Engineering researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have demonstrated a state-of-the-art hardware device that could reduce energy consumption for artificial intelligent (AI) computing applications by a factor of at least 1,000.
The research is published in npj Unconventional Computing, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature.
… The CRAM architecture enables the true computation in and by memory and breaks down the wall between the computation and memory as the bottleneck in traditional von Neumann architecture, a theoretical design for a stored program computer that serves as the basis for almost all modern computers.
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DeepMind hits milestone in solving maths problems — AI’s next grand challenge
After beating humans at everything from the game of Go to strategy board games, Google DeepMind now says it is on the verge of besting the world’s top students at solving mathematics problems.
The London-based machine-learning company announced on 25 July that its artificial intelligence (AI) systems had solved four of the six problems that were given to school students at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Bath, UK, this month. The AI produced rigorous, step-by-step proofs that were marked by two top mathematicians and earned a score of 28/42 — just one point shy of the gold-medal range.
… DeepMind and other companies are in a race to eventually have machines give proofs that would solve substantial research questions in maths. Problems set at the IMO — the world’s premier competition for young mathematicians — have become a benchmark for progress towards that goal, and have come to be seen as a “grand challenge” for machine learning, the company says. — Read More
Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet
Back in April, Meta teased that it was working on a first for the AI industry: an open-source model with performance that matched the best private models from companies like OpenAI.
Today, that model has arrived. Meta is releasing Llama 3.1, the largest-ever open-source AI model, which the company claims outperforms GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet on several benchmarks. It’s also making the Llama-based Meta AI assistant available in more countries and languages while adding a feature that can generate images based on someone’s specific likeness. CEO Mark Zuckerberg now predicts that Meta AI will be the most widely used assistant by the end of this year, surpassing ChatGPT. — Read More
AI arms race escalates: OpenAI offers free GPT-4o Mini fine-tuning to counter Meta’s Llama 3.1 release
OpenAI has intensified the AI arms race by announcing free fine-tuning for its GPT-4o Mini model, just hours after Meta launched its open-source Llama 3.1 model.
While OpenAI had teased the imminent arrival of customization features in last week’s GPT-4o Mini announcement, the timing of this release couldn’t have been more perfect—or more pointed. Just hours after Meta released its Llama 3.1 model, OpenAI fired back with its own offering. Coincidence? Perhaps. But in the high-stakes competition for AI dominance, such precise moves rarely happen by chance. — Read More
Artificial intelligence isn’t a good argument for basic income
We’re flooded by guaranteed income pilot experiments that offer some promising results, but don’t seem to be moving us any closer to actual federal policy. Yet findings published today from the largest randomized basic income experiment in the US to date, backed by Sam Altman and OpenAI, should get your notice.
The study, held from November 2020 through October 2023, gave 1,000 recipients $1,000 per month, no strings attached. It’s one of the biggest and longest trials ever run on direct cash giving. Many other basic income pilots have given people $500 or less, and rarely for more than a year or two. — Read More
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OpenAI’s “Strawberry” Model: Stage 2 Of 5-Level AI Development?
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is developing a new AI model named “Strawberry.” This initiative aims to advance AI tools towards human-level intelligence through enhanced reasoning capabilities. Building on the previous Q* project, Strawberry is designed to autonomously scan the internet and perform “deep research.”
Strawberry is a cutting-edge AI model intended to tackle complex real-world problems on a large scale. This model builds upon the Q* project, which was previously hailed as a technical breakthrough, enabling the creation of “far more powerful” AI models. — Read More
The Internet Creator’s Guide to the Future
TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. I go in depth with Steph Smith, a16z Podcast host and internet creator. We dive into how AI is reshaping the world that internet creators live in. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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I spent an hour talking to her about the future of creating on the internet in the age of AI. We had a wide-ranging discussion about:
— How AI narrows the gap between ideas and execution
— How AI changes what humans perceive as valuable in art and creativity
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AI can make you more creative—but it has limits
Generative AI models have made it simpler and quicker to produce everything from text passages and images to video clips and audio tracks. Texts and media that might have taken years for humans to create can now be generated in seconds.
But while AI’s output can certainly seem creative, do these models actually boost human creativity?
That’s what two researchers set out to explore in new research published today in Science Advances, studying how people used OpenAI’s large language model GPT-4 to write short stories.
The model was helpful—but only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the quality of the stories produced by writers who were already creative. The stories in which AI had played a part were also more similar to each other than those dreamed up entirely by humans. — Read More
AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield
The military use of AI-enabled weapons is growing, and the industry that provides them is booming
Asquad of soldiers is under attack and pinned down by rockets in the close quarters of urban combat. One of them makes a call over his radio, and within moments a fleet of small autonomous drones equipped with explosives fly through the town square, entering buildings and scanning for enemies before detonating on command. One by one the suicide drones seek out and kill their targets. A voiceover on the video, a fictional ad for multibillion-dollar Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems, touts the AI-enabled drones’ ability to “maximize lethality and combat tempo”.
While defense companies like Elbit promote their new advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) with sleek dramatizations, the technology they are developing is increasingly entering the real world. — Read More
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