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The bar seems to be pretty high. But it’s not like ChatGPT is perfect.

Artificial intelligence technology has drawn massive fanfare from investors this year amid the growing popularity of ChatGPT, which launched in November and has helped its maker, OpenAI, nab a staggering $29 billion valuation. Alphabet’s Bard announcement came one day before Microsoft held a press conference to tout an investment in OpenAI that has helped shares of the Silicon Valley staple surge nearly 20% over the past month. “This is just the first step on the AI front,” Ives told clients in a note after the event, reiterating an outperform rating for shares.

Despite the apparent flub, Bank of America analysts have said they’re bullish on Google’s AI strategy, writing in a note to clients that Google is “well prepared with years of investment” in the technology to capture a significant part of the market, particularly since its search engine has a large distribution advantage, as compared to Microsoft. Nevertheless, the analysts warn safety issues including result inaccuracy or bias, disinformation and the potential use of models for harm are key risks.

“AI is the most profound technology we are working on today,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said as he announced the new chatbot this week.

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Humans are innately able to reason about the behaviors of different physical objects in their surroundings. These physical reasoning skills are incredibly valuable for solving everyday problems, as they can help us to choose more effective actions to achieve specific goals.

Some computer scientists have been trying to replicate these reasoning abilities in (AI) , to improve their performance on . So far, however, a reliable approach to train and assess the physical reasoning capabilities of AI algorithms has been lacking.

Cheng Xue, Vimukthini Pinto, Chathura Gamage, and colleagues, a team of researchers at the Australian National University, recently introduced Phy-Q, a new designed to fill this gap in the literature. Their testbed, introduced in a paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, includes a series of scenarios that specifically assess an AI agent’s physical reasoning capabilities.

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With a big assist from artificial intelligence and a heavy dose of human touch, Tim Cernak’s lab at the University of Michigan has made a discovery that dramatically speeds up the time-consuming chemical process of building molecules that will be tomorrow’s medicines, agrichemicals or materials.

The discovery, published in the Feb. 3 issue of Science, is the culmination of years of chemical synthesis and data science research by the Cernak Lab in the College of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry.

The goal of the research was to identify key reactions in the synthesis of a molecule, ultimately reducing the process to as few steps as possible. In the end, Cernak and his team achieved the synthesis of a complex alkaloid found in nature in just three steps. Previous syntheses had taken between seven and 26 steps.

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Foresight Biotech & Health Extension Meeting sponsored by 100 Plus Capital.

Michael Levin, Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology.
Bioelectric Networks: Taming the Collective Intelligence of Cells for Regenerative Medicine.

Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor in the Biology department and Vannevar Bush Chair, serves as director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. Recent honors include the Scientist of Vision award and the Distinguished Scholar Award. His group’s focus is on understanding the biophysical mechanisms that implement decision-making during complex pattern regulation, and harnessing endogenous bioelectric dynamics toward rational control of growth and form. The lab’s current main directions are:

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A team of researchers have come up with a machine learning-assisted way to detect the position of shapes including the poses of humans to an astonishing degree — using only WiFi signals.

In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, first spotted by Vice, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University came up with a deep learning method of mapping the position of multiple human subjects by analyzing the phase and amplitude of WiFi signals, and processing them using computer vision algorithms.

“The results of the study reveal that our model can estimate the dense pose of multiple subjects, with comparable performance to image-based approaches, by utilizing WiFi signals as the only input,” the team concluded in their paper.

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Is there any strategy or alliance too complex for its ruthless intelligence? Meta AI made a groundbreaking announcement with the launch of CICERO — the first-ever AI (artificial intelligence) capable of winning at Diplomacy, a multiplayer strategy game that calls for mutual trust, compromise, and teamwork. This marks a significant milestone in AI evolution.

South Korean Go champion Lee Se-dol has retired after being beat by DeepMind’s AlphaGo software. He told Yonhap news agency his decision was influenced by the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) “cannot be defeated.”

An entity that cannot be defeated

“With the debut of AI in Go games, I’ve realized that I’m not at the top even if I become the number one through frantic efforts,” Se-dol told Yonhap. “Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated.”

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In case you haven’t heard, artificial intelligence is the hot new thing.

If anything, this breakneck pace is only accelerating. Five years from now, the field of AI will look very different than it does today. Methods that are currently considered cutting-edge will have become outdated; methods that today are nascent or on the fringes will be mainstream.

What will the next generation of artificial intelligence look like? Which novel AI approaches will unlock currently unimaginable possibilities in technology and business?

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“This is just the first step on the AI front…as [the] AI arms race takes place among Big Tech.”

Right on the heels of Google announcing Artificial Intelligence chatbot Bard, Microsoft has beefed up its search engine Bing with the latest AI sensation, OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

“Search has remained the same since the last major inflection,” Microsoft corporate VP Yusuf Mehdi said at the event on Tuesday announcing the update, adding that “the user experience is the same as 20 years ago.”

For almost two decades, Google’s search engine market has had a highly successful run, facing almost zero competition from rivals. That could all change with the new upgraded Bing and Edge browser that has integrated the same technology created by the developers of ChatGPT.

Unlike Bard, which is currently used only by trusted testers\.

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