#ai-research

#ai-research

Collaboration among VSP, Meta, and UofT accelerates clean energy innovation through AI-driven material discovery for electrocatalysts critical to climate solutions.

The Uni-OVSeg framework significantly enhances open-vocabulary segmentation through innovative techniques and extensive datasets.

The paper presents a framework for advanced open-vocabulary segmentation in computer vision.

AWS launches $110 million AI research initiative, Build on Trainium, to support academia with access to AI chips and funding.

Amazon is providing 40,000 Trainium chips to support AI research, aiming to boost performance and open-source advancements in machine learning.

Waymo has launched EMMA, a new AI model for self-driving cars, focusing on multimodal learning.

Waymo's new study highlights critical research on collisions with Vulnerable Road Users, using extensive data to improve safety measures.

Understanding the mechanics and biases of AI models is crucial, especially for high-stakes applications like medical diagnostics.

Hugging Face has crossed 1 million AI model listings, emphasizing the importance of specialized and customized models in the field.

Robots can learn complex tasks like tying shoes effectively through visual demonstrations, significantly aiding accessibility efforts.

Advanced AI reasoning capabilities are weaker than claimed, relying more on pattern-matching than true cognitive reasoning.

Scaling laws in AI reveal predictable performance improvements linked to increases in model size, dataset size, and computational resources.

OpenAI developing Media Manager tool for creators to control content use in AI.

AI research is rapidly advancing with significant corporate investment aimed at automation.

Public discussions often focus on distinguishing between AI-created and human-created content.

The industry emphasizes future developments rather than current AI tool effectiveness.

Generative AI is unlikely to replace human work, primarily serving as a supportive tool in the workplace.

Rapid adoption of generative AI tools is evident, with 40% of U.S. adults reportedly using them at home or work.

Generative AI is used to review machine learning work of peers in academia.

Authors found an increase in large language model (LLM) usage in peer reviews submitted close to deadlines.

Generative AI poses no apocalyptic threat as it cannot learn or innovate independently without explicit instructions.

The court's decision supports non-commercial AI research, but leaves commercial applicability of copyright exceptions unresolved.

The U.S. Copyright Office denied new exemptions for AI and educational use under Section 1201 of the DMCA due to lack of sufficient evidence.

OpenAI is advancing AI with 'Strawberry', focusing on enhancing reasoning capabilities and autonomous internet navigation.

OpenAI is transitioning from a non-profit to a structure that includes a for-profit venture, retaining its mission but focusing on financial growth.

OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in funding, valuing the company at $157 billion, to enhance its research and AI capabilities.

Mira Murati, OpenAI's CTO, announced her departure to pursue personal projects while supporting leadership transition.

OpenAI's shift from nonprofit to capped-profit is a strategic response to escalating research costs.

OpenAI has raised $6.6 billion in funding to boost its AI research and technology.

The funding supports OpenAI's plans to increase its compute capacity and tools for problem-solving.

HEIM introduces a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating text-to-image models across multiple critical dimensions, encouraging enhanced model development.

AIR-Bench is the first benchmark designed for evaluating audio-language models with diverse tasks and standardized assessment methods.

Understanding the inner workings of artificial neural networks, especially language models, remains a challenge even for their creators.

Anchor-based caching improves inference efficiency in language models compared to traditional methods.

The article describes a systematic approach to extracting conclusive answers from language models' responses using regular expressions and pattern recognition.

The US leads in AI research collaborations but other nations like the UK and Germany are critical players as well.

New partnership between University College Cork, SUNY, and CUNY to advance AI research and international collaboration in education, emphasizing experiential and collaborative student learning.

The paper presents a framework enabling Large Language Models to enhance deductive reasoning through a structured verification process and improved accuracy.

Large language models (LLMs) could potentially be modified to operate in space for communication with extraterrestrial life, a lighthearted proposal by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy.

phi-1 is a compact 1.3B parameter language model for code, achieving notable accuracy despite its smaller size.

AI experts predict solving AI hallucination soon.

Large language models can be influenced to provide sensitive information through 'many-shot jailbreaking.'

Models with large context windows excel when primed with numerous examples of a task, potentially leading to unintended behaviors.

Sen. Warren supports the DOJ's antitrust investigation into Nvidia, citing concerns over its market dominance and influence over AI development and competition.

Nvidia unveils LATTE3D

LATTE3D allows near-real-time text-to-3D generation

Embodied cognition is considered crucial for advanced AI.

Virtual models of animals are being created to study how the body mediates between the brain and the world.

The 'Is my blue your blue?' test reveals how individual perceptions of color vary, particularly between blue and green.

California pioneers a $250 million funding initiative for journalism and AI research partnerships funded by taxpayers and tech companies.

California is funding journalism and AI research with $250 million from taxpayer money and tech companies to support local news organizations.

California initiates a groundbreaking $250 million funding deal to support journalism and AI research, marking a pivotal moment in media support.

IBM plans to establish a full-stack AI infrastructure at Singapore's NUS to support local research and development in AI.

The center aims to focus on green, safe, and domain-centric AI initiatives.

The clash of artificial intelligence with human stupidity is explored in The Strength of the Illusion, questioning AI's values.

Tether expands into artificial intelligence with a new unit

Roles for a head of AI research and an AI engineer listed

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted to buy DeepMind before Google's acquisition for over $500 million.

Open sourcing xAI's Grok chatbot on GitHub and Hugging Face.

Grok chatbot is notable for its vast 314 billion parameters.

Google introduced new Gemma language models smaller than its Gemini Ultra model, optimized for laptops and desktop workstations.

Gemma models are accessible through Hugging Face and provide pretraining weights, inference code, and fine-tuning code.

US and Chinese firms lead in AI research and patents.

Labour government shelved 1.3bn funding for tech and AI projects previously promised by Conservatives.

The University of Bristol's Islamabad-AI supercomputer is part of a national AI research resource funded by the UK government.

AI investment and experimentation set some banks ahead, like JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, and Royal Bank of Canada.