JARVIS-Inspired Grok 2 Answer Any User Query
Plus: Apple unveils a public demo of its ‘4M’ AI model, Amazon hires Adept’s top executives to build an AGI team.
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In today’s edition:
🧠 JARVIS-inspired Grok 2 aims to answer any user query
🍏 Apple unveils a public demo of its ‘4M’ AI model
🛒 Amazon hires Adept’s top executives to build an AGI team
🧠 Knowledge Nugget: How We Humans Will Deal With a Superintelligence by
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JARVIS-inspired Grok 2 aims to answer any user query
Elon Musk has announced the release dates for two new AI assistants from xAI. The first, Grok 2, will be launched in August. Musk says Grok 2 is inspired by JARVIS from Iron Man and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and aims to answer virtually any user query. This ambitious goal is fueled by xAI's focus on "purging" LLM datasets used for training.
Musk also revealed that an even more powerful version, Grok 3, is planned for release by the end of the year. Grok 3 will leverage the processing power of 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, potentially pushing the boundaries of AI performance even further.
Why does it matter?
These advanced AI assistants from xAI are intended to compete with and outperform AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT by focusing on data quality, user experience, and raw processing power. This will significantly advance the state of AI and transform how people interact with and leverage AI assistants.
Apple unveils a public demo of its ‘4M’ AI model
Apple and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have released a public demo of the ‘4M’ AI model on Hugging Face. The 4M (Massively Multimodal Masked Modeling) model can process and generate content across multiple modalities, such as creating images from text, detecting objects, and manipulating 3D scenes using natural language inputs.
While companies like Microsoft and Google have been making headlines with their AI partnerships and offerings, Apple has been steadily advancing its AI capabilities. The public demo of the 4M model suggests that Apple is now positioning itself as a significant player in the AI industry.
Why does it matter?
By making the 4M model publicly accessible, Apple is seeking to engage developers to build an ecosystem. It could lead to more coherent and versatile experiences, such as enhanced Siri capabilities and advancements in Apple's augmented reality efforts.
Amazon hires Adept’s top executives to build an AGI team
Amazon is hiring the co-founders, including the CEO and several other key employees, from the AI startup Adept.CEO David Luan will join Amazon's AGI autonomy group, which is led by Rohit Prasad, who is spearheading a unified push to accelerate Amazon's AI progress across different divisions like Alexa and AWS.
Amazon is consolidating its AI projects to develop a more advanced LLM to compete with OpenAI and Google's top offerings. This unified approach leverages the company's collective resources to accelerate progress in AI capabilities.
Why does it matter?
This acquisition indicates Amazon's intent to strengthen its position in the competitive AI landscape. By bringing the Adept team on board, Amazon is leveraging its expertise and specialized knowledge to advance its AGI aspirations.
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Knowledge Nugget: How We Humans Will Deal With a Superintelligence
In this article,
discusses how people with different worldviews and belief systems might react to the development of a superintelligent AI system. He conducts a thought experiment, imagining how those with theistic, humanistic, dataist, and animist perspectives would respond to an "intelligence explosion" where AI surpasses human intelligence in a concise timeframe.He concludes that:
Theists would see it as God's will, accepting their fate passively.
Humanists would try to control or merge with the AI, fearing the loss of human significance.
Dataists eagerly seek to connect and merge with the AI, seeing humans as just data.
Animists would be relatively indifferent, believing everything, including AI, has a spiritual essence.
Why does it matter?
People's beliefs and cultural backgrounds significantly influence how they react to transformative technological developments like AGI. Understanding these influences might help the AI community shape goals, ethical frameworks, and strategies effectively.
What Else Is Happening❗
📺 YouTube lets you remove AI-generated content resembling face or voice
YouTube lets people request the removal of AI-generated content that simulates their face or voice. Under YouTube's privacy request process, the requests will be reviewed based on whether the content is synthetic, if it identifies the person, and if it shows the person in sensitive behavior. (Link)
🖼️ Meta swaps ‘Made with AI’ label with ‘AI info’ to indicate AI photos
Meta is refining its AI photo labeling on Instagram and Facebook. The "Made with AI" label will be replaced with "AI info" to more accurately reflect the extent of AI use in images, from minor edits to the entire AI generation. It addresses photographers' concerns about the mislabeling of their photos. (Link)
📉 Deepfakes to cost $40 billion by 2027: Deloitte survey
Deepfake-related losses will increase from $12.3 billion in 2023 to $40 billion by 2027, growing at 32% annually. There was a 3,000% increase in incidents last year alone. Enterprises are not well-prepared to defend against deepfake attacks, with one in three having no strategy. (Link)
🤖 Anthropic launches a program to fund the creation of reliable AI benchmarks
Anthropic is launching a program to fund new AI benchmarks. The aim is to create more comprehensive evaluations of AI models, including assessing capabilities in cyberattacks and weapons and beneficial applications like scientific research and bias mitigation. (Link)
🌐 US’s targeting of AI not helpful for healthy development: China
China has criticized the US approach to regulating and restricting investments in AI. Chinese officials stated that US actions targeting AI are not helpful for AI's healthy and sustainable development. They argued that the US measures will be divisive when it comes to global governance of AI. (Link)
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