Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO's exit More like Instability AI, right kids? AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 8
Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy Interview Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders AI + ML14 Apr 2024 | 60
Arm flexes silicon muscles to push generative AI at the edge Ethos-U85 microNPU boasts 4x performance boost over previous gen Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Developers are calling the shots on AI planning, judging by your experience Reader Poll Results And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 10
CNCF boss talks 'irrational exuberance' in an AI-heavy Kubecon keynote Updated Kubecon? More like Queuecon as Paris show's registration system experiences temporary borkage Software22 Mar 2024 | 11
New York Times: OpenAI’s claim we 'hacked' its products both 'irrelevant' and 'false' Media giant's counterfiling accuses AI darling of 'spin' in copyright infringement case AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 3
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11
Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 75
Meta seeks ASIC designers for ML accelerators and datacenter SoCs Appears to be struggling to find them, even in India, as it's re-posted job ads On-Prem23 Feb 2024 | 14
Quilter's AI design service nabs $10M to make circuit board design easier Claims what took weeks to do by hand, machine learning can do in hours AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 2
IBM Japan and NTT think they can make datacenter aircon adjust to different workloads They're measuring server exhaust temperatures to detect power consumption AI + ML07 Feb 2024 | 17
Robots with a 'Berliner Schnauze' may appear more trustworthy to locals Dialect study a mixed bag when it comes to droids speaking highbrow German Bootnotes31 Jan 2024 | 22
What is Model Collapse and how to avoid it Feature We chat to AI expert Ilia Shumailov about the pitfalls of using machines to train machines Software26 Jan 2024 | 16
DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry So this is the AI revolution Bootnotes23 Jan 2024 | 48
Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2024 | 7
Daughter of George Carlin horrified someone cloned her dad with AI for hour special Seven words you can't say – This won't backfire and ruin art forever AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 38
EU lassos tech giants in bid to rein in the AI Wild West Analysis Interpretation, debate, and judges set to decide how the rubber hits the road AI + ML03 Jan 2024 | 3
Danish techies claim they can predict your next move (and your last) Life's a vector, then you die Science20 Dec 2023 | 29
Mere minority of orgs put GenAI in production after year of hype Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 14
Exposed Hugging Face API tokens offered full access to Meta's Llama 2 Updated With more than 1,500 tokens exposed, research highlights importance of securing supply chains in AI and ML Research04 Dec 2023 | 6
AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI Re:Invent Also hedging its bets with a healthy dose of Nvidia chips too Systems28 Nov 2023 | 2
Fake views for the win: Text-to-image models learn more efficiently with made-up data Future neural nets will probably use a mix of AI-generated and real info AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1
FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse Sir, this is a Wendy's AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 22
UK MoD braves the weather to train maritime AI capabilities We will scan them on the beaches AI + ML02 Nov 2023 | 18
AI luminaries call for urgent regulation to head off future threats, but Meta's brainbox boss disagrees Suggest developers spend 'at least one-third of their R&D budget' on safety AI + ML24 Oct 2023 | 18
SEC boss warns it's 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause financial crash AI In Brief Plus Meta gets physical, moves bots in the house... AI + ML23 Oct 2023 | 28
OpenAI warns folks over GPT-4 Vision's limits and flaws AI In Brief Plus: Mistral emits uncensored model, Meta expands Llama 2's context window, Alexa drills into your voice AI + ML02 Oct 2023 | 5
Getty delivers text-to-image service it says won't get you sued, may get you paid Trained on its own image library that's clear of copyright complications AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 16
Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI Big Brother wants to watch your big data AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 7
Nvidia just made a killing on AI – where is everyone else? Comment It doesn't matter if your GPU is better at training if no one can get hold of them AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 10
Hope for nerds! ChatGPT's still a below-average math student Detection algorithms also fail to distinguish between answers from real people and large language models AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 31
Meta lets Code Llama run riot under almost-open terms Was this source-generating model used to bang out Threads in a week or something? AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 4
Big Tech pumps $235M into AI model depot Hugging Face Upstart now valued at $4B after Salesforce, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and pals dish out dosh AI + ML24 Aug 2023 |
Judge snuffs man's quest to have AI-created art protected by copyright 'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' lost AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 20
Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI Tired? Drink coffee, says Starbucks. Bored? Try whiskey, says Jameson. Lazy? Why not drive, says Ford. Etc etc AI + ML16 Aug 2023 | 13
So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords Offbeat15 Aug 2023 | 78
DARPA tells AI world: Make a model that secures software, there's $25M in it for you Black Hat If you're so smart, prove it by safeguarding our infrastructure Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 8
Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI We hope the World Peace Day statement was not written by ChatGPT Offbeat09 Aug 2023 | 56
TV and film extras fear generative AI will copy their faces and bodies to take their jobs AI in brief Plus: Apple has spent $22.1B on research for generative AI, and Kickstarter introduces new AI policies AI + ML07 Aug 2023 | 17
Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers, maybe AI + ML02 Aug 2023 | 43
MIT bods offer PhotoGuard gadget to thwart AI deepfakes Open source image-massage works … up to a point AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 6
AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian Analysis If you need to trick a computer into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 21
Dell pumps out reference designs, plumps services, to bring AI on-prem Go ahead, spend up big. But be warned: many models 'will never make it to widespread use because they are quite frankly rubbish' AI + ML01 Aug 2023 |
Friendly AI chatbots will be designing bioweapons for criminals 'within years' Watch out, mad scientists – your careers are over AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 20
Intel: Here, have some AI reference kits ... now please buy our silicon With 34 designs to pick from, you can choose your own ML adventure AI + ML25 Jul 2023 | 4
Google fails to get AI engineer lawsuit claiming wrongful termination thrown out AI in brief Plus: Apple is building its own large language models internally, and AI South Park is terrible AI + ML24 Jul 2023 | 18
Fear not, White House chatted to OpenAI and pals, and they promised to make AI safe Nice one, Joe, get those non-binding voluntary pledges in early AI + ML21 Jul 2023 | 10
Tesla's Dojo supercomputer is a billion-dollar bet to make AI better at driving than humans More data means better neural net training, but it also means more cores HPC21 Jul 2023 | 43
Judge lets art trio take another crack at suing AI devs over copyright Just the facts, ma'am. More facts, in fact AI + ML21 Jul 2023 | 53
IBM sets Watson chips on the AI case as price war kicks off Amazon, Microsoft and VMware make their moves in the game of machines AI + ML13 Jul 2023 | 2
Make sure that off-the-shelf AI model is legit – it could be a poisoned dependency Updated Another kind of supply chain attack that can quietly mess up bots and apps AI + ML11 Jul 2023 | 11
Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT AI in brief Plus: Adobe is limiting how staff can use external generative AI tools, and the Pentagon is testing different large language models AI + ML10 Jul 2023 | 82
Important note: Humans can use AI to make music and still bag a Grammy Organizers change rules as generative ML takes over everything AI + ML05 Jul 2023 | 17
No, GPT-4 cannot get a computer science degree at MIT AI in brief Also: OpenAI to open a new office in London, and why the FTC has its eye on the generative AI market AI + ML03 Jul 2023 | 8
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key Sysadmin Month28 Jun 2023 | 44
EU launches 4 testbeds to put AI tech through its paces before it goes to market The labs will look at AI and robotics for manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and cities AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 5
You may have heard about AI defeating voice authentication. This research kinda proves it Proof-of-concept study shows it's possible to bypass high levels of security, sometimes, sorta AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 15
US export ban drives prices of Nvidia's latest GPUs sky high in China AI in brief Plus: IBM builds AI commentator for Wimbledon; US regulator dithers on generative AI political ad policy AI + ML26 Jun 2023 | 5
If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault +Comment Should you really believe the doomsayers? We're going to go with no AI + ML25 Jun 2023 | 139
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard AI in brief PLUS: Nuance voice AI startup hit with privacy lawsuit in California, and why OpenAI urged Microsoft to hold off releasing Bing Systems19 Jun 2023 | 13