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⚙️ New Poll: Americans want AI regulation

AI for Good: Waste management p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The U.S. is home to more than 2,600 active landfills (and thousands of closed ones). The environmental cost of these landfills is extreme and multi-faceted, emitting methane and other greenhouse gases in addition to sacrificing and damaging hundreds of thousands of acres of land.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } This has led to ‘Zero Waste’ initiatives, the goal of which is to reduce waste to a ba...

⚙️ Microsoft makes Bill Gates’ AI dreams come true

AI for Good: Exoplanet discovery  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } For four years, NASA’s Kepler Mission observed more than 200,000 stars in a deep search for signs of distant planets in orbit around stars.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } In 2021, NASA deployed an AI algorithm — ExoMiner — to parse through the years of data gathered by the mission to identify exoplanets. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The algorithm added 301 validated ex...

⚙️ IBM and UNDP launch energy equity program

OpenAI launches independent safety committee p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } OpenAI on Monday said that it is converting its Safety and Security Committee — which was established in May amid mounting safety concerns — into an independent board oversight committee.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } This conversion is one of five recommendations that the Safety and Security Committee has made, all of which OpenAI is adopting.  p span[style*="font-size"] { lin...

⚙️ The new hardware that will transform AI

The Deep View speaks with Gary Marcus p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } A few weeks ago, I finally got the chance to (virtually) meet AI researcher and cognitive scientist Dr. Gary Marcus. We spoke for nearly an hour about his new book, “Taming Silicon Valley,” and about the technical and philosophical complexities of AI.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } I’ve had the wonderful pleasure and distinct privilege of speaking with hundreds of experts, professors, en...

⚙️ Meet Datambit, a new AI startup working on deepfake detection

AI for Good: The hunt for alien life  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Humans have been looking out at the stars — wondering what may lie beyond — long before we had long-range telescopes, computer programs and remote satellites.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But now we do have those technological means of searching the outer reaches of space. And in addition to telescopes and satellites, we have artificial intelligence, something that is helping scientist...

⚙️ Gary Marcus on fighting for a positive AI future

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. Good Morning. Welcome to this first weekend longread edition of The Deep View. In the opening pages, Marcus, a cognitive scientist and AI researcher, gets into the meat of the ethical problems posed by AI and the companies that are assembling the tech. If nothing is done, he says, if Silicon Valley is not tamed, “the imbalances of power, where unelected tech leaders control an enormous swath of our lives, will grow. Fair elections may become a thing of t...

⚙️ Why LLMs struggle with math

MBZUAI Research: LLMs struggle with math problems. Here’s whyArt by Lorena Spurio, created for The Deep View. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Even as large language models (LLMs) have become more powerful and more capable, they continue to struggle with math word problems.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Where a lot of research has focused on evaluations of LLMs’ shoddy performance when it comes to such word problems, recent research from the Mohamed Bin Z...

⚙️ Contextual AI: Building the next generation of RAG

AI for Good: Malaria mitigation p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Bed nets — loaded up with insecticides — have been the main method of malaria protection and mitigation since the 1990s. Still, the World Health Organization tracks hundreds of millions of malaria cases, and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Zzapp is leveraging artificial intelligence to find a better solution.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height...

⚙️ Interview: The content authenticity initiative

AI for Good: How the UN is reducing disaster risk p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } We’ve talked often about the careful application of AI in simulating, predicting, mitigating and managing the risk of a range of natural disasters.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } From wildfires to earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes and hurricanes, scientists are studying ways to increase their speed and accuracy in predicting what’s coming, where it’ll hit and how bad it’ll be....

⚙️ How one energy company is utilizing AI

📊 Agents that actually work p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } New AI agents are emerging daily, but how many actually work? Numbers Station releases an exclusive look at how they deliver analytics agents to their customers. Their agents work in unison so users can query across different data sources. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The Search Agent – unifies fragmented analytics assets (dashboards, schemas, warehouses, email) to find one that answers the quest...

⚙️ The FTC’s AI crackdown

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning, and happy Friday. This week, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta unveiled Orion, a prototype model of the company’s AR glasses designed to merge the virtual and physical world in one seamless interface.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But that all got drowned out by the leadership chaos (again) at OpenAI. Now, Sam Altman is all that’s left … this has certainly not made me trust OpenAI more.  p span[style*="font-size"] { li...

California Gov. signs AI transparency bill

MBZUAI Research: Detecting questionable (funny) content onlineSource: Created with AI by The Deep View p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The world of online content moderation is one that seems ripe for AI-based assistance. But the nature of some types of questionable content generally makes it difficult for AI to be of much help.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The content in question here is “comic mischief content,” or potentially objectionable content tha...

⚙️ MIT professor on achieving fair AI

AI for Good: IBM & NASA release open-source weather model p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } IBM recently collaborated with NASA to design a general-purpose climate AI model. The model was designed to be easily customizable to a variety of practical weather and climate functions.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Last week, they open-sourced the completed model on Hugging Face.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The model was traine...

⚙️ The strange story of OpenAI and Sam Altman

Microsoft ships massive Copilot update p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Microsoft rolled out a huge overhaul of its generative AI-enabled Copilot feature Tuesday.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The refresh of the software boils down to three main features: Copilot ‘voice,’ ‘vision’ and ‘Think Deeper.’ The voice feature enables users to interact with Copilot on an audio level; the vision feature enables Copilot to scan what a user is doing on a...

⚙️ German court dismisses copyright lawsuit

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning. It’s finally happened. OpenAI has secured nearly $7 billion in new funding at a post-money valuation of $157 billion (it was last valued at $86 billion). p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The ChatGPT startup is now one of the largest private companies — by valuation, but certainly not by revenue — in the country. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } We’ve got the details below. p span[style*="font-...

⚙️ AI companies need a lot of money. Investors are still forking it over

AI for Good: NASA discovers a new triple-star system p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } A team of NASA professionals, working alongside amateur astronomers — and armed with artificial intelligence — recently discovered a new triple-star system.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The system contains one set of stars that orbit each other every 1.8 days, with a third star circling the first two every 25 days. This discovery broke a 1956 record for the...

⚙️ Eric Xing and the Age of AI Empowerment

I met up with Xing in Abu Dhabi, and we talked for nearly 90 minutes about the realities, pitfalls and promises of artificial intelligence. Our podcast — The Deep View: Conversations — is in its second episode now, which features Dr. Eric Xing, the president of the world’s first AI-only research institution. Before the printing press, books were hand-written by scribes, where they were read by a very slim slice of the population. The printing press allowed for the cheap distribution of knowledge...

⚙️ The Nobel Prize and the mainstreaming of AI’s X-Risk

AI for Good: Safer space travel Source: Stanford University p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } In light of the enormous complexities — and tremendous costs and risks — associated with space travel, researchers at Stanford are working to develop AI-based algorithms specifically designed to achieve computationally precise trajectories for vehicles in space.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: A team of aerospace engineers at the university in March pres...

Nvidia's push for AI agents

MBZUAI Research: Multi-lingual diversity in vision modelsSource: Created with AI by The Deep View p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } A significant setback of large language models and the generative AI systems built atop that architecture involves limitations in language. These models are primarily centered around English, with a few other major Western-centric languages.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The result — when it comes to visual question answering (...

⚙️ Mark Zuckerberg one-ups OpenAI ... again

AI for Good: Methane mapping p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } When we talk about global warming, we often talk about a culprit in the form of carbon dioxide emissions. But there’s more than one type of greenhouse gas, and methane is a major contributor to global warming.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } What happened: Earlier this year, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) launched a satellite — the MethaneSat — that will map, measure and track methane in par...
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