Google researchers are shaking up the AI world by teaching artificial intelligence to say “I don’t know.” This new approach, dubbed ASPIRE, could revolutionize how we interact with our digital helpers by encouraging them to express doubt when they’re unsure of an answer.
The innovation, showcased at the EMNLP 2023 conference, is all about instilling a sense of caution in AI responses.    
    
Anthropic hits back at music publishers in AI copyright lawsuit, accusing them of ‘volitional conduct’
January 19, 2024
Anthropic, a major generative AI startup, laid out its case why accusations of copyright infringement from a group of music publishers and content owners are invalid in a new court filing on Wednesday. 
In fall 2023, music publishers including Concord, Universal, and ABKCO…
AI video is still in its early days but the tech is advancing fast. Case in point, New York City-based Runway, a generative AI startup enabling individuals and enterprises to produce videos in different styles, today updated its Gen-2 foundation model with a new tool, Muti…
Toyota partnered with Ready Robotics to simulate and program industrial robotics using Nvidia’s Omniverse platform.
The “sim-to-real” robotic programming aims to advance industrial robotics, using both Ready Robotics’ Ready ForgeOS and Nvidia Isaac Sim on the Omniverse platform. Toyota will use the tech for its aluminum hot forging production lines.
The tech is the latest expression of…    
    
More ethical AI? Fairly Trained launches to certify gen AI tools trained on licensed data
January 18, 2024
It is in some ways the “original sin” of generative AI: many of the leading models from the likes of OpenAI and Meta have been trained on data scraped from the web without prior knowledge or express permission of those who posted it. 
AI companies who took this approach…
A new artificial intelligence system developed by Google DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI labs, can solve complex geometry problems at a level comparable to a human gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), a prestigious competition for…
DataStax is looking to make it easier for developers to build generative AI retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications with a new data API out today.
DataStax is one of the leading commercial vendors behind the open source Apache Cassandra database, which is the foundation of its AstraDB cloud database-as-a-service.  Like many other database vendors, DataStax has added vector database…    
    
Samsung has partnered with Google Cloud to integrate generative AI into Samsung Galaxy S24 Series smartphones.
The companies unveiled a multi-year partnership to bring advanced generative AI to Samsung smartphone users globally. The partnership kicks off with the launch of…
AI is moving at an astronomical pace: In a little more than a year, it has shifted the entire conversation not just in enterprise, but in everyday life. 
Things are accelerating so fast, in fact, that even those working in the field are taken aback. Many report being…
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup co-founded by two notable ex-Google engineers, announced today that it has raised $30 million in seed funding from high-profile technology investors. The young company, founded just last year, aims to take a different approach to AI by developing smaller, more efficient models inspired by nature. 
The seed round was led by Lux Capital…    
    
