According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is testing its Med-PaLM 2 AI chat technology at the Mayo Clinic and other hospitals. It’s based on the company’s PaLM 2 large language model (LLM) that underpins Bard, Google’s ChatGPT rival. Unlike the base model, Med-PaLM-2 has been trained on questions and Read more…
“According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 73% of businesses reported that their workers rarely or never engaged in remote work in 2022 — closing in on pre-pandemic levels,” writes a Seattle Times business columnist. “But this minority of the civilian workforce working remotely casts a large shadow Read more…
We’ve just had the world’s first press conference with AI-enabled, humanoid social robots. Click here to jump straight to Slashdot’s transcript of all the robots’ answers during the press conference, or watch the 40-minute video here. It all happened at the United Nations held an “AI for Good” summit in Read more…
The world’s largest spherical structure “squats on the Las Vegas skyline like an enormous spaceship, black and mysterious,” reports CNN, “until night falls, when it will glow like the Earth from space.” The $2 billion arena — called “The Sphere” — was built just east of the Venetian hotel/casino. It’s Read more…
Scientists have designed an AI tool that can rapidly decode a brain tumor’s DNA to determine its molecular identity during surgery — critical information that under the current approach can take a few days and up to a few weeks. Knowing a tumor’s molecular type enables neurosurgeons to make decisions Read more…
Inflection AI, an AI startup company, has built a cutting-edge supercomputer equipped with 22,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. For those unfamiliar with Inflection AI, it is a business that aims at creating “personal AI for everyone.” The company is widely known for its recently introduced Inflection-1 AI model, which powers the Read more…
After months of painful job cuts, companies in San Francisco’s tech sector stepped up hiring in May, spurred in part by an artificial intelligence boom, according to a new report. San Francisco and neighboring San Mateo County added 2,800 jobs in the tech sector in May, according to the city’s Read more…