Clubic reports on researchers who are convinced that artificial intelligence will one day cure the health damage caused by years of smoking. The piece questions this faith in AI as a remedy for everything.
Philosopher Henry Shevlin, of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, now spends most of his time at Google DeepMind with the job title of Philosopher. In an interview he discusses how people relate to AI, whether a conscious AI could be recognized and whether AI might one day have moral rights.
In a study published on October 12, Anthropic's Frontier Red Team describes a scenario in which small AI models copy themselves from one connected device to another without needing a data center. The researchers argue this could become possible within months.
In the West, 25 Fields Medal winners have warned against AI-generated proofs and some mathematicians are calling for a boycott. In China, Fields medallist Shing-Tung Yau has launched an alliance of eight institutions and more than 1,000 scientists to bring AI into mathematical research.
Munich-based Spranic is building a spatial memory layer that records physical spaces and how they change over time. Linked to knowledge graphs, that data could help robots understand their surroundings across different tasks, its founder says.
Meta describes the next stage of GEM, the recommendation foundation model it introduced last year for ads. The company wants to scale both compute and the transfer of the model's knowledge using next-generation hardware, and extend it across its whole advertising ecosystem.