#ai-research

#ai-research

Researchers identified 139 novel methods to cause AI systems to misbehave, including generating misinformation and leaking personal data, during a red teaming exercise.

The closure comes amid broader layoffs within Amazon Web Services, reflecting escalating geopolitical friction between the United States and China.

New York, a bona fide destination for tech companies, is further catching up to San Francisco as a tech hub as the importance of having an East Coast presence grows.

Konwinski described the Laude Institute's mission as 'built by and for computer science researchers ... We exist to catalyze work that doesn't just push the field forward but guides it towards more beneficial outcomes.'

The advancement of vision-language models (VLMs) relies on foundational design choices, yet many lack justification, hindering progress by obscuring performance improvements.

Diplomacy is a strategic board game set on a map of Europe in 1901 - a time when tensions between the continent's most powerful countries were simmering in the lead-up to World War I.

The collaboration emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary research, bringing together experts from various domains to push the boundaries of AI technology and applications.

The researchers, the AI scientists in China, they're world-class. These are not Chinese AI researchers, they're world-class AI researchers.

The amount of computer science breakthroughs is really quite significant and has really opened up a lot of great research for researchers in the United States and around the world.

Meta has appointed Robert Fergus as the new head of its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, a move aimed at revitalizing the unit following significant departures.

Meta's challenges with AI competition are compounded by Joelle Pineau's unexpected departure, demanding swift advancements in their AI capabilities.