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Larry Page Once Called Elon Musk a 'Specieist' Over Musk's AI Concerns
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Elon Musk and Larry Page argued about the threats machines pose to humans at Musk's 44th birthday.

3 min read, listed 1 day ago in reddit/singularity/Larry Page accused Elon Musk of being a "specieist" which broke their friendship

S’pore to triple AI talent pool to 15,000 as part of national strategy update: DPM Wong | The Straits Times
www.straitstimes.com

Developments have put advanced AI tools with near-human-like intelligence in the hands of anyone with an Internet connection. Read more at straitstimes.com.

3 min read, listed 1 day ago in reddit/artificial/Singapore to triple AI talent pool to 15,000 as part of national strategy update

Study Finds ChatGPT Outperforms Physicians in High-Quality, Empathetic Answers to Patient Questions
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5 min read, listed 11 hours ago in reddit/ArtificialInteligence/Doctor interested in AI specifically how it will effect medicine - are there any good books to read on this?

DeepMind Founder Told Elon Musk AI Could Destroy Mars Colonies: NYT
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Elon Musk was left dumbfounded after DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis told him that AI could destroy his colonies on Mars, per The New York Times.

2 min read, listed 23 hours ago in Google Alerts — Daily Digest

Meta AI chief Yann LeCun skeptical about AGI, quantum computing
www.cnbc.com

Meta chief scientist Yann LeCun thinks the hype over AGI and quantum computing are misplaced.

3 min read, listed 1 day ago in Google Alerts — Daily Digest

23andMe confirms hackers accessed data of 6.9 million users
www.foxbusiness.com

Genetic testing company 23andMe confirmed Monday that hackers stole personal data from 6.9 million customers, or roughly half of all users.

2 min read, listed 23 hours ago in Google Alerts — Daily Digest

Joan Donovan, Former Harvard disinformation scholar, says she was pushed out of her job after college faced pressure from Facebook | CNN Business
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5 min read, listed 14 hours ago in reddit/singularity/Meta, IBM, and over 50 other companies and organizations form the AI Alliance, a coalition to work on open source AI, including to share tech and reduce risks, the group also will look to increase the number of open source AI models.

Autonomous Excavator Builds Stone Wall Algorithmically | Hackaday
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In a move that aims to further the circular economy of the construction industry, researchers at ETH Zurich have let an autonomous excavator loose on a big pile of boulders and reclaimed concrete. …

1 min read, listed 1 day ago in Center for Data Innovation — New In Data: The EU AI Act Is a Cautionary Tale in Open-Source AI Regulation

Brain Implants Helped 5 People Recover From Traumatic Injuries - The New York Times
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People with chronic problems after falls and car crashes scored better on cognition tests after getting a brain implant, a new study found.

2 min read, listed 13 hours ago in MIT Technology Review — Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech

Police arrest man in connection with alleged Te Whatu Ora mass privacy breach of Covid vaccination data - NZ Herald
www.nzherald.co.nz

A 56yr old man is charged with accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes.

4 min read, listed 1 day ago in Google Alerts — Daily Digest

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Techmeme: Asana reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $166.5M, vs. $164.1M est., but warns of macroeconomic headwinds; ASAN drops 10%+ (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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MedBright AI Announces Election of Two US Healthcare Experts to Board of Directors and Approval of New Share Class - Investor X - Webflow Ecommerce website template
www.medbright.ai | 5 min read | listed 1 hour ago in reddit/ArtificialInteligence/MedBright AI (MBAI.c) Unveils MedMatrix: Groundbreaking AI Analytics Platform and Welcomes Esteemed Healthcare Leaders to Board
Techmeme: Q&A with IBM Quantum Director Jerry Chow on the state of quantum computing, IBM's 10-year quantum roadmap, the IBM Quantum Heron processor, qubits, AI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
www.techmeme.com | 1 min read | listed 1 hour ago in Techmeme
Techmeme: Cisco debuts new security tools, including Cisco AI Assistant for Security, which can understand event triage, root cause analysis, policy design, and more (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
www.techmeme.com | 1 min read | listed 1 hour ago in Techmeme
Northvolt collaborates with ex-Apple AI scientist, Siddharth Khullar, to enhance electric-vehicle battery tech | by Multiplatform.AI | Dec, 2023 | Medium
medium.com | 3 min read | listed 2 hours ago in Artificial Intelligence - Topic feed @ Medium
Techmeme: Source: VC firm OpenView laid off most of its staff and does not plan to make new investments, after raising $570M in March 2023, 30% shy of its $800M target (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
www.techmeme.com | 1 min read | listed 3 hours ago in Techmeme
Techmeme: Dutch manufacturer of chipmaking gear ASM International plans to invest ~$324M in a US headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, and hire 500 people for the facility (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
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Elon Musk's AI startup — X.AI — files to raise $1 billion
www.cnbc.com | 3 min read | listed 3 hours ago in reddit/singularity/Elon Musk’s AI startup — X.AI — files to raise $1 billion in fresh capital
Techmeme: Microsoft says it will offer three additional years of Windows 10 security updates as a paid upgrade after the OS' end-of-support date on October 14, 2025 (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
www.techmeme.com | 1 min read | listed 4 hours ago in Techmeme
Elon Musk’s AI startup X.AI files to raise $1 billion in funding to advance AI for the good of humanity - TechStartups
techstartups.com | 2 min read | listed 4 hours ago in Tech Startups
Techmeme: iOS 17.2 RC brings Qi2 wireless charging support to iPhone 13 and iPhone 14-series devices; Apple hasn't said if the phones will charge at 15W on Qi2 chargers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Microsoft Bets Big on UK AI with $3.2bn Investment
www.techrepublic.com | 6 min read | listed 4 hours ago in TechRepublic - Artificial Intelligence
Techmeme: Elon Musk's xAI has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1B in an equity offering, saying it has raised nearly $135M from four investors since November 29 (Hayden Field/CNBC)
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Techmeme: Gecko Robotics, which makes robots that inspect infrastructure for industries including energy and defense, has raised $100M at a post-money valuation of $633M (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
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Brain Imaging Reveals Altered Brain Connectivity in Autism - Neuroscience News
neurosciencenews.com | 5 min read | listed 5 hours ago in Neuroscience News - Machine Learning
Elon Musk’s xAI company is seeking up to $1 billion in investments - The Verge
www.theverge.com | 1 min read | listed 5 hours ago in Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Firm X.AI is Looking to Raise Up to $1B in Equity Offering
www.coindesk.com | 1 min read | listed 5 hours ago in Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence makes gripping of prosthetic hands more intuitive
techxplore.com | 5 min read | listed 5 hours ago in Phys.org - Machine Learning & AI news
Meta and IBM launch ‘AI Alliance’ to promote open-source AI development | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com | 5 min read | listed 6 hours ago in Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
AI can tell which chateau Bordeaux wines come from with 100% accuracy | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com | 3 min read | listed 6 hours ago in reddit/ArtificialInteligence/AI can tell which chateau Bordeaux wines come from with 100% accuracy
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Popular research

[1412.6980] Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization
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www.microsoft.com | 9 min read | listed 1 day ago in reddit/MachineLearning/[D] What’s hot for Machine Learning Research in 2024?
Latest updates on Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm part2(Quantum Computing) | by Monodeep Mukherjee | Dec, 2023 | Medium
medium.com | 3 min read | listed 2 days ago in Artificial Intelligence - Topic feed @ Medium
LLM and GNN: How to Improve Reasoning of Both AI Systems on Graph Data | by Anthony Alcaraz | Dec, 2023 | Medium
medium.com | 4 min read | listed 2 days ago in Machine Learning - Topic feed @ Medium
[2310.19909] Battle of the Backbones: A Large-Scale Comparison of Pretrained Models across Computer Vision Tasks
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[2309.11523] RMT: Retentive Networks Meet Vision Transformers
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[1603.04467] TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
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AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination | Nature Methods
www.nature.com | 14 min read | listed 9 hours ago in reddit/MachineLearning/[R] AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination
[2311.18805] Unnatural Error Correction: GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
arxiv.org | 1 min read | listed 2 days ago in reddit/ArtificialInteligence/GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
[2312.00752] Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
arxiv.org | 2 min read | listed 1 day ago in reddit/MachineLearning/Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
One-step Diffusion with Distribution Matching Distillation
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[1711.02257] GradNorm: Gradient Normalization for Adaptive Loss Balancing in Deep Multitask Networks
arxiv.org | 1 min read | listed 1 day ago in reddit/MachineLearning/[R] loss weighting - theoretical guarantees?
[1404.1100] A Tutorial on Principal Component Analysis
arxiv.org | 1 min read | listed 1 day ago in Lobsters: ai - Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
[2312.01117] Paved2Paradise: Cost-Effective and Scalable LiDAR Simulation by Factoring the Real World
arxiv.org | 2 min read | listed 13 hours ago in reddit/MachineLearning/[R] Paved2Paradise: Cost-Effective and Scalable LiDAR Simulation by Factoring the Real World
An inductive knowledge graph embedding via combination of subgraph and type information | Scientific Reports
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Investigating the effect of textural properties on CO2 adsorption in porous carbons via deep neural networks using various training algorithms | Scientific Reports
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Back-propagation optimization and multi-valued artificial neural networks for highly vivid structural color filter metasurfaces | Scientific Reports
www.nature.com | 9 min read | listed 23 hours ago in Google Alerts — Daily Digest
[2312.00785] Sequential Modeling Enables Scalable Learning for Large Vision Models
arxiv.org | 1 min read | listed 11 hours ago in reddit/MachineLearning/[R] Sequential Modeling Enables Scalable Learning for Large Vision Models. Transformers are trained on "Visual Sentences" (1.64B Images, 420B Image tokens). The same model can perform Inpainting, Rotation, Lighting, Semantic Segmentation, Edge Detection, Pose Estimation and More
[2306.00937] STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft
arxiv.org | 1 min read | listed 2 days ago in reddit/artificial/In the near future, will AI be able to play multiplayer games with us like two friends playing a game?
[2310.00229] Combining Spatial and Temporal Abstraction in Planning for Better Generalization
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