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Climatologists have spent decades amassing data on how the weather has changed at points around the globe. Efforts such as ERA5, a record of climate back to 1950, developed by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), are a kind of simulation of the earth over time, a record of the wind speed, temperature, air pressure, and other variables, hour by hour.Google’s DeepMind this week is heralding what it calls a turning point in using all that data to make inexpensive predict…
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The world is starved for GPU chips from the dominant artificial intelligence vendor, Nvidia. That has so far not produced a meaningful surge in chip sales by competitors Advanced Micro Devices and Intel. But it may be helping to build a new kind of computing model.“It’s increasingly the case that there’s, sort of, one alternative to Nvidia,” said Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of AI computing startup Cerebras Systems, which sells a massive AI computer, the CS-2, running the world’s largest…
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The next version of OpenAI’s large language model program, which would be called GPT-5, faces some very difficult scientific challenges that make it hard to set a definite timeframe for when the program might appear, said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday. “The number of things we’ve gotta figure out before we make a model that we’ll call GPT-5 is still a lot,” said Altman, in a press conference following the company’s first-ever developer conference, which took place in San Francisco. Also: Op…
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OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft has no fixed definition of who is leading or handling enterprise AI sales, said Sam Altman, CEO of the artificial intelligence startup. Instead, each company tries its best for “the most shared success possible.“Altman, speaking to a small group of press at the company’s first-ever developer conference, in San Francisco, on Monday, indicated there was no set structure to the relationship, which has involved Microsoft putting over ten billion dollars worth of…
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The field of robotics, a classic application of artificial intelligence, has recently been amplified by the very new and fashionable technology of generative AI, programs such as large language models from OpenAI that can interact with natural language statements. For example, Google’s DeepMind unit this year unveiled RT-2, a large language model that can be presented with an image and a command, and then spit out both a plan of action and the coordinates necessary to complete the command.Also:…
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Today’s generative artificial intelligence programs, tools such as ChatGPT, are on course to produce many more kinds of results than just text, as ZDNET has explored in some depth. One of the most important of those “modalities,” as they’re known, is what’s called time series data -- data that measures the same variables at different points in time to spot trends. Data in a time series format can be important for things such as tracking patient medical history over time with the entries made by…
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OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, has gone to extensive lengths to bolster the safety of the program by establishing guardrails that prevent it from responding with dangerous advice or slanderous comments. However, a great way to violate those guardrails is to simply speak to ChatGPT in a less commonly studied language such as Zulu or Scots Gaelic, according to researchers at Brown University. Also: Cerebras and Abu Dhabi build world’s most powerful Arabic-language AI model”We find that s…
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The field of deep learning artificial intelligence, especially the area of “large language models,” is trying to determine why the programs notoriously lapse into inaccuracies, often referred to as “hallucinations.“Google’s DeepMind unit tackles the question in a recent report, framing the matter as a paradox: If a large language model can conceivably “self-correct,” meaning, figure out where it has erred, why doesn’t it just give the right answer to begin with?Also: 8 ways to reduce ChatGPT ha…
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Microsoft is seeing big growth in the generative AI business, as the company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, Tuesday evening told Wall Street that the company’s paying customers for its GitHub Copilot software rose by 40% in the September quarter from the prior quarter.“We have over 1 million paid copilot users in more than 37,000 organizations that subscribe to copilot for business,” said Nadella, “with significant traction outside the United States.“Also: GitHub’s AI-powered coding assistant moves to p…
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Generative artificial intelligence, like the kind that powers OpenAI’s DALL-E, ChatGPT, and other popular programs, is going to be an important tool for breakthroughs in oncology, the study of cancer, according to Daphne Koller. Koller is an AI pioneer and co-founder and CEO of life sciences AI firm Insitro.“What we’ve taken on as an effort is to really learn the language of histopathology [the study of tissues]… and then use that to […] give us potential [drug] targets,” said Koller, speaking…
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The applications of artificial intelligence in health care are numerous. But they are largely dominated by older AI technology; newer things such as so-called generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are the craze of the moment, but they are deemed too risky to be used to any great extent in health care given the sensitive nature of health applications, as ZDNET has recently reported. Efforts in open-source software could help advance generative AI by making it a little bit easier to look…
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