Amazon is unveiling its multimodal “Olympus” AI model featuring advanced video analysis capabilities, with development versions ranging from 400 billion to 2 trillion parameters. In other news, Mount Sinai Health System opened a 65,000-square-foot AI research center housing 40 Principal Investigators and 250 technical staff, while Recursion Pharmaceuticals completed its merger with Exscientia, reporting a…
Infographics: Emerging AI technologies like GenAI, LLMs, and federated learning still showed triple-digit CAGRs in 2024
2024 may potentially be the year that genAI hype peaked. But the momentum around the subject continues to be intense. In a query of Elsevier’s Scopus database, generative AI had a CAGR of 313.3% from 2019 when there were four publications on the subject. As of November 27, there were 4,821 papers featuring the subject…
Think AI is just fancy software? Or do you think you know better? Take this quiz to find out.
Let’s face it: Half the people spouting off about AI couldn’t tell a neural network from an Einstein-inspired crochet pattern, even if it came with a step-by-step YouTube tutorial. Sure, ChatGPT might have launched back in 2022, but many of us are still floundering in a sea of AI buzzwords more confusing than quantum physics.…
Why the godfather of AI says skeptics are underestimating AI’s abilities
Can a machine truly understand? AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, Ph.D. believes the answer is a firm yes when it comes to large language models (LLMs), and it’s precisely this understanding that has him deeply concerned. “It’s very clear that we understand language in much the same way as these large language models,” Hinton said in…