This Week in AI The big happenings in the world of AI this week were dominated by Google’s I/O conference. It’s a sign of the changing times that a Google conference would announce a lot of AI services. I think the launch of ChatGPT has certainly shaken up the landscape and forced companies like Google […]
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This Week in AI ‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work. Geoffrey Hinton, known as one of the ‘Godfathers of AI’, has resigned from his position at Google to express his concerns about the potential risks of AI technology. Hinton’s work has directly contributed to developing technologies such as
This week in AI UK to invest in AI by creating a taskforce. The UK is trying to get on the AI bandwagon and not be left behind. It has pledged £100 million to establish a Foundation Model Taskforce. The team will develop AI that ideally makes the country “globally competitive”. Call me a cynic
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It was a bit of a slow week regarding new hardware and software, but plenty going on in the world of AI. Facebook’s Meta AI has announced its Segment Anything project. Segmentation is a fundamental part of computer vision and is the ability to identify which image pixels belong to an object. Using AI for
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Raspberry Pi and Sony announce collaboration to bring AI to Raspberry Pi This is potentially a massive announcement. Sony, the company that already manufactures the Raspberry Pi has announced that they have made a “strategic” investment in Raspberry Pi Ltd to bring edge AI to the Raspberry Pi! “Our goal is to provide new value
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