides “at most a mild uplift” in biological threat creation accuracy, compared to the baseline of existing resources on the…
Dynatrace, a Massachusetts-based company that provides technology to monitor and optimize application performance, announced today that it will expand into the artificial intelligence space.
At its annual Perform conference, Dynatrace revealed plans to augment its core…
Shopify boosts its commerce platform with ‘Magic’ image editor and other AI enhancements
February 1, 2024
Shopify has just unveiled over 100 new updates to its commerce platform, with artificial intelligence emerging as a key theme. The company introduced new AI-powered capabilities aimed at helping merchants work smarter, sell more, and create better customer experiences.
The…
Exclusive: Metal unveils new AI assistant for financial services and private equity funds
January 31, 2024
Anyone with experience in or around finance would probably attest that a good chunk of the work is tedious, especially when evaluating the performance of companies over time and their future performance outlook. This holds true for professionals in financial services, where meticulous analysis of financial documents, market trends, and other relevant data is often time-consuming but essential for…
SAN FRANCISCO, January 29, 2024 — In January 2024, VentureBeat launched the AI Impact Tour, a series of intimate events in cities across the U.S., each focusing on distinct aspects of the current and upcoming AI revolution. VB Lab just announced a partnership with…
Atropos Health partners with Google Cloud to rapidly generate insights from healthcare data using AI
January 31, 2024
Atropos Health, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based healthcare startup, announced a new partnership with Google Cloud today. The collaboration allows Atropos to optimize its Generative Evidence Acceleration Operating System (GENEVA OS) to work with Google Cloud’s healthcare data…
AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’
January 30, 2024
Nightshade, a new, free downloadable tool created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago designed to be used by artists to disrupt AI models scraping and training on their artworks without consent, has received 250,000 downloads in the first five days of its release.
“Nightshade hit 250K downloads in 5 days since release,” wrote the leader of the project, Ben Zhao, a…
There have been many advances in vision-language models (VLM) that can match natural language queries to objects in a visual scene. And researchers are experimenting with how these models can be applied to robotics systems, which are still lagging in generalizing their…
How data engineers should prepare for an AI world
January 29, 2024
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about how the AI revolution will diminish the role of data engineers. I don’t believe that’s the case — in fact, data expertise will be more critical than ever. However, data professionals will need to acquire new skills to help…
After Davos 2024: From AI hype to reality
January 29, 2024
AI was a major theme at Davos 2024. As reported by Fortune, more than two dozen sessions at the event focused directly on AI, covering everything from AI in education to AI regulation.
A who’s who of AI was in attendance, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, AI pioneer Andrew Ng, Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and many others.
Whereas…
