AI & RoboticsNews

Global leaders scramble to regulate the future of AI

November 6, 2023
There is no doubt that the pace of AI development has accelerated over the last year. Due to rapid advances in technology, the idea that AI could one day be smarter than people has moved from science fiction to plausible near-term reality. Geoffrey Hinton, a Turing Award winner, concluded in May that the time when AI could be smarter than people was not 50 to 60 years as he had initially thought…
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Elon Musk unveils xAI’s first product Grok, an LLM offering realtime data, efficiency and ‘humor’

November 6, 2023
Following up on his proclamation last week that xAI would begin allowing selected users access to its first AI product, founder Elon Musk on Sunday morning revealed it to the world, and it is very much aligned with his sensibilities and often irreverent and immature sense of humor, while boasting access to realtime information and high efficiency. The product is a Large Language Model (LLM)…
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Here are the best electric bikes you can buy at every price level in November 2023

November 5, 2023
Here at Electrek we have spent countless hours undertaking detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through those thousands of miles of riding, we’ve gotten to know these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That dedication to real world e-bike testing has helped us find the best electric bicycles on the market for just about any budget. Below you’ll find…
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Do we have enough GPUs to manifest AI’s potential?

November 5, 2023
In 2023, few technologies have garnered as much attention, speculation and promise as AI. We are undoubtedly in the midst of an unprecedented AI hype cycle.  In some ways, the moment is akin to a modern-day gold rush as innovators, investors and entrepreneurs clamor to…
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Forget ChatGPT, why Llama and open source AI win 2023

November 5, 2023
Could a furry camelid take the 2023 crown for the biggest AI story of the year? If we’re talking about Llama, Meta’s large language model that took the AI research world by storm in February — followed by the commercial Llama 2 in July and Code Llama in August — I would argue that the answer is… (writer takes a moment to duck) yes.  I can almost see readers getting ready to pounce.
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