Researchers at DeepMind have … released a new technical paper (PDF) that explains how to develop AGI safely, which you can download at your convenience. It contains a huge amount of detail, clocking in at 108 pages before references. While some in the AI field believe AGI is a pipe Read more…
Commentary, video, and a publication in this week’s Nature Neuroscience herald a significant advance in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, enabling speech by decoding electrical activity in the brain’s sensorimotor cortex in real-time. Researchers from UC Berkeley and UCSF employed deep learning recurrent neural network transducer models to decode neural signals Read more…
Microsoft has closed its IoT & AI Insider Lab in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang hi-tech zone, marking the latest sign of the US tech giant’s retreat from China amid rising geopolitical tensions. The Shanghai lab, meant to help with domestic development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, Read more…
After sitting below 4% for more than two years, the overall unemployment rate has topped that threshold since May… “We’re seeing a meaningful transition in the way work is done in the white-collar world, I tell people a wave is coming….” Thousands of video game workers lost jobs last year Read more…
The U.S. and China are racing to build a truly useful humanoid worker. Whoever wins could gain a huge edge in countless industries. “The time has come for robots,” Nvidia’s chief executive said at a conference in March, adding “This could very well be the largest industry of all.” China’s Read more…
According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to “rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months.” This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for all American workers and payments for all Social Security recipients. Read more…
The first clinical trial of a therapy bot that uses generative AI suggests it was as effective as human therapy for participants with depression, anxiety, or risk for developing eating disorders. Even so, it doesn’t give a go-ahead to the dozens of companies hyping such technologies while operating in a Read more…