How to get banned from social media without posting a thing
Mme D finally takes to the Web 2.0 stage and becomes a bad actor
Something for the Weekend, Sir? “Is it in yet?”…
Korea gives a $7.5bn nod to the metaverse and AI projects
Move over K-pop, the K-metaverse is coming
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MIST) has earmarked ₩9 trillion ($7.5bn/ £5.55bn) for projects including AI and the development of a K-metaverse as part of its Digital New Deal programme.…
Baidu’s AI predictions for 2022: Autonomous driving! Quantum computing! Space! Human-machine symbiosis!
Did a computer program tell them to write this?
Baidu Research’s AI-centric “Top 10 Tech Trends in 2022” report has outlined the Middle Kingdom megacorp’s predictions for technology over the coming year.…
Meta says it’s building world’s largest AI supercomputer out of Nvidia, AMD chips
Facebook owner needs 16,000 GPUs, 4,000 Epyc processors – good luck, everyone else
Facebook owner Meta is building the world’s largest AI supercomputer to power machine-learning research that will bring the metaverse to life in the future, it claimed on Monday.…
IBM finally finds a private equiteer willing to purchase Watson Health
As poker players ponder whether tech is ruining their favourite game
In-brief IBM has offloaded healthcare data and analytics assets from its Watson Health business, with private equity firm Francisco Partners hand over around $1bn for the privilege.…
Meta trains data2vec neural network to grok speech, images, text so it can ‘understand the world’
Whatever it takes, Mark
Researchers at Facebook parent’s Meta have trained a single AI model capable of processing speech, images, and text in the hope that these so-called multi-modal systems will power the company’s augmented reality and metaverse products.…
Meta trains data2vec neural network to understand speech, images, text so it can ‘understand the world’
Whatever it takes, Mark
Researchers at Facebook parent’s Meta have trained a single AI model capable of processing speech, images, and text in the hope that these so-called multi-modal systems will power the company’s augmented reality and metaverse products.…
Nvidia pushes crowd-pleasing container support into AI Enterprise suite
As long as you’re running on VMware
Nvidia has rolled out the latest version of its AI Enterprise suite for GPU-accelerated workloads, adding integration for VMware’s vSphere with Tanzu to enable organisations to run workloads in both containers and inside virtual machines.…
AI tool finds hundreds of genes related to human motor neuron disease
Breakthrough could lead to development of drugs to target illness
A machine-learning algorithm has helped scientists find 690 human genes associated with a higher risk of developing motor neuron disease, according to research published in Cell this week.…
UK government backs away from proposals to remove individuals’ rights to challenge AI decision making
Meanwhile, ICO says government should not be choosing its CEO in debate over its future independence
The UK government is backing away from proposals to remove individuals’ rights to challenge decisions made about them by artificial intelligence following an early analysis of its consultation process.…