Global AI Weekly - Issue 74 - Global AI Community

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Demis Hassabis: from video game designer to Nobel prize winner

Google DeepMind chief believes in benefits of AI but says risks must be taken as seriously as the climate crisis Most 17-year-olds spend their days playing video games, but Britain’s latest Nobel prize winner spent his teenage years developing them. Sir Demis Hassabis, who was jointly awarded the chemistry prize on Wednesday, got his big break in the tech world as co-designer of 1994’s hit game Theme Park, where players create and operate amusement parks.

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Someone claims to have used AI to apply to 2,843 jobs

AI is spamming up job applications. Jason Koebler from 404 Media writes about a person who claimed to have used a free tool, AI Hawk, to apply for 17 jobs in an hour — only stopping when they’d reached 2,843. The tool automatically entered the person’s bio, generated résumés, wrote customized cover letters, and checked […]

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MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering

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Can OpenAI's ChatGPT Beat Humans At Gaming?

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The promise and perils of synthetic data

Is it possible for an AI to be trained just on data generated by another AI? It might sound like a harebrained idea. But it’s one that’s been around for quite some time — and as new, real data is increasingly hard to come by, it’s been gaining traction. Anthropic used some synthetic data to […]

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Research Focus: Week of October 7, 2024

Simplifying secure decision tree training; Improving accuracy of audio content detection; A novel neurosymbolic system for converting text to tables; New video series: AI for Business Transformation; TEE security protections for container workloads. The post Research Focus: Week of October 7, 2024 appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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LLM vs LLM: Codenames Tournament

simonwillison.net

ChatGPT will happily write you a thinly disguised horoscope

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Florence-2: Mastering Multiple Vision Tasks with a Single VLM Model

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PyTorch Foundation Technical Advisory Council Elects New Leadership

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MaskedMimic: Unified Physics-Based Character Control Through Masked Motion Inpainting

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New 3D printing technique creates unique objects quickly and with less waste

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PyTorch Optimizers Aren’t Fast Enough. Try These Instead

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