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AI Safety Showdown: LeCun Criticizes SB 1047, Hinton Supports Regs

September 12, 2024
Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, publicly rebuked supporters of California’s contentious AI safety bill, SB 1047, on Wednesday. His criticism came just one day after Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as the “godfather of AI,” endorsed the legislation. This stark disagreement between two pioneers in artificial intelligence highlights the deep divisions within the AI community over the…
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Agentic AI: A deep dive into the future of automation

September 11, 2024
Beyond generative AI The most transformative promise of AI has always been its potential for autonomy, to create systems that can act intelligently on their own without human supervision. However, this kind of “Agentic AI” has remained out of reach for most enterprise…
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Edge chip maker SiMa.ai launches Modalix to bring multimodal gen AI everywhere

September 11, 2024
Edge computer chip and software startup SiMa.ai, fresh off a $70 million funding round from industry heavyweights including Dell Technologies Capital, is expanding its foothold in the edge AI market with the release of a new, smaller, lower power chip: MLSoC Modalix. At 6 nanometers, it comes in way smaller than the San Jose, California-based startup’s prior MLSoC chip of 16 nanometers. Building…
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AI Tools: Crafting harmony or creating dependency?

September 10, 2024
As AI tools become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we face a critical question: Are we harnessing their power to enhance our abilities, or are we slowly outsourcing our minds — or both? As an early adopter of generative AI tools like DALL-E, ChatGPT, Claude and others, I have experienced firsthand how these technologies can boost productivity and creativity. I have used AI to build…
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Sakana AI scores $100M to challenge OpenAI, Anthropic as ‘world class’ AI lab

September 9, 2024
The AI frenzy is taking over the world. Mere days after China’s Alibaba made headlines with Qwen2-VL, Sakana AI, the Japanese startup founded by former Google researchers David Ha and Llion Jones and former diplomat Ren Ito, has announced it has raised $100 million in a series A round of funding. The investment has been led by several industry heavyweights, including New Enterprise Associates…
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