The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act officially entered into force on August 1, 2024 – a watershed moment for global AI regulation. This sweeping legislation categorizes AI systems based on their risk levels, imposing different degrees of oversight that…
Meta’s research division has introduced SAM 2 (Segment Anything Model 2), an AI system that marks a huge advancement in video analysis. This new model expands on its predecessor SAM’s image segmentation skills, venturing into the more complex domain of…
California is considering several bills to regulate AI with SB 1047 and AB 3211 set to have a huge impact on AI developers if they become law next month. Arguments over AI risks and how to mitigate them continue and…
The US Department of Commerce issued a policy endorsing open models in a sign of the Biden-Harris administration’s views on the contentious issue. Supporters of closed models like OpenAI and Google talk up the risks of open models while others…
Despite its immense popularity, OpenAI is allegedly burning through cash at an unsustainable rate and could face a staggering $5 billion loss by the end of 2024. That’s according to a shock report from The Information, which cites unreleased internal…
Elon Musk shared a video on X which mimics the voice of Kamala Harris raising concerns over the effect AI deep fakes could have on the upcoming US elections. Musk has publicly endorsed Donald Trump in his bid for a…
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has initiated a strike against video game companies. The union is primarily concerned about the misuse of generative AI technology, which could reproduce actors’ voices and likenesses without proper…
A new study published in Nature reveals that AI models, including large language models (LLMs), rapidly degrade in quality when trained on data generated by previous AI models. This phenomenon, termed “model collapse,” could erode the quality of future AI…
OpenAI announced a prototype of its new AI-powered search engine, SearchGPT. SearchGPT aims to provide “fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources” to transform how we interact with online information. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed confidence in the…
Welcome to this week’s roundup of handwoven AI news. This week Llamas streaked ahead in the open AI race. Big Tech firms talk up safety while their models misbehave. And making AI scared might make it work better. Let’s dig…
Meta has released its upgraded Llama 3.1 models in 8B, 70B, and 405B versions and committed to Mark Zuckerberg’s open source vision for the future of AI. The new additions to Meta’s Llama family of models come with an expanded…
OpenAI has found itself at the center of a Senate inquiry following allegations of rushed safety testing. Five senators, led by Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), demanded that the company provide detailed information about its safety practices and employee agreements. The inquiry…
Google unveiled NeuralGCM, a hybrid weather prediction model that combines machine learning with traditional forecasting techniques and has surprising benefits. Weather prediction has enjoyed dramatic improvements in forecast accuracy but traditional techniques require vast computing resources to run increasingly complex…
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) found that writing dangerous prompts in the past tense bypassed the refusal training of the most advanced LLMs. AI models are commonly aligned using techniques like supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or…
AI research is fueled by the pursuit of ever-greater sophistication, which includes training systems to think and behave like humans. The end goal? Who knows. The goal for now? To create autonomous, generalized AI agents capable of performing a wide…