Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said today that the company made an existential business decision in 2018 that few realized would redefine its future and help redefine an evolving industry. It’s paid off enormously, of course, but Huang said this is only the beginning of an AI-powered near future — a future powered primarily by Nvidia hardware. Was this successful gambit lucky or smart? The answer, it seems, is “yes.”
He made these remarks and reflections during a keynote at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. That watershed moment five years ago, Huang said, was the choice to embrace AI-powered image processing in the form of ray tracing and intelligent upscaling: RTX and DLSS, respectively. — Read More
Monthly Archives: August 2023
DoD Creates New Generative AI Task Force
The Department of Defense (DoD) today announced the establishment of a new generative AI task force – dubbed Task Force Lima – aimed at assessing and integrating generative AI capabilities across the DoD.
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) will lead Task Force Lima, ensuring that the DoD remains at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies.
“The establishment of Task Force Lima underlines the Department of Defense’s unwavering commitment to leading the charge in AI innovation,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said in a press release. “As we navigate the transformative power of generative AI, our focus remains steadfast on ensuring national security, minimizing risks, and responsibly integrating these technologies.” — Read More
Does AI Understand the World?
Do large language models understand the world? As a scientist and engineer, I’ve avoided asking whether an AI system “understands” anything. There’s no widely agreed-upon, scientific test for whether a system really understands — as opposed to appearing to understand — just as no such tests exist for consciousness or sentience, as I discussed in an earlier letter. This makes the question of understanding a matter of philosophy rather than science. But with this caveat, I believe that LLMs build sufficiently complex models of the world that I feel comfortable saying that, to some extent, they do understand the world. — Read More
Conversation with Geoff Hinton
(Video) Simplifying Startup Building w/ Cody Jung, Founder of Founder Way
How can a founder figure out what accelerators and grants to apply for? What AI tools will best help them build their startup? What are the best strategies for pitching to investors? Cody Jung sat down with inside.com to answer these questions and more while sharing his journey of building Founderway.ai. Founder Way (previously called Dium, as you’ll hear it referred to in this talk) is a platform that acts like Turbo Tax for building startups. Founders are guided through questions that cover every step of the company-building process. — Read More
Disney Now Has an Entire A.I. Task Force — Report
The Walt Disney Company has created a “task force” designed to study the use of AI, or artificial intelligence, and how it can be applied across the organization. According to Reuters, the task force was launched earlier this year, before the start of the WGA strike that began in May.
Disney currently lists 11 different job descriptions centered around either artificial intelligence or machine learning, according to Reuters, and they touch multiple sections of the company, including roles in Walt Disney Studios, Parks, Imagineering, Disney Branded Television, and the advertising team. (A quick search pretty easily locates five of the open roles.) — Read More
Is Artificial Intelligence Our “Oppenheimer Moment”? Mo Gawdat’s Warning To The World
Hollywood’s AI Future Is Now
Writers and actors in Hollywood are demanding more control over how artificial intelligence will be used by studios in the future. There’s a lot of dystopian language being thrown around — that AI could be an existential threat to livelihoods; that it could replace entire professions. But the thing is: AI is already very much a part of the Hollywood production process today. VFX artist Ryan Laney explains how he used AI to help disguise and protect the identities of LGBTQ+ people in a documentary called Welcome to Chechnya. … Less altruistically, AI has resurrected Paul Walker for the Fast & Furious franchise and de-aged multiple boomer leading men such as Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford. … [W]hether AI is good or bad is up to who controls the technology, not the tech itself. — Read More
The Hardware Behind the AI
AI Hardware, Explained: In 2011, Marc Andreessen said, “software is eating the world.” And in the last year, we’ve seen a new wave of generative AI, with some apps becoming some of the most swiftly adopted software products of all time.
So if software is becoming more important than ever, hardware is following suit. — Read More
Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs: (U)nlocking the full potential of AI means a constant need for faster and more resilient hardware. — Read More
The True Cost of Compute: … But how much does this all really cost? In this final segment of our AI hardware series, we tackle that question head on. — Read More
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101.school
101.school is an experiment in creating AI generated course contents.
It works like this: you enter something you’re curious about, and then we generate a 13 week course on the subject.
You can choose to receive the course via email, or read it on the site. We’ll keep track of your progress. — Read More
New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95%.
When Zoom was used for training the sound classification algorithm, the prediction accuracy dropped to 93%, which is still dangerously high, and a record for that medium.
Such an attack severely affects the target’s data security, as it could leak people’s passwords, discussions, messages, or other sensitive information to malicious third parties. — Read More
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