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Boston Dynamic’s Atlas does the “crab”.

Elon Musk, renowned entrepreneur and co-founder of OpenAI, made an exciting announcement on November 3. Musk revealed that xAI, a subdivision of OpenAI, will be releasing its first artificial intelligence, Grok, to a select group of users. In his tweet, Musk stated that Grok is “the best that currently exists” in many crucial aspects.

Grok, a groundbreaking AI assistant, promises to revolutionize information accessibility and browsing capabilities. Unlike other models, Grok has the unique ability to offer real-time access to information through the powerful platform. Through this platform, Grok can fetch up-to-date information from the internet on any given topic, providing users with comprehensive and timely insights.

Musk also highlighted Grok’s distinctive feature of possessing internet browsing capabilities, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This grants Grok the capability to not only provide information but also engage in meaningful conversations with users, making it a truly versatile AI assistant.

Provocative Silicon Valley artist Agnieszka Pilat has strong beliefs regarding the intermingling of art, religion and technology, something that keeps her fertile muse alert amid multiple presentations, exhibitions and appearances at global events such as the recent TED AI 2023 conference in San Francisco.

The Polish-born Pilat’s current SpaceX Artist-in-Residence program at the aerospace firm’s Hawthorne, California facility will likely run through 2024 and comes right before a December exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial in Australia. There, for three months, her black-and-yellow Boston Dynamics robodogs will be creating autonomous artwork via a series of pre-programmed instructions.

This is an interesting concept and isn’t without controversy but I hope they succeed in building this. It sets a precedent if successful.

Join renowned physicist and best-selling author Professor Michio Kaku on his visit to THE LINE at #NEOM.

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The research, which was published today in Nature Communications, is a joint effort by experts from the University of Sydney and the University of California at Los Angeles.

The artificial brain is made of nanowire networks, tiny wires a billion times smaller than a meter. The cables form random patterns that look like the game ‘Pick Up Sticks,’ but they also act like the neural networks in our brains. These networks can process information in different ways.

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The biggest companies in AI aren’t interested in paying to use copyrighted material as training data, and here are their reasons why.

The US Copyright Office is taking public comment on potential new rules around generative AI’s use of copyrighted materials, and the biggest AI companies in the world had plenty to say. We’ve collected the arguments from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Hugging Face, StabilityAI, and Anthropic below, as well as a response from Apple that focused on copyrighting AI-written code.

There are some differences in their approaches, but the overall message for most is the same: They don’t think they should have to pay to train AI models on copyrighted work.

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‘Prompt injection’ attacks haven’t caused giant problems yet. But it’s a matter of time, researchers say.

Imagine a chatbot is applying for a job as your personal assistant. The pros: This chatbot is powered by a cutting-edge large language model. It can write your emails, search your files, summarize websites and converse with you.

The con: It will take orders from absolutely anyone.

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The term artificial airglow describes the intentional augmentation or production of atmospheric airglow which is the earth’s atmosphere’s natural light emission. This phenomenon, which can be seen at different altitudes, is brought on by solar and cosmic radiation interacting with atmospheric molecules like oxygen and nitrogen. The dim, diffuse, and typically greenish light produced by artificial airglow is most noticeable at night and has long been studied for its unique celestial properties.

Four days of research and experimentation

Now, the high-frequency radio wave transmitter called the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility in Alaska will create the phenomenon in the sky for four days starting from Saturday in order to conduct experiments on the ionosphere, a region of our planet’s upper atmosphere that contains a high concentration of ions and free electrons and extends from about 30 miles (50 kilometers) above the earth’s surface to several hundred miles in altitude.