An Oakland, California, school district is the first in the US to transition to a 100% electric school bus system with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.
Modern student transportation platform Zum has provided Oakland Unified School District with a fleet of 74 electric school buses and bidirectional chargers. Utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) supplied 2.7 megawatts (MW) of load to Zum’s Oakland EV-ready facility. The fleet will be managed through Zum’s AI-enabled technology platform.
“Oakland becoming the first in the nation to have a 100% electric school bus fleet is a huge win for the Oakland community and the nation as a whole,” said Kim Raney, executive director of transportation at Oakland Unified School District. “The families of Oakland are disproportionately disadvantaged and affected by high rates of asthma and exposure to air pollution from diesel fuels.”
As AI systems have grown in sophistication, so has their capacity for deception, according to a new analysis from researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr Peter Park, an AI existential safety researcher at MIT and author of the research, tells Ian Sample about the different examples of deception he uncovered, and why they will be so difficult to tackle as long as AI remains a black box.
Designing efficient in-memory-computing architectures remains a challenge. Here the authors develop a multi-level FeFET crossbar for multi-bit MAC operations encoded in activation time and accumulated current with experimental validation at 28nm achieving 96.6% accuracy and high performance of 885 TOPS/W.
Artificial general intelligence through an AI photonic chip face_with_colon_three
The pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) continuously demands higher computing performance. Despite the superior processing speed and efficiency of integrated photonic circuits, their capacity and scalability are restricted by unavoidable errors, such that only simple tasks and shallow models are realized. To support modern AGIs, we designed Taichi—large-scale photonic chiplets based on an integrated diffractive-interference hybrid design and a general distributed computing architecture that has millions-of-neurons capability with 160–tera-operations per second per watt (TOPS/W) energy efficiency. Taichi experimentally achieved on-chip 1000-category–level classification (testing at 91.89% accuracy in the 1623-category Omniglot dataset) and high-fidelity artificial intelligence–generated content with up to two orders of magnitude of improvement in efficiency.
On the day of the ChatGPT-4o announcement, Sam Altman sat down to share behind-the-scenes details of the launch and offer his predictions for the future of AI. Altman delves into OpenAI’s vision, discusses the timeline for achieving AGI, and explores the societal impact of humanoid robots. He also expresses his excitement and concerns about AI personal assistants, highlights the biggest opportunities and risks in the AI landscape today, and much more.
(00:00) Intro. (00:50) The Personal Impact of Leading OpenAI (01:44) Unveiling Multimodal AI: A Leap in Technology. (02:47) The Surprising Use Cases and Benefits of Multimodal AI (03:23) Behind the Scenes: Making Multimodal AI Possible. (08:36) Envisioning the Future of AI in Communication and Creativity. (10:21) The Business of AI: Monetization, Open Source, and Future Directions. (16:42) AI’s Role in Shaping Future Jobs and Experiences. (20:29) Debunking AGI: A Continuous Journey Towards Advanced AI (24:04) Exploring the Pace of Scientific and Technological Progress. (24:18) The Importance of Interpretability in AI (25:11) Navigating AI Ethics and Regulation. (27:26) The Safety Paradigm in AI and Beyond. (28:55) Personal Reflections and the Impact of AI on Society. (29:11) The Future of AI: Fast Takeoff Scenarios and Societal Changes. (30:59) Navigating Personal and Professional Challenges. (40:21) The Role of AI in Creative and Personal Identity. (43:09) Educational System Adaptations for the AI Era. (44:30) Contemplating the Future with Advanced AI
Yet another OpenAI executive has been caught lacking on camera when asked if the company’s new Sora video generator was trained using YouTube videos.
During a recent talk at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit in San Francisco, OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap went off on a word vomit-style monologue in the wrong direction in an attempt to deflect from questions about Sora’s training data.
“Can you say, and clear up once and for all, whether Sora was trained on YouTube data?” Bloomberg’s Shirin Ghaffary asked the COO, prompting a wordy non-response.
