Researchers find that Gemini can’t even beat GPT-3.5 Turbo
When Google announced the release of its Gemini models there was a lot of excitement as the company said these were on par with offerings from…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
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DAI#18 – Dolphins, doubles, and cheeky AI upstarts
Welcome to this week’s AI news roundup. We’ve heard rumors this is Elon Musk’s favorite AI news source. This week AI pranked presidents while fiddling with…
By Eugene van der Watt · 6 min read
ETH Zurich’s robot masters labyrinth game with machine learning
Researchers from ETH Zurich developed a robotic system that can solve a real-world labyrinth game using reinforcement learning. As detailed in their study “Sample-Efficient Learning to…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
ML boosts X-ray diffraction techniques to find new materials
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
VERSES claims AGI breakthrough in open letter to OpenAI
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
AI-designed proteins display exceptional binding strengths
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
Dolphin Mixtral: A powerful open-source uncensored AI model
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
OpenAI releases first results from Superalignment project
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
Western Sydney University prepares to switch on its DeepSouth supercomputer
Researchers at Western Sydney University in Australia are gearing up to launch DeepSouth, a new supercomputer designed to emulate the human brain. DeepSouth aims to overcome…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
OpenAI partners with Axel Springer to bring news to ChatGPT
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