LeCun founded Meta's Fundamental AI Research lab, known as FAIR, in 2013 and has served as the company's chief AI scientist ever since. He is one of three researchers who won the 2018 Turing Award for pioneering work on deep learning and convolutional neural networks. After leaving Meta, LeCun will remain a professor at New York University, where he has taught since 2003.
That's a crowded market where even her previous firm, 6Sense, offers agents. "I'm not playing in outbound," Kahlow tells TechCrunch. Mindy is intended to handle inbound sales, going all the way to "closing the deal," Kahlow says. This agent is used to augment self-service websites and, Kahlow says, to replace the sales engineer on calls for larger enterprise deals. It can also be the onboarding specialist, setting up new customers.
As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved "sentience." Or "consciousness." Or-my personal favorite-"a mind of its own." The Turing test was aced a while back, yes, but unlike rote intelligence, these things are not so easily pinned down. Large language models will claim to think for themselves, even describe inner torments or profess undying loves, but such statements don't imply interiority.
We collapse uncertainty into a line of meaning. A physician reads symptoms and decides. A parent interprets a child's silence. A writer deletes a hundred sentences to find one that feels true. The key point: Collapse is the work of judgment. It's costly and often can hurt. It means letting go of what could be and accepting the risk of being wrong.
The startup starts with the premise that large language models can't remember past interactions the way humans do. If two people are chatting and the connection drops, they can resume the conversation. AI models, by contrast, forget everything and start from scratch. Mem0 fixes that. Singh calls it a "memory passport," where your AI memory travels with you across apps and agents, just like email or logins do today.
Previous research using DNA from soldiers' remains found evidence of infection with Rickettsia prowazekii, which causes typhus, and Bartonella quintana, which causes trench fever - two common illnesses of the time. In a fresh analysis, researchers found no trace of these pathogens. Instead, DNA from soldiers' teeth showed evidence of infection with Salmonella enterica and Borrelia recurrentis, pathogens that cause paratyphoid and relapsing fever, respectively.
From virtual assistants capable of detecting sadness in voices to bots designed to simulate the warmth of a bond, artificial intelligence (AI) is crossing a more intimate frontier. The fervor surrounding AI is advancing on an increasingly dense bed of questions that no one has yet answered. And while it has the potential to reduce bureaucracy or predict diseases, large language models (LLMs) trained on data in multiple formats text, image, and speech
Organizations have long adopted cloud and on-premises infrastructure to build the primary data centers-notorious for their massive energy consumption and large physical footprints-that fuel AI's large language models (LLMs). Today these data centers are making edge data processing an increasingly attractive resource for fueling LLMs, moving compute and AI inference closer to the raw data their customers, partners, and devices generate.
AI labs are racing to build data centers as large as Manhattan, each costing billions of dollars and consuming as much energy as a small city. The effort is driven by a deep belief in "scaling" - the idea that adding more computing power to existing AI training methods will eventually yield superintelligent systems capable of performing all kinds of tasks.
There is an all-out global race for AI dominance. The largest and most powerful companies in the world are investing billions in unprecedented computing power. The most powerful countries are dedicating vast energy resources to assist them. And the race is centered on one idea: transformer-based architecture with large language models are the key to winning the AI race. What if they are wrong?
It's fair to say that belief is rarely rational. We organize information into patterns that "feel" internally stable. Emotional coherence may be best explained as the "quiet logic" that makes a story satisfying, somewhat like a leader being convincing or a conspiracy being oddly reassuring. And here's what's so powerful-It's not about accuracy, it's the psychological comfort or even that "gut" feeling. When the pieces fit, the mind relaxes into complacency (or perhaps coherence).
It's a phenomenon tied to the prevalence of text-based apps in dating. Recent surveys show that one in fiveadults under 30 met their partner on a dating app like Tinder or Hinge, and more than half are using dating apps. For years, app-based dating has been regarded as a profoundly alienating experience, a paradigm shift which coincides with a rapid rise in social isolation and loneliness.
His reward for going along with those demands, after being a faithful servant for 17 years at the edutech company? Getting replaced by a large language model, along with a couple dozen of his coworkers. That's, of course, after his boss reassured him that he wouldn't be replaced with AI. Deepening the bitter irony, Cantera - a researcher and historian - had actually grown pretty fond of the AI help, telling WaPo that it "was an incredible tool for me as a writer."
The late English writer Douglas Adams is best known as the author of the 1979 book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But there is much more to Adams than what is written in his Wikipedia entry. Whether or not you need to know that his birth sign is Pisces or that libraries worldwide store his books under the same string of numbers - 13230702 - you can if you head to an overlooked corner of the Wikimedia Foundation called Wikidata.
