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39% of Housework Done by Robots in 10 Years

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According to expert opinion, in ten years’ time approximately 39% of all domestic chores will be automated. Researchers from the UK and Japan interviewed 65 artificial intelligence experts and many of them were of the opinion that common household tasks will be done by robots by 2033.

Researchers from the University of Oxford and Japan’s Ochanomizu University asked 29 AI experts from the UK and 36 AI experts from Japan for their forecasts on robots in the home. Experts predicted grocery shopping was likely to see the most automation, while caring for the young or old was the least likely to be impacted by AI. Researchers also found that male UK experts tended to be more optimistic about domestic automation compared with their female counterparts, a situation reversed in Japan, as reported on by the BBC.

Marvelling at the mystery of consciousness through a scientific lens

In the second episode of this 12-part podcast series, Tales of the Synapse, neuroscientist Anil Seth describes his research into consciousness, which he describes as “insurance against falling into a single, disciplinary hole.”

Alongside neuroscientists, Seth’s research group at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, also includes string theorists, mathematicians and psychologists. The team also collaborates with academics in the arts and humanities.

His 2021 book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. begins by challenging the idea that consciousness is beyond the reach of science, and concludes with a look at consciousness in non-human animals, before asking if artificial intelligence will one day become both sentient and conscious.

Meta unveils a new large language model that can run on a single GPU

On Friday, Meta announced a new AI-powered large language model (LLM) called LLaMA-13B that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 model despite being “10x smaller.” Smaller-sized AI models could lead to running ChatGPT-style language assistants locally on devices such as PCs and smartphones. It’s part of a new family of language models called “Large Language Model Meta AI,” or LLAMA for short.

“Unlike Chinchilla, PaLM, or GPT-3, we only use datasets publicly available, making our work compatible with open-sourcing and reproducible, while most existing models rely on data which is either not publicly available or undocumented,” tweeted project member Guillaume Lample.

Planning for AGI and beyond

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans— benefits all of humanity.

If AGI is successfully created, this technology could help us elevate humanity by increasing abundance, turbocharging the global economy, and aiding in the discovery of new scientific knowledge that changes the limits of possibility.

AGI has the potential to give everyone incredible new capabilities; we can imagine a world where all of us have access to help with almost any cognitive task, providing a great force multiplier for human ingenuity and creativity.

Mind-Blowing AI Breakthroughs in Science (Physics, Astrophysics and Math)!

Now, THIS is useful AI — controlling Nuclear Fusion reactions.

#AI #Deepmind #GTC23
In this Video I discuss Recent AI Breakthroughs in Science — in Physics, Astrophysics… and Math!

This video is sponsored by NVIDIA.

GIVEAWAY
Please follow these steps to win NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4,080 GPU (worth 1400$):
Step-1: Please register for NVIDIA GTC using this link: https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/?ncid=ref-inpa-194623
To qualify, registrants need to have a permanent home address in Europe, Middle East, or Africa.
Step-2: Wait for the GTC to start and join the Keynote livestream.
Step-3: Attend GTC sessions. Prizes will be awarded only to those who register for GTC using the link above and attend at least one session (keynote excluded). This giveaway is exclusive to my community — one winner will be selected from my subscribers. Good luck!

Some of GTC Sessions which I will attend:

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AI is helping your company decide who to lay off

AI might not take your job any time soon, but companies are already using it to help them decide who to lay off.

That’s according to a November Capterra survey of 300 US human resources leaders, which found that 98% of respondents plan to use software and algorithms to help them make any layoff decisions in 2023.

While many companies have access to a wide range of employee data — including information on employee attendance, pay, and experience — the HR leaders said “skills” and “performance” data would be most likely to be used in a layoff decision, with 70% of the leaders saying each of these would be considered.

Nvidia predicts AI models one million times more powerful than ChatGPT within 10 years

A million here, times a million there. Pretty soon you’re talking about big numbers. So Nvidia claims for its AI accelerating hardware in terms of the performance boost it has delivered over the last decade and will deliver again over the next 10 years.

The result, if Nvidia is correct, will be a new industry of AI factories across the world and gigantic breakthroughs in AI processing power. It also means, ostensibly, AI models one million times more powerful than existing examples, including ChatGPT, in AI processing terms at least.