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Article content OTTAWA — The federal government is opening a research centre that will study the dangers posed by artificial intelligence technology. Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced the launch of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute in Montreal on Tuesday. He said the centre will be important for building public trust in artificial intelligence technology. […]
OpenAI is facing diminishing returns with its latest AI model while navigating the pressures of recent investments. According to The Information, OpenAI’s next AI model – codenamed Orion – is delivering smaller performance gains compared to its predecessors. In employee testing, Orion reportedly achieved the performance level of GPT-4 after completing just 20% of its […]
On November 11, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was confirmed a second time as the prime minister by the National Diet. He will be heading a minority government led by his own Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito. Promising to create “a future for all citizens,” he appealed to the public for support: “In both foreign […]
The Washington Post has unveiled a new AI chatbot called “Ask The Post AI,” which aims to answer user questions accurately by relying on the newspaper’s content. The new AI chatbot follows the Climate Answers chatbot, which the publication released earlier this year. Unlike the climate journalism-focused Climate Answers, Ask the Post culls its answers […]
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How Airbnb leverages machine learning and reinforcement learning techniques to solve a unique information retrieval task in order to provide guests with unique, affordable, and differentiated accommodations around the world. By: Dillon Davis, Huiji Gao, Thomas Legrand, Weiwei Guo, Malay Haldar, Alex Deng, Han Zhao, Liwei He, Sanjeev Katariya Airbnb has transformed the way people […]
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Three years ago, during the hard Covid lockdown in The Netherlands, the news arrived at our company; we were going to be acquired by a competitor. At that point, my reference to company acquisitions was Meta buying Instagram or movies depicting evil corporations pushing local shops […]
Abu Dhabi has committed to investing tens of billions of dollars into AI and has tied up with Microsoft and Nvidia as part of its goals to invest in a future beyond crude. ABU DHABI: One of Abu Dhabi’s newest state-backed investment companies is looking at dozens of potential new deals as it plans to […]
The US ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers that are often used in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications starting Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Department of Commerce sent a letter to TSMC imposing export restrictions on certain sophisticated chips, of seven nanometer or more advanced designs, destined for China that power AI accelerator and graphics processing units (GPU), […]
By Yu Sinan How powerful is the energy generated when artificial intelligence (AI) collides with scientific research? Recently, the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry were awarded to scientists in AI-related fields, which highlighted AI’s increasingly significant role in scientific research. Turing Award winner and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Andrew Chi-Chih […]