The RAND Corporation, a think tank with deep ties to tech billionaires’ funding networks, notably through Open Philanthropy, played a critical role in drafting President Joe…
By Sam Jeans · 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
DeepMind researchers unveiled “FunSearch,” a novel method leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to unearth new mathematics and computer science solutions. The paper, published in Nature, describes…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read
As Bangladesh prepares for its national elections in early January, an increasingly familiar threat is rearing its ugly head: AI-generated deep fake misinformation. The Bangladeshi election…
By Sam Jeans · 2 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
Russian President Vladimir Putin was confronted with a question from an AI-generated deep fake version of himself during a live Q&A session with the public. This…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
AI has proven a potent weapon for conservationists, with projects demonstrating its ability to monitor rare species, pollution, deforestation, and habitat loss. Now, this has extended…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
The UK’s University of Oxford is encouraging its Economics and Management undergraduates to employ AI tools like ChatGPT for drafting essays – no, that’s not a…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read
Google has recently unveiled its new AI-powered coding tool, Duet AI for Developers and AI Studio, for development with Gemini APIs. Like Copilot, Duet AI for…
By Sam Jeans · 2 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
