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TLDR Apple quietly acquired Canadian AI startup DarwinAI, adding generative AI technology to its arsenal. This acquisition may result in the integration of new features in iOS 18 and Xcode software. The company aims to catch up in the generative AI market after falling behind rivals in recent years. Apple acquired DarwinAI, a Canadian AI … Read more Apple’s new AI acquisition could be in the next iPhone features.
Summary of Article TLDR: Police are investigating explicit fake images of high school students generated by AI at Richmond Burton High School in Illinois. The list of victims includes 30 students and three teachers at the school. The fake naked photos were shared and circulated at school, and the FBI has previously warned about the … Read more Police probe AI-generated explicit images of high school students.
Key Elements of U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown’s Concerns about AI Election Targeting of Black and Brown Voters TLDR: – U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are concerned about the potential misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) in elections. – They have sent a letter to the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland … Read more Rep. Brown cautious of AI’s election manipulation on minority voters.
TLDR: Key points from the article: Docking spacecraft autonomously is a challenging task that requires precise maneuvers. Researchers are implementing an AI system similar to ChatGPT to enable self-docking spacecraft. In the quest to enable spacecraft to manage docking procedures autonomously, researchers are exploring the use of an artificial intelligence system similar to ChatGPT. Docking … Read more AI system like ChatGPT may enable self-docking spacecraft in the future.
TLDR: 1. Cerebras Systems has launched a breakthrough AI wafer-scale chip, WSE-3, with double the performance of its predecessor, the WSE-2. 2. The WSE-3 powers the CS-3 supercomputer, allowing training of AI models with up to 24 trillion parameters. Key Elements: Cerebras Systems has introduced its Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3), a revolutionary AI wafer-scale … Read more Cerebras unveils 900,000-core 125 PetaFLOPS processor for AI tasks.
TLDR: The US State Department commissioned a report on AI that suggests it could lead to human extinction. The risks identified in the report include bioweapons, cyber-attacks, and autonomous robots. AI may take your job in the somewhat near future — and it may eventually take human life, according to a new report commissioned by … Read more Report commissioned by US State Department warns AI may cause extinction.
TLDR: Nearly half of American voters believe deepfakes will have a negative impact on the 2024 presidential election. A majority of respondents struggle to differentiate between AI-generated images and human-created images. A recent poll of 2,000 registered American voters revealed that 43% believe AI-generated content will negatively impact the outcome of the 2024 election. The … Read more Deepfake AI: Shaping the 2024 election?
TLDR: DARPA is funding key AI projects focused on human-machine teams, AI reasoning, and autonomous AIs that follow ethics principles. Important AI programs include REMA, ASIMOV, Access in AI and Human-Machine Symbiosis, and Air Intelligence Reinforcements. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is requesting increased spending in its most recent budget request for key … Read more DARPA fuels big AI research with hefty funding this year.
TLDR: Elon Musk predicts that AI will likely be smarter than ‘all humans combined’ by 2029. The predictions about AI reaching human-level intelligence by 2029 come from futurist Ray Kurzweil, who made a conservative estimate about when AI will match any person. Musk, on the other hand, claims that AI will likely be smarter than … Read more Elon Musk: AI to surpass human intelligence by 2029!