AI, Agents, and Skynet – Tuesday, October 22, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

  Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Most of the links today concern AI agents, autonomous processes acting in the background on your behalf, or so you think. The comparison to Skynet from the Terminator movies is pretty clear, though no one wants…

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AI in Vertical Industries – Monday, October 14, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses GenAI and Its Implications on the Legal Field | Vanderbilt University https://law.vanderbilt.edu/genai-and-its-implications-on-the-legal-field/ (Friday, October 11, 2024) “As developers continue to expand the capabilities of generative AI, lawyers have begun to question how GenAI could impact litigation in…

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AI – Saturday, October 12, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Introducing canvas: A new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/ (Thursday, October 3, 2024) “We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go…

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AI – Monday, October 7, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses NVLM: Open Frontier-Class Multimodal LLMs – NVIDIA ADLR https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/NVLM-1/ Authors: Wenliang Dai; Nayeon Lee; Boxin Wang; Zhuolin Yang; Zihan Liu; Jon Barker; Tuomas Rintamaki; Mohammad Shoeybi; Bryan Catanzaro; and Wei Ping (Tuesday, September 17, 2024) “We introduce…

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AI – Tuesday, October 1, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses CIOs turn to NIST to tackle generative AI’s many risks | CIO Dive https://www.ciodive.com/news/cio-generative-ai-risk-mitigation-strategy-NIST-framework/728257/ Author: Lindsey Wilkinson (Monday, September 30, 2024) “Discover’s risk reduction strategy closely follows the guidance laid out by the National Institute of Standards…

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AI – Saturday, September 28, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Microsoft Trustworthy AI: Unlocking human potential starts with trust https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/09/24/microsoft-trustworthy-ai-unlocking-human-potential-starts-with-trust/ Author: Takeshi Numoto (Tuesday, September 24, 2024) “As AI advances, we all have a role to play to unlock AI’s positive impact for organizations and communities around…

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AI – Thursday, September 26, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Verizon hasn’t forgotten about the old AI https://www.fierce-network.com/cloud/verizon-hasnt-forgotten-about-old-ai (Friday, September 20, 2024) “Verizon is leveraging a full spectrum of AI, including predictive AI, computer vision and generative AIPredictive AI and computer vision help Verizon optimize | Verizon…

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AI – Tuesday, September 24, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-audio-overviews/ Author: Biao Wang (Wednesday, September 11, 2024) “Today, we’re introducing Audio Overview, a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one…

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Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing – Sunday, September 22, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

General News, Articles, and Analyses How I test an AI chatbot’s coding ability – and you can, too | ZDNET https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-i-test-an-ai-chatbots-coding-ability-and-you-can-too/ Author: David Gewirtz (Friday, August 23, 2024) “This article provides detailed prompts and tests you can repeat on your favorite AI chatbot to see if it can help you program reliably.” Yi-Coder: The open-source…

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AI – Saturday, September 21, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses High-Level Explanations: Agentic AI Deep-Dive https://deepgram.com/learn/agentic-ai-explained Author: Tife Sanusi (Friday, September 13, 2024) “Agentic AI is the next step in AI’s evolution. The new technology is being actively sought after with organizations from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory,…

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AI – Wednesday, September 18, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-09/amazon-s-audible-to-create-ai-voice-replicas-of-select-audiobook-narrators Author: Ashley Carman (Monday, September 9, 2024) “Narrators who opt in will be able to construct their voice replicas for free. Afterward, they…

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AI – Friday, September 13, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Video game actors’ strike: 80 games adopt SAG-AFTRA AI terms, union says – Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-09-05/video-game-actors-strike-sag-aftra-ai-artificial-intelligence Author: Christi Carras (Friday, September 6, 2024) “SAG-AFTRA says 80 video games have agreed to abide by its proposed AI…

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AI – Thursday, September 5, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed: Avoiding the Anti-Patterns of AI | RAND https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html Authors: Ryseff, James; De Bruhl, Brandon; and Newberry, Sydne J. (Tuesday, August 13, 2024)…

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AI Chipsets – Wednesday, September 04, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI Chipsets. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. IBM Cloud to offer Intel’s Gaudi 3 AI chips next year | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/29/ibm-cloud-will-offer-intel-gaudi-3-chips-next-year/ Author: Kyle Wiggers (Thursday, August 29, 2024) “Intel has found its first — and perhaps only — cloud customer for its…

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Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing – Monday, September 02, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Software expertise powers up quantum computing – Physics World https://physicsworld.com/a/software-expertise-powers-up-quantum-computing/ (Wednesday, August 21, 2024) “Combining research excellence with a direct connection to the National Quantum Computing Centre, the Quantum…

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AI – Friday, August 30, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/26/anthropic-publishes-the-system-prompt-that-makes-claude-tick/ Author: Kyle Wiggers (Monday, August 26, 2024) “Anthropic has published the system prompts for Claude, its family of generative AI models. They instruct the…

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AI – Tuesday, August 27, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses What is ‘model collapse’? An expert explains the rumours about an impending AI doom https://theconversation.com/what-is-model-collapse-an-expert-explains-the-rumours-about-an-impending-ai-doom-236415 Author: Aaron J. Snoswell (Monday, August 19, 2024) “Generative AI needs tons of data to learn. It also generates new data. So,…

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Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing – Sunday, August 25, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing. General News, Articles, and Analyses The Walrus Operator: Python’s Assignment Expressions – Real Python https://realpython.com/python-walrus-operator/ Author: Geir Arne Hjelle (Wednesday, August 14, 2024) “In this tutorial, you’ll learn about assignment expressions and the walrus operator….

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AI – Friday, August 23, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/nea-led-a-100m-round-into-fei-fei-lis-new-ai-startup-now-valued-at-over-1b/ Author: Marina Temkin (Wednesday, August 14, 2024) “World Labs, a stealthy startup founded by renowned Stanford University AI professor…

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