AI

“It’s totally nuts,” says Mustafa Suleyman (pictured), CEO of Inflection AI referring to the huge interest in AI. Suleyman has just raised $1.3 billion with investment coming from Microsoft, Nvidia, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt the former Google CEO. The total amount it has raised so far is $1.525 billion. In May, Inflection launched a conversational chatbot called Pi. The ...

A guy with impeccable AI credentials has dampened down some of the more over-heated expectations about the technology. Yann LeCun, the French holder of a Turing Prize, said that claims that AI will threaten humans are “preposterously ridiculous“. The idea that we “turn on a super-intelligent system that is going to take over the world within minutes”, said LeCun, “that’s ...

The EU has passed a draft bill on AI regulation which could, after further legislative processes, become law in 2026.  The draft categorises AI as either “unacceptable,” “high,” “limited” or “minimal.”  Unacceptable examples are  AI that manipulates vulnerable groups of people, which leads to predictive policing systems and which employs biometric categorisation using gender, race, ethnicity and religion, among other ...

The UK has hosted the first AUKUS AI and autonomy trial, with the aim of driving artificial intelligence into military use. Service personnel, scientists and engineers from the three AUKUS nations (Australia, United Kingdom, United States) combined for the exercise taking place on the Salisbury Plains. It saw “AI-enabled assets” involved in a collaborative swarm to detect and track military ...

2023 shipments of AI server shipments will grow 38.4% y-o-y, says TrendForce, with a total of 1.2 million AI servers equipped with GPUs, FPGAs and ASICs shipped this year. AI servers constitute nearly 9% of the total server shipments and are expected to be 15% of the market by 2026. Between 2022 and 2026  AI server shipments are expected to ...

In the opening keynote at Google’s  annual developer conference on Wednesday the term ‘AI’ was mentioned 140 times in two hours, says CNET. Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple collectively mentioned the term “AI” almost 200 times in their latest earnings calls, up from less than 40 mentions a year ago. Clearly, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft are much more involved ...

The government has asked regulators, including the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), to think about how the development and deployment of AI can be supported against five overarching principles: safety, security and robustness; appropriate transparency and explainability; fairness; accountability and governance; and contestability and redress. The review seeks to understand how foundation models are developing and produce an assessment of ...

OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, is reported to have raised $300 million at a valuation of $27-29 billion. VCs said to gave invested include: Tiger Global, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and K2 Global which has only ine partner – Ozi Amanat. MS already has a €10 billion investment in the company. It is reported that outside ...

Tomorrow, the House of Lords Artificial Intelligence in Weapons Systems Committee will hold its third public evidence session on the current state of artificial intelligence in weapons, and how it will impact warfare. The Committee will hear from: Dr Kenneth Payne, Professor of strategy at King’s College London Dr Keith Dear, director of artificial intelligence at Fujitsu James Black, assistant ...

Lam Research has examined the potential for the use of AI in process development for chip fabrication. In the Lam study, machine and human participants competed to create a targeted process development recipe at the lowest cost, weighing a variety of factors associated with test batches, metrology and overhead expenses. The study concluded that while humans excelled in solving challenging and ...