Category Archives: Ai

AUSTIN, Texas In stride with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence systems and The University of Texas at Austins recently announced Year of AI initiative, the University is launching a bold new faculty recruitment program to help bring more of the worlds best and brightest AI professors to the Forty Acres. Aimed specifically at strengthening research capabilities, expertise and academic programs in AI and data analytics, the program will provide financial support from the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost for the addition of new tenured and tenure-track and professional-track faculty positions Continue reading →

AI systems, such as GPT-4, can now learn and use human language, but they learn from astronomical amounts of language inputmuch more than children receive when learning how to understand and speak a language. The best AI systems train on text with a word count in the trillions, whereas children receive just millions per year Continue reading →

With its first birthday right around the corner, Google's conversational AI tool Bard is getting another upgrade. Early reviews found Bard lagged behind competing chatbots in part because its responses were less human-like. Continue reading →

Hunter Moseley says that good reproducibility practices are essential to fully harness the potential of big data.Credit: Hunter N.B. Moseley We are in the middle of a data-driven science boom. Continue reading →

During Apples quarterly earnings call on Thursday afternoon, CEO Tim Cook mentioned that the company is working on generative AI software features that will make their way to customers later this year. That aligns with reporting from Bloombergs Mark Gurman, who said recently that iOS 18 could be the biggest update in the operating systems history Continue reading →

Stay tuned: 2024 will be the year Apple finally reveals what it has up its sleeve regarding generative AI. On the company's quarterly earnings call Thursday afternoon, CEO Tim Cook cited "a huge opportunity for Apple with gen AI and AI." In the call, Cook said Apple "has some things that we're incredibly excited about that we'll be talking about later this year." He was otherwise tight-lipped, beyond citing how AI powers the Apple Vision Pro headset, which went on sale Friday and which CNET reviewer Scott Stein calls "Apple's wildest and strangest device." Cook argued that Apple can justify the Vision Pro's $3,499 price point due to the 5,000 patents it holds, alongside "many innovations that Apple has spent multiple years on, from silicon to displays, and in significant AI and machine learningall of the hand tracking, the room mappingall of this stuff is driven by AI." We should point out that AI is a broad field of technology, with applications in everything from sorting through photos for familiar faces to assisting you as you type out texts. Continue reading →

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Google is bringing generative AI to where else? Google Maps, promising to help users find cool places through the use of large language models (LLM). The feature will answer queries for restaurant or shopping recommendations, for example, using its LLM to analyze Maps detailed information about more than 250 million places and trusted insights from our community of over 300 million contributors to quickly make suggestions for where to go Continue reading →

In wargame simulations, AI chatbots often choose violence guirong hao/Getty Images In multiple replays of a wargame simulation, OpenAIs most powerful artificial intelligence chose to launch nuclear attacks. Continue reading →

It's now been over a year since the launch of freaky AI chatbot ChatGPT and image generator Midjourney - and it's fair to say the world hasn't been the same since. One thing AI is very good at is making people's blood boil by throwing popular stereotypes right back at us Continue reading →