Meta releases its biggest ‘open’ AI model yet
Meta’s latest open source AI model is its biggest yet. Today, Meta said it is releasing Llama 3.1 405B, a model containing 405 billion parameters. Parameters roughly correspond to a…
What Can AI Researchers Learn From Alien Hunters? The SETI Institute’s approach has lessons for research on artificial general intelligence
The emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI)—systems that can perform any task a human can—could be the most important event in human history, one that radically affects all aspects of…
10 ways artificial intelligence is transforming operations management
Operations management is about finding ways to do things more efficiently, precisely and smoothly. It includes a broad range of activities, such as planning, organizing, inventory and supply chain management, production scheduling, quality…
Marco Hutter Wants to Solve Robotics’ Hard Problems The AI Institute’s new Zurich head will focus on reliable, mobile robots
Last December, the AI Institute announced that it was opening an office in Zurich as a European counterpart to its Boston headquarters and recruited Marco Hutter to helm the office. Hutter also runs the Robotic…
The Who, Where, and How of Regulating AI
Jurisdictions joust over toxic chatbots; policymakers ponder existential risks During the past year, perhaps the only thing that has advanced as quickly as artificial intelligence is worry about artificial intelligence. In the…
AI that’s ready forbusiness starts withdata ready for AI
The quality and quantity of data can make or break AI success, and organizationsthat effectively harness and manage their data will reap the mostbenefits. Establishing a robust foundation of high-quality,…
Facebook AI Launches Its Deepfake Detection Challenge At the NeurIPS conference, Facebook asked researchers to build tools to spot deepfake videos
IN SEPTEMBER,Facebook sent out a strange casting call: We need all types of people to look into a webcam or phone camera and say very mundane things. The actors stood in…
On Advancing Global AI Governance
Artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes a general-purpose technology — perhaps one with transformative potential not seen since the Industrial Revolution. The technology’s power to spur both beneficial and harmful change is…
DO WE DARE USE GENERATIVE AI FOR MENTAL HEALTH?
THE MENTAL-HEALTH APP WOEBOT launched in 2017, back when “chatbot” wasn’t a familiar term and someone seeking a therapist could only imagine talking to a human being. Woebot was something exciting and…
Is AI Search a Medical Misinformation Disaster?
Google’s AI Overviews search tool may not be following the best policies Last month when Google introduced its new AI search tool, called AI Overviews, the company seemed confident that it had tested…