Eugene comes from an electronic engineering background and loves all things tech. When he takes a break from consuming AI news, you'll find him at the snooker table.
LinkedIn ↗Material scientists are constantly trying to find new materials with specific properties but the experimental data they have to wade through is overwhelming. Scientists at the…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
An AI company called VERSES made a bold statement with a billboard it posted outside OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco. The billboard read, “Got AGI? Would…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine used AI to design new protein molecules in a way that opens up exciting possibilities for the…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
French AI startup Mistral released its open-source Mixture of Experts model Mixtral 8x7B last week. An AI researcher released a version of the model with its…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Reaching prospective voters effectively normally requires a team of campaign staff to make thousands of telephone calls. A Pennsylvania congressional candidate is using an AI robocaller…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Current AI models are capable of doing a lot of unsafe or undesirable things. Human supervision and feedback keep these models aligned but what will happen…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
OpenAI has partnered with media and news publisher Axel Springer to deliver summaries of global news content to ChatGPT users. In its announcement, OpenAI said this…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Earlier this month Google proudly announced that its most powerful Gemini model beat GPT-4 on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding MMLU benchmark tests. Microsoft’s new prompting…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Welcome to a roundup of this week’s juiciest AI news. This week AI starred in Google’s fake video. Reformed music pirates get back in the saddle.…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
LimeWire started as a peer-to-peer music-sharing tool in 2000, was shut down in 2010 for copyright violations, and has now made a comeback with an AI…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
