AI & Robotics

A New York Times article this morning, titled “How to Tell if Your AI Is Conscious,” says that in a new report, “scientists offer a list of measurable qualities” based on a “brand-new” science of consciousness.  The article immediately jumped out at me, as it was published just a few days after I had a long chat with Thomas Krendl Gilbert, a machine ethicist who, among other things…

In recent months, the enterprise software market has been utterly flooded with new generative AI-related updates, tools, and startups. For vendors hawking new wares, standing out from the crowd is tricky. But one such vendor hopes to do so by tackling a very specific problem: time management. This week, the three-year-old Los Angeles-founded startup timeOS (formerly called Magical HQ) unveiled its…

When people program new deep learning AI models — those that can focus on the right features of data by themselves — the vast majority rely on optimization algorithms, or optimizers, to ensure the models have a high enough rate of accuracy. But one of the most commonly used optimizers — derivative-based optimizers— run into trouble handling real-world applications. In a new paper…

AI unicorn startup Anthropic, known for taking on OpenAI’s ChatGPT with its Claude 2 large language model (LLM) assistant, is moving to take its offerings to more enterprises.  Today, the Dario Amodei-led company announced it has partnered with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to provide its clients with “direct access” to Claude 2 and Anthropic’s AI tech. The engagement will see BCG…