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Futurist Keynote: Linda Grasso, July 19
Sponsored Post Technology can be miraculous. But only if it’s applied and used responsibly and sustainably.…
People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they’re sentient, says CEO
Plus: Activists fight for EU ban on AI lie detectors, and is the age prediction tool used by Meta accurate?
In brief Numerous people start to believe they’re interacting with something sentient when they talk to AI chatbots, according to the CEO of Replika, an app that allows users to design their own virtual companions.…
Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same
Paid-for Copilot trained on FOSS code final straw for Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit focused on free and open source software (FOSS), said it has stopped using Microsoft’s GitHub for project hosting – and is urging other software developers to do the same.…
Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok, stat
Social media giant reportedly plans to get ‘leaner,’ needs boatloads of graphics chips
Comment Facebook parent Meta has reportedly said it needs to increase its fleet of datacenter GPUs fivefold to help it compete against short-form video app and perennial security concern TikTok.…
Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not
Gun-detecting AI outfits want to help while root causes need tackling
Comment More than 250 mass shootings have occurred in the US so far this year, and AI advocates think they have the solution. Not gun control, but better tech, unsurprisingly.…
Manufacturers realize quantifiable gains – Analytics, cloud, edge intelligence & 5G
It’s time for factories to get smart
Sponsored Feature It’s no surprise that people have grown more familiar with the intricacies of epidemiology over the last two years due to the pandemic, but the fact that supply chains and manufacturing have made it onto the mainstream news is perhaps more unexpected.…
Cerebras sets record for ‘largest AI model’ on a single chip
Plus: Yandex releases 100-billion-parameter language model for free, and more
In brief US hardware startup Cerebras claims to have trained the largest AI model on a single device powered by the world’s largest Wafer Scale Engine 2 chip the size of a plate.…
Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer
Did they get GitHub Copilot to write it?
Amazon at its re:Mars conference in Las Vegas on Thursday announced a preview of an automated programming assistance tool called CodeWhisperer.…
Train once, run anywhere, almost: Qualcomm’s drive to bring AI to its phone, PC chips
Software toolkit offered to save developers time, effort, battery power
Qualcomm knows that if it wants developers to build and optimize AI applications across its portfolio of silicon, the Snapdragon giant needs to make the experience simpler and, ideally, better than what its rivals have been cooking up in the software stack department.…
Samsung invests in ML chip startup NeuReality
Coining the term hardware-based ‘AI hypervisor’ has to be worth several million, dontcha think?
The venture capital arm of Samsung has cut a check to help Israeli inference chip designer NeuReality bring its silicon dreams a step closer to reality.…