As conflicts rage across Ukraine and the Middle East, the modern battlefield has become a testing ground for AI-powered warfare. From autonomous drones to predictive targeting algorithms, AI systems are reshaping the nature of armed conflict. The US, Ukraine, Russia,…
Evolutionary biology was defined by Charles Darwin, but he had his critics, such as Alfred Russel Wallace, who added the theory of evolution as we know it today. Now, AI has contributed its own research to this debate thanks to…
ElevenLabs has signed deals that will soon have your next audiobook read to you by long-dead celebrities. ElevenLabs is pioneering research in text-to-speech, AI voice generation, and more controversially, AI voice cloning. Last week, the company launched its Reader App…
Google’s 2024 Environmental Report has laid bare the company’s uphill battle to achieve its ambitious goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. By the admission of its own evidence, Google has found itself grappling with the insatiable energy demands of…
On Monday the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution calling for richer countries to help developing nations benefit from AI. The non-binding resolution, entitled “Enhancing international cooperation on capacity-building of artificial intelligence”, was introduced by China’s permanent representative…
As tech giants like Apple, Samsung, Google, and Microsoft invest heavily in AI research and development, the era of the ‘AI device’ is thoroughly upon us. Apple’s AI features for mobile devices will launch as part of iOS 18 in…
A new study shows that while humans struggle to distinguish human and AI voices, our brains respond differently when we hear them. As AI voice cloning becomes more advanced, it raises ethical and safety concerns that humans weren’t exposed to…
The Detroit Police Department has settled a lawsuit filed by Robert Julian-Borchak Williams, a black man who was wrongfully arrested in January 2020 based on a flawed facial recognition match. As part of the settlement, the Detroit Police Department has…
Perplexity AI has found itself at the center of a firestorm over its data collection practices. Perplexity essentially fuses a search engine with generative AI, returning AI-generated content related to the user’s search query. The processes enabling this likely involve…
Microsoft security researchers have discovered a new way to manipulate AI systems into ignoring their ethical constraints and generating harmful, unrestricted content. This “Skeleton Key” jailbreak uses a series of prompts to gaslight the AI into believing it should comply…
Scientists at the University of Toronto’s Donelly Centre have developed a cutting-edge AI model called PepFlow that can predict the diverse shapes that peptides adopt with unprecedented accuracy. Peptides are small molecules made up of amino acids, the building blocks…
Welcome to this week’s roundup of hand-assembled bespoke AI news. This week Anthropic knocked OpenAI off pole position. AI audio generators face the music in court. And the top LLMs struggle with a puzzle your kids can solve. Let’s dig…
Researchers from the University of Reading in the UK conducted a blind study to see if human educators were able to detect AI-generated content. The results don’t bode well for teachers. The move toward remote learning has seen a lot…
AI has a myriad of uses, but one of its most concerning applications is the creation of deep fake media and misinformation. A new study from Google DeepMind and Jigsaw, a Google technology incubator that monitors societal threats, analyzed misuse…
AI startup EvolutionaryScale has released ESM3, a 98B-parameter generative LLM for “programming biology”. The company is focused on proteomics, the study of the interactions, function, composition, and structures of proteins and their cellular activities. While multimodal models like GPT-4 can…