Author: Advanced AI Bot

AI-powered interviewing platform Ribbon opens up for general availability this week. The start-up—boasting $8 million in funding from Radical Ventures, with participation from Social Leverage, Cadenza Ventures, and GD1—was co-founded in 2023 by an Amazon AI alum and a former head of people ops pro.The pair is betting that intelligent voice AI in the interview process will benefit both recruiters and candidates with a faster and more candidate-friendly alternative to traditional hiring, which often require significant human effort to sift through and screen potential candidates, and can leave job seekers waiting weeks for responses, if any are provided at all.“I…

[Submitted on 14 Oct 2022 (v1), last revised 10 Feb 2023 (this version, v3)] View a PDF of the paper titled The Debate Over Understanding in AI’s Large Language Models, by Melanie Mitchell and David C. Krakauer View PDF Abstract:We survey a current, heated debate in the AI research community on whether large pre-trained language models can be said to “understand” language — and the physical and social situations language encodes — in any important sense. We describe arguments that have been made for and against such understanding, and key questions for the broader sciences of intelligence that have arisen…

The blog post below is partly adapted from the book’s preface.‍We are excited to announce the launch of AI Safety, Ethics and Society, a new textbook and online course. The course aims to provide an introduction to how current AI systems work, why many experts are concerned that continued advances in AI could pose severe societal-scale risks, and how society can manage and mitigate these risks. The textbook and other course materials are available to read online here and are forthcoming in print with Taylor & Francis. We will be running an online course based on the textbook from July-October…

The news: Synchron, an Australian-founded competitor to Elon Musk’s Neuralink, is building a foundational AI model trained on brain signals.The AI, called Chiral, was showcased at Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose. It’s built to work with Apple’s Vision Pro headset and Nvidia’s Holoscan medical AI platform.The context: Synchron is a leader in the nascent brain-computer-interface (BCI) industry. It creates devices that read brain activity and translate that into commands for a nearby computer.Its “stentrode” BCI has already been implanted in over 10 patients who, suffering from afflictions like motor neurone disease, are unable to use their hands. A video…

A new paper co-authored by the former CEO of Google has outlined a future where AI training data centers could be blown up by foreign nations.Eric Schmidt, along with Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and the Center for AI Safety’s Dan Hendrycks, warned that “destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict.”The paper lays out the concept of Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), modeled on nuclear mutual assured destruction (MAD), where any “aggressive bid for unilateral AI dominance is met with preventive sabotage by rivals.”This could involve espionage, cyberattacks, or kinetic strikes…

C3.ai recently announced a strategic alliance with PwC to drive AI-powered business transformations but saw its share price fall 10% over the past month. This decline comes amid broader market volatility driven by concerns over new tariffs and economic uncertainty, which have affected overall investor sentiment. Despite widespread gains in technology stocks such as Tesla and Alphabet, weakened investor confidence in AI-related stocks and cautious corporate outlooks may have influenced C3.ai’s share performance. The company’s partnership with PwC targets sectors like banking and manufacturing, signaling a focus on growth, while the market faces broader economic pressures. Be aware that C3.ai…

Nvidia claimed that if Chinese companies choose not to purchase alternative Nvidia products, it could lose $400 million in sales of the affected chips it has scheduled for China this quarter. (Photo: Robert Galbraith/Reuters) A potential shortage of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chips is emerging in China, threatening to disrupt the country’s rapid AI expansion efforts and exposing fault lines in global semiconductor supply chains. H3C, one of China’s largest server makers and a key OEM partner for Nvidia, issued a warning this week to clients, citing “significant uncertainties” in the international supply chain for the H20 processor, according to…

AI agents extend large language models (LLMs) by interacting with external systems, executing complex workflows, and maintaining contextual awareness across operations. Amazon Bedrock Agents enables this functionality by orchestrating foundation models (FMs) with data sources, applications, and user inputs to complete goal-oriented tasks through API integration and knowledge base augmentation. However, in the past, connecting these agents to diverse enterprise systems has created development bottlenecks, with each integration requiring custom code and ongoing maintenance—a standardization challenge that slows the delivery of contextual AI assistance across an organization’s digital ecosystem. This is a problem that you can solve by using Model…

Stability AI speaks of a “multi-view video generation with 3D camera control”. This refers to an AI model that can convert photos into 3D models. These in turn can be viewed from all sides, enabling an immersive view. Stable Virtual Camera is still a research preview. Stability AI uses a diffusion model to create the 3D videos. These are AI models in which images are generated point by point using noise. A single photo or up to 32 images can be used as input. The generated videos are available with different camera paths, such as “dynamic”, “spiral”, “dolly zoom”, “pan”…

If you are interested in building your very own local deep research AI assistant, you might be interested in Google’s Gemma 3 AI models. They represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, offering a compact yet robust solution tailored for local deployment. Derived from the larger Gemini series, these models combine high performance with a strong emphasis on privacy and accessibility. Featuring multimodal capabilities, support for 140 languages, and the ability to generate structured outputs, Gemma 3 is engineered to meet diverse AI research assistant and productivity demands. These models are open source and optimized for local use, allowing you…