Category Archives: Artificial General Intelligence

A friendlier HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. By Thomas Gaulkin / Cryteria (CC-BY) In a 2012 essay for Aeon, physicist David Deutsch wrote of artificial intelligence: I cannot think of any other significant field of knowledge where the prevailing wisdom, not only in society at large but among experts, is so beset with entrenched, overlapping, fundamental errors. Yet it has also been one of the most self-confident fields in prophesying that it will soon achieve the ultimate breakthrough Continue reading →

Elon Musks artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI is reportedly close to raising $6 billion from investors. The funding round would value xAI at $18 billion, Bloomberg reported Friday (April 26). Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) firm Sequoia Capital has committed to investing in the startup, according to the Financial Times (FT), which reported the same figures as Bloomberg Continue reading →

From controlling home environments with commands like Siri, turn on the living room lights to managing fraud and risk in financial institutions, artificial intelligence is integral to many products and services we use daily. And the news cycle reminds us frequently that this is just the beginning that the full promise and peril of AI still lies before us. This is not just technology that will allow us to do the same things in a new way; it has the potential to make us extra human smarter, faster versions of ourselves. Continue reading →

What is generative AI in simple terms? Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence technology that broadly describes machine learning systems capable of generating text, images, code or other types of content, often in response to a prompt entered by a user. Generative AI models are increasingly being incorporated into online tools and chatbots that allow users to type questions or instructions into an input field, upon which the AI model will generate a human-like response Continue reading →

Joanna Andreasson/DALL-E4 I'm an AI developer and consultant, and when OpenAI released a preview in February of its text-to-video model Soraan AI capable of generating cinema-quality videosI started getting urgent requests from the entertainment industry and from investment firms. You could divide the calls into two groups. Group A was concerned about how quickly AI was going to disrupt a current business model Continue reading →

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Imagine an AI that doesn't just answer questions like ChatGPT, but can make your morning coffee, do the dishes and care for your elderly parent while you're at work. Continue reading →

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. From smart assistants to self-driving cars, AI systems are transforming our lives and businesses. But what if there was an AI that could do more than perform specific tasks Continue reading →

Last Thursday, OpenAI released a demo of its new text-to-video model Sora, that can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the users prompt. Perhaps youve seen one, two or 20 examples of the video clips OpenAI provided, from the litter of golden retriever puppies popping their heads out of the snow to the couple walking through the bustling Tokyo street. Maybe your reaction was wonder and awe, or anger and disgust, or worry and concern depending on your view of generative AI overall Continue reading →

Whoa. Training Day A new Amazon AI model, according to the researchers who built it, is exhibiting language abilities that it wasn't trained on. In a not-yet-peer-reviewed academic paper, the team at Amazon AGI which stands for "artificial general intelligence," or human-level AI say their large language model (LLM) is exhibiting "state-of-the-art naturalness" at conversational text Continue reading →