AI News Weekly – Issue #369: Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating AGI (artificial general intelligence) – Jan 25th 2024

Powered by superai.com In the News Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating AGI Fueling the generative AI craze is a belief that the tech industry is on a path to achieving superhuman, god-like intelligence. theverge.com Sponsor Where AI meets the world: SuperAI | 5-6 June 2024, Singapore Join Edward Snowden, Benedict Evans, Balaji Srinivasan, and…

AI News Weekly – Issue #370: AI companies lose $190 billion – Feb 1st 2024

Powered by global.ntt In the News AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports Following disappointing quarterly earnings results by Microsoft and Google owner Alphabet, Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost a whopping $190 billion in stock market value. futurism.com Sponsor GenAI can transform business operations GenAI presents immense opportunities for innovation, personalized customer…

AI News Weekly – Issue #371: 10 Best AI Art Generators – Feb 8th 2024

Powered by global.ntt In the News 10 Best AI Art Generators (February 2024) At the heart of these generators is a complex process where the AI analyzes the text, understanding context, objects, attributes, and emotions conveyed. unite.ai Sponsor GenAI can transform business operations GenAI presents immense opportunities for innovation, personalized customer experiences and streamlined operations….

AI News Weekly – Issue #372: Sam Altman’s Trillion-Dollar Vision for AI and Chips – Feb 15th 2024

Powered by clkmg.com In the News Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI OpenAI chief pursues investors including the U.A.E. for a project possibly requiring up to $7 trillion wsj.com Sponsor The Future of Work Management Picture a world where workflows are finely tuned, automated to perfection, and seamlessly…

A New AI Paper from UC Berkeley Introduces Anim-400K: A Large-Scale Dataset for Automated End-To-End Dubbing of Video in Japanese and English

There has been a notable discrepancy between the global distribution of language speakers and the predominant language of online material, which is English. Even while English is used in up to 60% of internet information, only 18.8% of people worldwide speak it, and just 5.1% of people use it as their first language. For non-English…

This AI Paper from Apple Unveils AlignInstruct: Pioneering Solutions for Unseen Languages and Low-Resource Challenges in Machine Translation

Machine translation, an integral branch of Natural Language Processing, is continually evolving to bridge language gaps across the globe. One persistent challenge is the translation of low-resource languages, which often need more substantial data for training robust models. Traditional translation models, primarily based on large language models (LLMs), perform well with languages abundant in data…

This AI Paper from China Unveils ‘Activation Beacon’: A Groundbreaking AI Technique to Expand Context Understanding in Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) face a hurdle in handling long contexts due to their constrained window length. Although the context window length can be extended through fine-tuning, this incurs significant training and inference time costs, adversely affecting the LLM’s core capabilities. Current LLMs, such as Llama-1 and Llama-2, have fixed context lengths, hindering real-world applications….

CMU AI Researchers Unveil TOFU: A Groundbreaking Machine Learning Benchmark for Data Unlearning in Large Language Models

LLMs are trained on vast amounts of web data, which can lead to unintentional memorization and reproduction of sensitive or private information. This raises significant legal and ethical concerns, especially regarding violating individual privacy by disclosing personal details. To address these concerns, the concept of unlearning has emerged. This approach involves modifying models after training…

Enhancing Large Language Models’ Reflection: Tackling Overconfidence and Randomness with Self-Contrast for Improved Stability and Accuracy

LLMs have been at the forefront of recent technological advances, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in various domains. However, enhancing these models’ reflective thinking and self-correction abilities is a significant challenge in AI development. Earlier methods, relying heavily on external feedback, often fail to enable LLMs to self-correct effectively. The Zhejiang University and OPPO Research Institute research…

Valence Labs Introduces LOWE: An LLM-Orchestrated Workflow Engine for Executing Complex Drug Discovery Workflows Using Natural Language

Drug discovery is an essential process with applications across various scientific domains. However, Drug discovery is a very complex and time-consuming process. The traditional drug discovery approaches require extensive collaboration among teams spanning many years. Also, it involved scientists from various scientific fields working together to identify new drugs that can help the medical domain….