IIT Bhubaneswar Develops Hybrid Technology Using AI For Weather Forecasting

IIT Bhubaneswar Develops Hybrid Technology Using AI For Weather Forecasting

Home Technology IIT Bhubaneswar Develops Hybrid Technology Using AI For Weather Forecasting The studies were carried out over the complex terrain of Assam. Bhubaneswar: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bhubaneswar has developed a hybrid technology integrating the output from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model into a deep learning (DL) model to enhance prediction … Read more

Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

Most tech moguls hope to sell artificial intelligence to the masses. But Mark Zuckerberg is giving away what Meta considers to be one of the world’s best AI models for free. Meta released the biggest, most capable version of a large language model called Llama on Monday, free of charge. Meta has not disclosed the … Read more

Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works

Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works

A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it needed to make adjustments to its bold new generative AI search feature. The episode highlights the risks of Google’s aggressive drive to commercialize generative AI—and also the treacherous and fundamental limitations of that technology. Google’s … Read more

Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing

Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing

When ChatGPT was released in November 2023, it could only be accessed through the cloud because the model behind it was downright enormous. Today I am running a similarly capable AI program on a Macbook Air, and it isn’t even warm. The shrinkage shows how rapidly researchers are refining AI models to make them leaner … Read more

AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside

AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside

Last year, the team began experimenting with a tiny model that uses only a single layer of neurons. (Sophisticated LLMs have dozens of layers.) The hope was that in the simplest possible setting they could discover patterns that designate features. They ran countless experiments with no success. “We tried a whole bunch of stuff, and … Read more

Astra Is Google’s ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT

Astra Is Google’s ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT

Pulkit Agrawal, an assistant professor at MIT who works on AI and robotics, says Google’s and OpenAI’s latest demos are impressive and show how rapidly multimodal AI models have advanced. OpenAI launched GPT-4V, a system capable of parsing images in September 2023. He was impressed that Gemini is able to make sense of live video—for … Read more

It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype

It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype

Folks, when dogs talk, we’re talking Biblical disruption. Do you think that future models will do worse on the law exams? If nothing else, this week proves that the rate of AI progress isn’t slowing at all. Just ask the people building these models. “A lot of things have happened—internet, mobile,” says Demis Hassabis, cofounder … Read more

OpenAI’s Chief AI Wizard, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company

OpenAI’s Chief AI Wizard, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company

Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and chief scientist at OpenAI, has left the company. The former Google AI researcher was one of the four board members who voted in November to fire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, triggering days of chaos that saw staff threaten to quit en masse and Altman ultimately restored. Altman confirmed Sutskever’s departure Tuesday … Read more

Perplexity’s Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search

Perplexity’s Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search

Aravind Srinivas credits Google CEO Sundar Pichai for giving him the freedom to eat eggs. Srinivas remembers the moment seven years ago when an interview with Pichai popped up in his YouTube feed. His vegetarian upbringing in India had excluded eggs, as it had for many in the country, but now, in his early twenties, … Read more

Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future

Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future

This week a startup called Cognition AI caused a bit of a stir by releasing a demo showing an artificial intelligence program called Devin performing work usually done by well-paid software engineers. Chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini can generate code, but Devin went further, planning how to solve a problem, writing the code, and then … Read more