While generative AI tools that primarily amount to slop generators grab most of the attention in the artificial intelligence space, there are occasionally some actually useful applications of…
Read more Google’s AI Weather Model Nailed Its First Major Storm ForecastThe investment firm was founded by Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen in 2009. Photos by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for WIRED and Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty…
Read more Andreessen Horowitz Founders Notice A.I. Models Are Hitting a CeilingIn late July, OpenAI began rolling out an eerily humanlike voice interface for ChatGPT. In a safety analysis released today, the company acknowledges that this anthropomorphic voice may…
Read more OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice ModeSeveral years before ChatGPT began jibber-jabbering away, Google developed a very different kind of artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo that learned to play the board game Go with…
Read more Google DeepMind’s Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blind SpotIn a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper—thanks to a large…
Read more Google DeepMind’s Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger RevolutionThis week a startup called Cognition AI caused a bit of a stir by releasing a demo showing an artificial intelligence program called Devin performing work usually done…
Read more Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the FutureHis group decided to find out. They built the new, diversified version of AlphaZero, which includes multiple AI systems that trained independently and on a variety of situations.…
Read more Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AITen years ago, Pear VC, then a tiny new venture firm, operated out of a nondescript office in Palo Alto that was enlivened by bright, computer-themed art. Last…
Read more A new breed of companies expand in San Francisco’s prime areas | TechCrunch[A version of this piece first appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind team debuted Open X-Embodiment, a database of robotics functionality created…
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