Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Amazon launches Bedrock Studio in public preview, a web tool to help orgs experiment with and collaborate on generative AI models and then build AI-powered apps — Amazon is launching a new tool, Bedrock Studio, designed to let organizations experiment with generative AI models … …
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In the past month, we saw a blizzard of new language models. It’s almost hard to consider this news, though Microsoft’s open (but maybe not open source) Phi-3 is certainly worth a look. We’ve also seen promising work on reducing the resources required to do inference. While this may lead to larger models, it should also lead to reduced power use for small and mid-sized models. AI Microsoft’s Phi-3-mini is yet another freely available language model. It is small enough to …
Barkha Dutt / Rest of World: During India’s general election, some Indian politicians and parties are using deepfake videos and audios of popular, deceased politicians in their campaigns — Digital rights activists have questioned the ethics of using “soft fakes” to resurrect the past and manage the future. …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Jack Dorsey replies “no” to an X user who asked if he was still on the Bluesky board; it’s not clear when he left, as Bluesky’s FAQ still lists him as a member — It sounds like Bluesky’s most prominent backer is no longer on its board. — On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X … …
Tara Copp / Associated Press: US Air Force plans a fleet of 1,000+ AI-controlled jets, the first of them operating by 2028; some AI versions already beat human pilots in air-to-air combat — (AP Video by Eugene Garcia and Mike Pesoli) — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched … …
Reuters: Sources: Fei-Fei Li raised a seed round for a “spatial intelligence” startup using human-like visual data processing to create AI capable of advanced reasoning — Prominent computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is building a startup that uses human-like processing of visual data … …
Senator Scott Wiener / @scott_wiener: [Thread] California state Sen. Scott Wiener defends his AI safety bill SB 1047, after criticism that it will “crush OpenAI’s competitors” and open-source AI — AI policy is a new & fast-moving field & it’s healthy & important to have a diversity of perspectives. However, this thread contains some extreme inaccuracies — indeed outright fear-mongering — about our AI safety legislation (SB 1047) that need to be corrected: 🧵 …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Atlassian debuts Rovo, an AI product giving businesses contextual search, insights, and the ability to add custom agents to handle tasks and “complete projects” — During its Team ’24 conference in Las Vegas, Atlassian today launched Rovo, its new AI assistant. …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News: SCOTUS declines to block a Texas online porn restriction law, after critics said an age-verification mandate violates 1A by forcing viewers to submit their info — The pornography industry challenged the state law’s age-verification provision, saying it places an unlawful burden on adults wishing to access content. …
By Rufus Rock, UCL; Tim O’Reilly, UCL; Ilan Strauss, UCL; and Mariana Mazzucato, UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, the consensus switched to …
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