đ Device lets you talk silently; 4 new amazing robot skills; Laser in war now?; AI realizes it's being tested & more
Is China a climate saint or villain? Can LLM help create bioweapons?
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Impressive 1-min demo: a new wearable device lets one silently ask questions to a computer by articulating words internally and receiving answers through skull vibrations (twitter video)
With AlterEgo, users can surf the internet, ask questions, and receive answers through skull vibrations, without speaking aloud.
Cognition AI just demoed "Devin", an AI that can perform work usually done by well-paid software engineers (Wired)
Any danger of people using LLMs to create biological weapons? OpenAI built an expert panel to find out and found the answer. (OpenAI blog)
Sam Altman told some Korean reporters that GPT-5 is expected to exceed expectations
Hold your breath! Business Insider shared: on track to put out GPT-5 sometime mid-year in 2024, likely during summer
Anthropic, developer of AI LLM Claude, was founded by ex-OpenAI key employees, has raised more than $7 billion in a year, in part from Google and Amazon
The technology that underpinned ChatGPT was developed largely by Dario Amodei (now CEO and co-founder of Anthropic) and others who had worked at OpenAI before leaving to create Anthropic.
Dario Amodei said there was a 10 to 25% chance that A.I. technology could destroy humanity. đ€šÂ (NYT)
Il viennent de lancer par ailleurs Claude 3, et annonce des "niveaux de compréhension et de fluidité quasi humains sur des tùches complexes", non loin de ceux d'une intelligence artificielle générale (AGI) rapporte le JDN
Also: Anthropicâs Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested. (ArsTechnica)
Meta proposes a new AI approach (Fast Company)
Aussi, voir la réponse de notre Yann LeCun national, à l'objection "If a foundation model was worth much, it's a sure bet it wouldn't be open."
Demis Hassabis elaborates on the future of AI, once we have AI agents, that is AI that can act and do stuff, not just answer questions (Wired)
For what itâs worth, the consensus prediction at forecast aggregator Metaculus sees âthe first general AI system be devised, tested, and publicly announcedâ as happening in December 2031. Just two years ago, the forecast was 2057.
C'est mignon... "Minouche Shafik, who is now the president of Columbia University, said: âIn the past, jobs were about muscles. Now theyâre about brains, but in the future, theyâll be about the heart.â" (NYT)
on verra, mais l'IA sera trĂšs douĂ©e pour simuler les Ă©motions Ă la perfection, prĂ©voir la bouderie imprĂ©visible, easy.Â
le dernier rempart sera certainement les rapports en face à face, dans le monde réel, notamment les rapports charnels
Klarna, a fintech company, launched its AI assistant, in its first month it was able to handle 66% of customer service chats. Thatâs 2.3M chats which wouldâve needed 700 full-time agents.
đ The incredible pace at SpaceX
Last week, SpaceX's Starship launched successfully and reached orbital velocity. Forget Mars, that launch itself largely validates its capability as an expendable rocket (that we won't try to recover)
Watch take-off here, and here for Starship re-entering Earth's atmosphere, with views through the plasma.
đ€ Robotics department
Tesla's Optimus: see its progress in one 9 months in that 5-sec video
Following the announcement of its partnership with OpenAI, tech startup Figure has released a new clip of its humanoid robot, dubbed Figure 01, chatting with an engineer as it puts away the dishes.
The 2-min demo is an absolute must-watch
Tasks the robot can do:
describe its visual experience
plan future actions
reflect on its memory
explain its reasoning verbally
Phoenix : High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics
Another must-see video
You've seen a ton of videos of humanoid robots â but this one feels different. It's Sanctuary's Phoenix bot, with "the world's best robot hands," working totally autonomously at near-human speeds â much faster than Tesla's or Figure's robots.
Phoenix's hands are hydraulically actuated as opposed to the electric motors in others like Optimus and the Figure 01.
"it's the only technology that gives us a combination of three factors that are very important: obviously precision, but there's also speed and strength."
Watch an AI Robot Dog master an Agility Course Itâs Never Seen Before: 1-min video
This is very different from the usual Boston Dynamics videos which are impressive but typically involve humans painstakingly programming every step or training on the same highly controlled environments over and over.
One of the most impressive aspects of the research is the fact the robot was trained in simulation.
Microsoft Copilot best use cases so far (JDN)
Votre prochain entretien dâembauche pourrait se faire avec un chatbot. Ătes-vous prĂȘt ? (L'ADN)
De plus en plus de demandeurs dâemploi se retrouvent Ă dialoguer avec une intelligence artificielle. Mais la rĂ©sistance s'organise.
Chinese car maker BYD launches a 420km range electric car for under $15,000.
CATL, a Chinese company that is the worldâs leading battery storage maker, prepares to halve the cost per kWh of its lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells by mid-2024.
Elon Muskâs German Tesla plant suffers close to $1 billion in damages after attack by the âdumbest eco-terrorists on Earthâ
Wow, ces chiffres traduisent la rĂ©volution du solaire photovoltaĂŻque (PV):Â
Jusque-là le chiffre le plus cité était que depuis les années 70, à chaque fois que la production cumulée de panneaux solaires doublait, leur coût par watt de puissance baissait de 25%
Mais en y regardant de plus prÚs, depuis 2007, ce pourcentage de baisse des coûts est plutÎt de 44%, avec un doublement de la production totale cumulée tous les 2 ans derniÚrement (source)
Cette baisse, qui a de quoi continuer, couplée à celle des batteries, va permettre la transition énergétique, comme je l'explique dans cet article et celui-ci et là en vidéo
More than 2 billion metric tonnes of rare earth metals were just discovered in the US, dwarfing Chinaâs 44 million tonne reserves. (WSJ)
Sinopec, Chinaâs oil refining and distributing giant, announced peak gasoline consumption in that country last year, in 2023, due to the massive electrification of ground transportation
So, Is China a climate saint or villain?, The Economist answers
Novo Nordisk, le champion de l'Ozempic et du Wegovy (mĂ©dicaments anti-obĂ©sitĂ©): son succĂšs est tel qu'il va permettre au PIB du Danemark de croĂźtre de 2.1% au lieu du 1% prĂ©vu.Â
IntĂ©ressant : ASML, "the only supplier of âExtreme ultraviolet lithography machines used in the semiconductor industry": entreprise nĂ©erlandaise, mais son futur CEO est français, et 40% de son staff n'est pas nĂ©erlandais
WhatsApp-based AI maths tutor improves studentsâ scores in Ghana
Video of another very intricate, complicated task robots are learning to do autonomously: suturingÂ
An analysis of 5M freelancing jobs that shows what jobs are being replaced by AI
DragonFire: How lasers could revolutionize the way militaries counter enemy missiles and drones (CNN)
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On bat des records de température année aprÚs année, voici le détail de la solution qui pourrait nous permettre de gagner du temps (Tomas Pueyo)
Avec "Le Chat" et Mistral Large, le français Mistral impressionne. Voici en quoi. Le co-fondateur répond aux questions qui fùchent (JDN, Le Monde, The Economist)
The Mindblowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers Instantly (Wired)
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