Artificial Intelligence news

Company lists highly paid machine-learning project manager role while actors and executives at odds over future of AI in HollywoodAs actors and writers strike over fair compensation and protections from the encroachment of artificial intelligence, Netflix has listed a position for a machine learning product manager that will compensate somewhere between $300,000 and $900,000 per year. According to the Screen Actors Guild (Sag-Aftra), 87% of the guild’s actors make less than $26,000 per yea

It’s been just two years since Hangzhou, China-based Unitree introduced the Go1, a $2,700 quadruped robot. And since then, the Go1 has had a huge influence over the small quadruped research market, due to its unique combination of performance, accessibility, and being (as legged robots go) super cheap. Unitree has just announced the Go2, a new version that manages to both be significantly better and super duper cheap—it’s faster and more agile and now even includes a lidar, but

Tech companies say Frontier Model Forumwill focus on ‘safe and responsible’ creation of new modelsFour of the most influential companies in artificial intelligence have announced the formation of an industry body to oversee safe development of the most advanced models.The Frontier Model Forum has been formed by the ChatGPT developer OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google, the owner of the UK-based DeepMind. Continue reading...

Our world is grappling with technological advances, shifts in geopolitical and economic power, globalisation backlash and climate change
Today we face four megatrends that are driving rapid and disruptive changes, and which will greatly affect our nation, the region and the world.These pre-date Covid and are likely to continue well after the pandemic. They are technological advances, shifts in geopolitical and economic power, backlash against globalisation and climate change.
The first, the tech

Company’s $56.2bn revenue beat Wall Street expectations but slowing growth for cloud service Azure proved to be a dampenerMicrosoft shares fell on Tuesday as the company reported a slowdown in growth of parts of its business, despite the company’s various investments in AI including its partnerships with OpenAI and Meta.The tech firm beat Wall Street expectations with $56.2bn in revenue, but its latest earnings report showed slowing revenue growth for its cloud service Azure. Revenue