Humanoid robots are now working in warehouses
Humanoid robots are starting to work side by side with actual people in warehouses for the first time. The latest model, Apollo, is an all-electric robot made by an Austin-based startup called Apptronik. It is 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds and can lift 55 pounds. Apollo is designed for live action in […]
Open source models race to beat GPT-4 on coding tasks
Two open source models, WizardCoder 34B by Wizard LM and CodeLlama-34B by Phind, have been released in the last few days. Both models are based on Code Llama, a large language model (LLM) developed by Meta. Wizard LM claims that WizardCoder 34B outperformed GPT-4, ChatGPT-3.5, and Claude-2 on HumanEval, a benchmark for evaluating the coding […]
Google Flights releases feature to help travelers save money
Google Flights has introduced a new function that will assist passengers in determining the best time to book their tickets. The new option, “Cheapest Time to Book,” leverages historical trend data to show consumers when rates have historically been lowest for their chosen destination and dates. For example, a customer looking for tickets from New […]
Museums using holograms, AI and VR to connect with the past
Museums that focus on racial violence and antisemitism are using holograms, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality to allow visitors to have simulated conversations with Holocaust survivors and hear the words of enslaved people. The use of this technology is aimed at fighting bigotry and raising awareness of these dark chapters in history. One example is […]
Reskilling becomes increasingly crucial in workplaces
According to the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard’s Digital Reskilling Lab and the BCG Henderson Institute, reskilling, the practice of educating a person on activities beyond their previous skill set or job description, is becoming increasingly crucial. A McKinsey study indicated that most firms that are implementing AI expect a bit more than 20% […]
Otter.ai partners Slack to provide AI-powered meeting assistant
Otter.ai, a speech-to-text transcription service, has announced a partnership with Slack to bring its AI-powered meeting assistant to the popular workplace chat app. The integration will allow users to take notes, capture key takeaways, and assign action items during meetings, all within Slack. Otter will also send reminders before meetings and automatically share notes and […]
Platypus 2 70B AI LLM tops HuggingFace Open LLM leaderboard
A new open source large language model (LLM) called Platypus 2 has topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard. Platypus 2 is a 70B parameter model that has been fine-tuned on a carefully curated dataset of STEM and logic questions. It is able to achieve state-of-the-art performance on a variety of benchmarks, including question answering, summarization, […]
Demand for AI jobs quadruples
The demand for artificial intelligence (AI) jobs has quadrupled since the beginning of this year, according to data from Indeed. This has led to a surge in salaries for AI professionals, with some companies offering six-figure salaries for entry-level positions. The growth in demand for AI jobs is being driven by the increasing adoption of […]
AI content to dominate online landscape by 2030
Experts at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies (CIFS) are predicting that AI-generated content could make up 99.9 percent of all internet content by 2030. This would represent a major shift in the way we consume and interact with information online. Timothy Shoup, a member of CIFS states that “in the scenario where GPT-3 ‘gets […]
Kidgeni introduces youngsters to generative AI
A new web application called Kidgeni is introducing youngsters to the wonders of generative AI in a creative and playful way. Developed by tech professional Matt Lock, Kidgeni allows children to generate images, stories, and more from text prompts. Kidgeni uses a combination of Stable Diffusion and a collaborative startup partner to power its AI […]
