A Google AI engineer is placed on paid leave, he says, for claiming that he has found evidence that LaMDA, Google's system for building chatbots, is sentient, and for raising ethical concerns internally about its treatment.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/14/2022
Ireland's first AI Ambassador is charged with promoting the ethical use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, as well as driving their development and deployment in Irish enterprises.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/27/2022
Artificial intelligence researchers in Meta's AI group adopts Microsoft Azure virtual machines for their large-scale AI research workloads.
A program developed at the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) lab has beaten human opponents in one of the world's most prestigious crossword puzzle competitions.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/23/2022
Meta makes its OPT-175B large language model available to researchers and academia, including both the pre-trained models and the code needed to train and use them.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/03/2022
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announces the first-ever official World Quantum Day.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/14/2022
Over the next three years, spending on AI in the U.S. is expected to grow to $120 billion, and companies failing to take advantage of it will lose a significant competitive advantage, analysts say.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/18/2022
Startup artificial intelligence toolmaker Sway AI launches a no-code AI platform it claims will allow any user to build and maintain AI solutions without writing a single line of code.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/21/2022
Meta announces the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), a new supercomputer it claims will be the fastest in the world once it is fully built out in mid-2022.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/26/2022
Alphabet, this week announced a new integration between Google's Vertex AI managed machine learning platform and AlphaFold, a protein structure prediction system developed by DeepMind.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/25/2022
OpenAI's ground-breaking GPT-3 natural language machine learning models will soon be available through a new service provided on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/16/2021
IBM Research has released a new open source toolkit that focuses on what IBM believes will be the next big area of advancing trust in AI: communicating an AI's "uncertainty."
- By John K. Waters
- 09/07/2021
Researchers at Cambridge Quantum Computing show that quantum computers can learn to reason, even under conditions of partial information and uncertainty.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2021