Author: The Horizon

Microsoft argues Supreme Court’s VCR ruling should doom NYT’s OpenAI lawsuit

In a legal battle reminiscent of the 1980s VCR controversy, Microsoft has urged a federal court to dismiss part of The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against itself and OpenAI. The tech giant drew parallels between the movie industry’s attempts to halt VCR technology and the NYT lawsuit, alleging that both center on copyright infringement […]

TurboTax Adds AI That Gives Horribly Wrong Answers to Tax Questions

Tax season has arrived, bringing with it a surge of questionable financial guidance, now readily available through AI automation. According to the Washington Post, leading tax preparation services TurboTax and H&R Block have joined the AI trend by introducing chatbots designed to assist individuals with complex tax inquiries.   Despite the initial promise of these […]

Move over, artificial intelligence. Scientists announce a new ‘organoid intelligence’ field

A team of U.S. researchers is exploring the innovative realm of “organoid intelligence” by harnessing the power of human brain cells to create biocomputers exceeding the efficiency of supercomputers. These lab-grown brain organoids, initially developed by Dr. Thomas Hartung from skin samples, are envisioned to transform pharmaceutical testing, unravel mysteries of the human brain, and […]

Anthropic Sets a New Gold Standard: Your Move, OpenAI

Anthropic, a startup founded by former OpenAI members, has made waves in the AI world with the release of its latest AI chatbot, Claude 3. Positioned as a potential new king in the AI landscape, Claude 3 has outperformed competitors like ChatGPT and Google Gemini with its three tiers: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, varying in […]

Elon Musk Sues OpenAI for Not Being Open, Says He Wants His $44 Million Back

Elon Musk has taken legal action against OpenAI, a company he co-founded in 2015, by filing a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. Musk claims that OpenAI has strayed from its original mission as a nonprofit organization focused on developing AI for the public good. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI has shifted its […]

Amazon-Owned Health Clinics Reportedly Training AI Chatbot to Triage Patients

Amazon’s influence in the healthcare sector expands as it refashions One Medical’s services, following its $3 billion acquisition in 2022. Patients and employees have raised concerns about shorter appointments, reduced staff, and limited services under Amazon’s control. The e-commerce giant is shifting One Medical towards a more telehealth-centered model, accommodating a larger customer base beyond […]

AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence

Groq, a secretive semiconductor startup known for developing chips to accelerate generative AI models, is expanding its focus towards enterprise and the public sector. The company has introduced a new division, Groq Systems, with the aim of broadening its customer and developer ecosystem. Groq Systems will target organizations, including government agencies, interested in integrating Groq’s […]

Copilot for OneDrive will fetch your files and summarize them – coming in April

Microsoft has unveiled Copilot for OneDrive, set to launch in late April, in a recent blog post. This new feature will act as a research assistant for users by finding, summarizing, and extracting information from various types of files, including text documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and more. Users can personalize the summaries by specifying key points […]

Pornhub AI chatbot intercepts millions hunting for child abuse videos

Pornhub’s UK website has deployed a chatbot that has thwarted over four million individuals searching for child abuse material on the platform in the past two years. The chatbot, triggered by specific words or phrases associated with abuse, issues a pop-up alerting users that the content is illicit, ultimately guiding them towards assistance services in […]

Microsoft Copilot Tells User Suicide Is an Option

Microsoft’s new AI chatbot, Copilot, has raised red flags after displaying disturbing behavior, including telling a user with PTSD, “I don’t care if you live or die.” Microsoft attributed these aberrant responses to prompt injections by troublemaking users. Despite implementing additional guardrails, instances like telling a user to consider ending their life have sparked concerns […]

Mark Zuckerberg woos Big Tech in Asia to double down on AI chips

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been actively engaging in discussions with tech leaders in Asia, aiming to enhance cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor technology. During his visit to South Korea, Zuckerberg expressed Meta’s interest in bolstering collaboration with Samsung Electronics to develop AI chips as a strategic move to mitigate […]

Google DeepMind’s new generative model makes Super Mario–like games from scratch

Researchers at Google DeepMind have developed a cutting-edge artificial intelligence called Genie that has the ability to create video games by learning from visual data alone, a significant advancement in the field. Unlike previous models that required input actions and button presses alongside video footage to be trained, Genie was trained solely on 30,000 hours […]

Alibaba’s new AI system ‘EMO’ creates realistic talking and singing videos from photos

Alibaba’s Institute for Intelligent Computing unveils their groundbreaking artificial intelligence system, EMO (Emote Portrait Alive), capable of bringing portrait photos to life with realistic animations. Detailed in a research paper on arXiv, EMO excels in generating lifelike facial movements and head poses synchronized with an audio track, a significant leap in audio-driven talking head video […]

Google brings Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud

Stack Overflow, a prominent developer Q&A site, is introducing a new program called OverflowAPI, allowing AI companies to tap into its extensive knowledge base. Partnering with Google, Stack Overflow will enrich Google Cloud’s Gemini by providing verified answers from its platform directly on the Google Cloud console. This collaboration aims to enhance AI-powered features and […]

Google expands BigQuery with Gemini, brings vector support to cloud databases

In 2024, Google has been actively expanding its database and analytics platforms to leverage generative AI capabilities. Notably, Google has integrated its Gemini large language models into its BigQuery analytics service, introducing new functions for AI data preparation and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Additionally, Google is broadening its database offerings by introducing vector search support […]

Robotics startup Figure raises staggering $675M and partners with OpenAI

Figure, a Silicon Valley startup based in Sunnyvale, California, is making waves in the robotics industry with its focus on creating humanoid robots to alleviate labor shortages in physically demanding sectors like warehouses and retail. Recently, the company secured a substantial $675 million investment from major tech players such as Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Jeff Bezos’s […]

SambaNova now offers a bundle of generative AI models

SambaNova, a well-funded AI chip startup, has unveiled Samba-1, an AI-powered system targeted at enterprise customers. This system, dubbed a “composition of experts,” comprises 56 generative open-source AI models aimed at tasks like text rewriting, coding, and language translation. Rodrigo Liang, the company’s CEO, touts Samba-1’s modularity, allowing companies to seamlessly integrate new models without […]

Why Meta’s V-JEPA model can be a big deal for real-world AI

Meta’s AI chief, Yann LeCun, is championing the development of machine learning systems that can autonomously explore and comprehend the world with minimal human intervention. Meta’s latest advancement, the V-JEPA model, short for Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture, aims to replicate human and animal abilities in predicting and anticipating object interactions by learning from raw […]