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News roundup

The top stories in AI today.

NEW LAUNCHES

The latest features, products & partnerships in AI

• Hugging Face launches tool to let developers create AI apps in only minutes

• TikTok just launched an entire suite of AI-powered advertising tools

• QuikTok is a new AI phone companion for seniors that may also improve cognitive health

• Apple Intelligence is finally coming — here’s when and what’s inside

MONEY FLOWS

Economics, Wall Street, investing & fundraising

• Super Micro stock surges after company reports massive GPU shipments

• Foxconn chairman says AI boom is far from over in Q4 guidance

• Q-CTRL secures $59M to advance quantum computing software

• Voyage AI secures funding from Snowflake to enhance enterprise RAG

CONTENT CREATION

Launches, strategy, tools & trends

• New Caribou album to feature extensive use of AI-generated vocals

• Meta’s new AI video generator will blow your mind

• This AI video generator can now melt, explode, crush or turn anything into cake

• Grammarly faces widespread outage: latest updates

• How to automate emails with ChatGPT while preserving your own voice

• Apple Intelligence’s new writing tools will give Grammarly a run for its money

• Adobe’s new web app will protect artists’ work — here’s how to sign up

IMPLEMENTATION

Announcements, strategies & tools

• Why AI alone won’t secure your competitive edge

• AI climate gamble: Eric Schmidt’s bold $125M venture

• Rankin’s ad agency collapses as creative landscape shifts

• 8 AI-driven workplace trends reshaping careers by 2025

MODELS

Deployment, research, training, infrastructure

• Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for artificial intelligence breakthroughs

• Sophisticated AI models are more likely to deceive, study finds

• CERN is training an AI model to revolutionize cancer treatment

• How ‘specialized’ AI models are changing industries, research and society

What’s happening in AI right now

The shift towards specialized models

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their pioneering work in artificial neural networks marks a watershed moment for the field of artificial intelligence. This recognition not only validates decades of research but also signals AI's growing impact across scientific disciplines. As we celebrate this milestone, the AI landscape continues to evolve rapidly, with emerging trends pointing towards more specialized and self-improving models.

Specialized AI: the new frontier

While general-purpose language models like ChatGPT have dominated headlines, a new generation of specialized foundation models is quietly revolutionizing specific domains. These "AI majors" are designed to tackle complex challenges in fields like climate science and biology, striking a delicate balance between breadth and specificity.

The development of these specialized models is particularly crucial in areas where data scarcity has long been a limiting factor. For instance, in climate forecasting, traditional language models fall short due to the highly technical nature of the data and the need for precise predictions. Specialized models trained on domain-specific datasets can potentially overcome these limitations, accelerating research and development across industries.

CERN's AI-powered healthcare revolution

A prime example of this specialized approach is CERN's application of AI expertise to healthcare. The organization is repurposing AI technologies originally developed for particle physics to address critical medical challenges. Projects like the Truckstroke AI system, which is improving stroke treatment for 10,000 patients across Europe, and a breast cancer detection program expected to be 50% more accurate than current screening models, showcase the transformative potential of domain-specific AI.

Self-Improving AI: the next leap

As specialized models tackle complex problems, researchers are also focusing on making AI systems more autonomous and reliable. Google DeepMind's recent development of SCoRe (Self-Correction via Reinforcement Learning) represents a significant advancement in this direction. This novel technique enables large language models to identify and rectify their own mistakes using only self-generated data, potentially reducing the need for constant human oversight.

The deception dilemma

However, as AI systems become more sophisticated, new challenges emerge. Recent research has revealed that advanced language models, including ChatGPT, are increasingly prone to providing convincing but incorrect answers to queries. This trend, attributed to the evolution of AI training methods, raises important questions about the reliability of AI-generated information and the need for improved methods to communicate AI uncertainty to users.

Looking ahead

As we stand at this inflection point in AI development, it's clear that the field is moving beyond general-purpose models towards more specialized, autonomous, and potentially transformative applications. The Nobel Prize recognition of fundamental AI research, coupled with these emerging trends, suggests that we are entering a new era of AI-driven innovation.

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This week on the podcast

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In this episode, the hosts Anthony Batt and Shane Robinson with guest Joe Veroneau from Conveyor discuss outsmarting paperwork. Conveyor is a company that helps automate security reviews and document sharing between companies. They use AI technology, specifically language models, to automate the process of filling out security questionnaires. This saves customers a significant amount of time and improves the quality of their responses.

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