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Current AIs only have the IQ level of a cat, asserts Google DeepMind CEO

The CEO of Google DeepMind has compared the IQ levels of contemporary artificial intelligence and domestic cats. However, AI is progressing fast, with some huge cash and compute investments propelling it forward.

Tom’s Hardware

The hypocrisy of AI doomerism

Wannabe Cassandras warning of AI's potential for human extinction are some of the biggest champions of the industry

Salon

Google flashes everyone — new Gemini Flash 1.5 takes on GPT-4o

Google is bringing out a new Gemini family model called Flash 1.5 that is not as powerful as Pro but significantly faster and impressive at multimodal chat.

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AI optimists crowd out doubters on the TED stage

AI is a "new digital species" that will perfect science and deliver free education, speakers said.

Axios

OpenAI, Meta Push Artificial Intelligence Closer to Human-Like Thinking

Meta's upcoming AI can plan your trip! This leap in AI could be a step towards human-like thinking machines (AGI).

International Business Times UK

Mustafa Suleyman: the new head of Microsoft AI with concerns about his trade

The son of a Syrian taxi driver and English nurse torn between AI’s potential and problems

The Guardian - UK

OpenAI fires back at Elon Musk lawsuit with 'facts' showing he 'told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress'

"We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon’s claims."

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Google's Gemini AI image generation plans to return 'in a few weeks'

Google stated during MWC 2024 that it plans to enable Gemini's AI image generation again "in a few weeks."

Android Central

What next for the AI revolution? Inside Google DeepMind, the world’s biggest AI company

Everyone laughed politely when I asked whether AI might, in the end, kill us all — everyone apart from one researcher from a US-based thinktank who told me that, as a pessimist, he believes there is about a “20 per cent chance that AI poses an existential threat to life.”

Evening Standard

Google launches Gemini, its 'newest and most capable AI model' — and a full-frontal assault on OpenAI's GPT-4

Google's Gemini is its newest AI model which has been built for multimodality, scalability and perfromance.

Tom’s Hardware

Google says new AI model Gemini outperforms ChatGPT in most tests

Gemini is being released in form of upgrade to Google’s chatbot Bard, but not yet in UK or EU

The Guardian - UK

Larry Page Accused Elon Musk Of Being A 'Specieist' Who Prefers Humans Over Digital Life Forms

At Elon Musk's 44th birthday party in 2015, Larry Page and the Tesla CEO argued about AI so severely that it ended their friendship.

International Business Times UK

What Elon Musk has said about Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientist at the center of OpenAI’s leadership upheaval

“The key moment was recruiting Ilya Sutskever” to OpenAI, Musk said of breaking his friendship with Google cofounder Larry Page.

Fortune

Hunt for fraudsters in London ramped up using artificial intelligence, says minister as UK hosts AI summit

Exclusive: AI is linking millions of pieces of Government data to help to track down conmen and other fraudsters

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: ‘secretive’ Israel defence exports, bombshell testimony in Trump trial, AI risks debated

Greens say figures about arms deals show Australia has ‘unaccountable’ system; former fixer Michael Cohen testifies that former president inflated wealth

The Guardian - UK

Hope or horror? The great AI debate dividing its pioneers

CEO of DeepMind is ‘not a pessimist’ but warns of threat from AI and says we must be active in shaping ‘a middle way’

The Guardian - UK

AI risk must be treated as seriously as climate crisis, says Google DeepMind chief

Demis Hassabis calls for greater regulation to quell existential fears over tech with above-human levels of intelligence

The Guardian - UK

The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut review – genius and madness in the shadow of the atomic bomb

The Chilean author’s assured fictionalised portrait of the visionary Hungarian scientist who contributed to the Manhattan Project and laid the foundations of modern computing is darkly intelligent and feverishly propulsive

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The Guardian - UK

Team behind AI program AlphaFold win Lasker science prize

Award for work on shapes of proteins raises prospect of AI research earning a Nobel for first time

Fortune

How Elon Musk lost a friend over AI: Google co-founder Larry Page just 'refused to hang out' after the Tesla CEO stole his top worker

After Musk tried to sabotage Google’s acquisition of DeepMind, he poached one of Page’s most valuable scientists to OpenAI with a $1.9 million salary.

The Guardian - UK

‘I hope I’m wrong’: the co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it

From synthetic organisms to killer drones, Mustafa Suleyman talks about the mind-blowing potential of artificial intelligence, and how we can still avoid catastrophe

The Guardian - UK

AI for all? Google ups the ante with free UK training courses for firms

US tech giant starts charm offensive on artificial intelligence with basic courses to help firms understand and exploit emerging phenomenon

Fortune

Bill Gates, along with Eric Schmidt and Nvidia, just minted another A.I. unicorn in a massive $1.3 billion funding round

The maker of the Pi chatbot plans one of the world's biggest A.I. supercomputers. Previous investors include Will.i.am.

Tom’s Guide

Google's new Gemini AI could beat ChatGPT — here's why

Google is investing months of work and millions of dollars to beat its rival ChatGPT

TechRadar

Google says its secret AI weapon could eventually outsmart ChatGPT

Google's DeepMind lab will equip the AI with reinforcement learning so it can solve tough problems by itself.

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