The truth about teens, social media and the mental health crisis
By npr Published on April 23, 2023 Back in 2017, psychologist Jean Twenge set off a firestorm in the field of psychology. Twenge studies generational trends at San Diego State University. When she looked at mental health metrics for teenagers around 2012, what she saw shocked her. “In all my analyses of generational […]
How Adobe’s bet on non-exploitative AI is paying off
By MIT Technology Review Published on March 26, 2024 Since the beginning of the generative Al boom, there has been a fight over how large Al models are trained. In one camp sit tech companies such as OpenAI that have claimed it is “impossible” to train AI without hoovering the internet of copyrighted […]
HOW GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COULD AFFECT WORK IN THE UK – AND HOW TO MANAGE IT
By Institute for Public Policy Research Published on March, 2024 Technological change is a good thing. It has brought exponential gains to living standards and is the foundation of modern society. Yet unmanaged technological change has always come with risks and disruptions. With another technological wave driven by generative AI on the […]
SandboxAQ Buys Good Chemistry, Melding AI and Quantum Tech for Drug Discovery
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on January 09, 2024 The deal, worth around $75 million, highlights growing commercial demand for new ways of simulating and designing drugs as well as developing new materials Artificial intelligence and quantum company SandboxAQ on Tuesday is expected to announce it acquired Good Chemistry, a deal […]
What Devin Means To Software Companies And Why Every CEO Should Care
By Forbes Published on March 15, 2024 A few days ago Cognition launched Devin, an AI agent that is capable of autonomously working through tasks that typically require a small team of software engineers to accomplish. When it comes to forecasting, Roy Amara reminds us that people tend to overestimate the short-term impact […]
AI Will Suck Up 500% More Power in UK in 10 Years, Grid CEO Says
By Bloomberg Published on March 26, 2024 Fast-developing technologies require increased data-center use. Grid upgrade is one option for the future, John Pettigrew says. Electricity demand from UK data centers will jump sixfold over the next 10 years as a boom in artificial intelligence requires increased computing power, according to the head of National […]
Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video
By NBC News Published on April 2, 2024 Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling Lawyers for a man charged with murder in a triple homicide had sought to introduce cellphone video enhanced by machine-learning software. A Washington state judge overseeing a triple murder […]
We disagree on what open-source AI should mean
By Interconnects Published on April 03, 2024 We’re so early in the process of defining community norms and standards around open LLMs that the goals of the people involved are not clear at all. Open source means a lot of things to a lot of different people, and this is by design. The […]
Apple Faces Legal Protest From Meta, Microsoft, X, Spotify and Match
By The Wall Street Journal Published on March 20, 2024 Five tech companies object to Apple’s new app store policies related to payment for services. Meta Platforms, Microsoft, X, Spotify and Match Group filed legal petitions protesting Apple’s app store policies, objecting to how the tech giant has complied with a federal court […]