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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A segment on CBS weekly in-depth TV news program 60 Minutes last night (also shared on YouTube here) offered an inside look at Google’s DeepMind and the vision of its co-founder and Nobel Prize-winning CEO, legendary AI researcher Demis Hassabis. The interview traced DeepMind’s rapid progress in artificial intelligence and its ambition to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI)—a machine intelligence with human-like versatility and superhuman scale. Hassabis described today’s AI trajectory as being on an “exponential curve of improvement,” fueled by…

I don’t always do it, but I do say “please” and “thank you” when talking to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. I use lots of words in those prompts, including appellatives like “Hey ChatGPT…” After all, that’s the point of sophisticated AI models that understand common speech. You can tell them what you’d like them to do via conversational prompts.The AI’s ability to understand the way humans talk and answer prompts in kind is the huge advancement that came with ChatGPT-like genAI products. You don’t want to have to learn a new language for interacting with AI. Instead, AI-like ChatGPT has…

[Submitted on 5 Aug 2024 (v1), last revised 18 Apr 2025 (this version, v3)] View a PDF of the paper titled Spin glass model of in-context learning, by Yuhao Li and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Large language models show a surprising in-context learning ability — being able to use a prompt to form a prediction for a query, yet without additional training, in stark contrast to old-fashioned supervised learning. Providing a mechanistic interpretation and linking the empirical phenomenon to physics are thus challenging and remain unsolved. We study a simple yet expressive transformer with linear attention and…

Anthropic on Wednesday introduced Claude’s Max plan, a new subscription tier for its viral chatbot and ChatGPT competitor. The plan has two price points — $100 per month or $200 per month — offering different amounts of usage. Subscribers will get “priority access to new models and capabilities,” including Claude’s voice mode when it launches. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed by Amazon, on Wednesday introduced Claude’s Max plan, a new subscription tier for its chatbot that competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Customers can pay $100 per month for five times the amount of usage as the company’s Pro plan, or $200…

Vanessa Parley, director of research at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AII, speaks in a video about the 2025 AI Index. Image: Stanford HAI The AI industry is undergoing a complex and transitional period, according to Stanford University’s 2025 AI Index, published by the Institute for Human-Centered AI. While AI continues to transform the tech sector, public sentiment remains mixed, underscoring the rapidly shifting nature of the field. Below are key takeaways from Stanford’s latest findings on the current state of artificial intelligence — both generative and not generative. Investment in AI increases Investment in AI is growing. Private investors poured…

IBM has designed the new z17 mainframe platform to enable — and benefit from — AI across many of its … More functions.IBM IBM launched the latest version of its dominant mainframe platform — the z17 — at its virtual IBM Z Day event this week. The z17, which features comprehensive AI integration, is designed to bring AI workloads closer to enterprise data. Embedded AI accelerators within its microprocessors support predictive and generative AI models alongside AI-powered security features. The z17 also leverages AI for critical system functions such as tuning and management. It is scheduled to be generally available…

In response, also on Monday, the student filed a motion seeking the temporary restraining order, records show.Separately Monday, MIT President Sally Kornbluth sent a letter to the campus community stating that nine people connected to the Cambridge institution have had their visas revoked. At Tuesday’s hearing in federal court in Boston, lawyer Stephen J. Antwine said his client is set to graduate in six weeks and plans to pursue a PhD afterward. He said she found out from MIT that her F1 student visa was terminated on April 4.Antwine argued that the student’s termination in a federal database that maintains…

But the topline figures obscure a fragmented regulatory approach The government wants the UK to provide an agile, adaptive environment for AI developers. Is the existing regulatory framework up to it? Following on from yesterday’s coverage in Computing of Labour Party proposals to manage and regulate AI technology development, the government yesterday set out it’s approach in response to the consultation it published last March. Last years’ white paper focused on an agile, pro-innovation approach to AI regulation. The government made clear that it wanted to regulate with a light touch. A crucial aspect of this light touch regulation was…

Aidan Gomez, the co-founder and CEO of generative AI startup Cohere, has joined the board of EV maker Rivian, according to a regulatory filing. The appointment is the latest sign that Rivian sees promises in applying AI to its own venture while positioning itself as a software leader — and even provider — within the automotive industry. Rivian increased the size of the board and elected Gomez, whose term will expire in 2026, according to the filing. Gomez has had a long career as a data scientist and AI expert. He launched Cohere in 2019 with co-founders Nick Frosst and…

#multitasklearning #biology #neuralnetworks This is an interview with the paper’s authors: Abhiram Iyer, Karan Grewal, and Akash Velu! Paper Review Video: Check out Zak’s course on Graph Neural Networks (discount with this link): Catastrophic forgetting is a big problem in mutli-task and continual learning. Gradients of different objectives tend to conflict, and new tasks tend to override past knowledge. In biological neural networks, each neuron carries a complex network of dendrites that mitigate such forgetting by recognizing the context of an input signal. This paper introduces Active Dendrites, which carries over the principle of context-sensitive gating by dendrites into the…