Large language models

Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture

November 23, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will adjust…

November 13, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Nvidia, Oracle, Google, Dell and 13 other companies reported how long it takes their computers to train the key neural networks in use today. Among those results were the first glimpse of Nvidia’s next generation GPU, the B200, and Google’s upcoming accelerator, called Trillium. The B200 posted a doubling of…

November 4, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

Private investment in generative AI has grown from about US $3 billion in 2022 to $25 billion in 2023, and about 80 percent of private companies expect AI to drive their business in the next 3 years, according to Deloitte. Keeping up with the latest advancements means upgrading GPUs, CPUs,…

June 13, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

Last month when Google introduced its new AI search tool, called AI Overviews, the company seemed confident that it had tested the tool sufficiently, noting in the announcement that “people have already used AI Overviews billions of times through our experiment in Search Labs.” The tool doesn’t just return links…

June 12, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

For years, Nvidia has dominated many machine learning benchmarks, and now there are two more notches in its belt.MLPerf, the AI benchmarking suite sometimes called “the Olympics of machine learning,” has released a new set of training tests to help make more and better apples-to-apples comparisons between competing computer systems.…

May 22, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This spring, hype has been swirling around two AI-powered gadgets: the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1. Both promised AI automation and seamless conversation with an ever-present, always-helpful AI assistant.They failed. Prominent tech reviewer Marques Brownlee called the Humane AI Pin the “worst product I’ve ever reviewed,” while the Rabbit…

May 7, 2024
Aerospace & Aeronautical

The emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI)—systems that can perform any task a human can—could be the most important event in human history, one that radically impacts all aspects of our collective lives. Yet AGI, which could emerge soon, remains an elusive and controversial concept. We lack a clear definition…

16 Apr 24

Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

One of the management guru Peter Drucker’s most over-quoted turns of phrase is “what gets measured gets improved.” But it’s over-quoted for a reason: It’s true. Nowhere is it truer than in technology over the past 50 years. Moore’s law—which predicts that the number of transistors (and hence compute capacity)…

28 Mar 24

Nvidia Tops Llama 2, Stable Diffusion Speed Trials

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Times change, and so must benchmarks. Now that we’re firmly in the age of massive generative AI, it’s time to add two such behemoths, Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL, to MLPerf’s inferencing tests. Version 4.0 of the benchmark tests more than 8,500 results from 23 submitting organizations. As…

24 Mar 24

Grokking X.ai’s Grok—Real Advance or Just Real Troll?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Last weekend, X.ai released the world’s largest “open-source” large language model (LLM), Grok-1. At 314 billion parameters, it’s the largest open-source model yet, far exceeding predecessors like Falcon 180B at 180 billion. That’s impressive, but the timing of X.ai’s release—just a few weeks after Elon Musk, founder of X.ai, filed…

Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture

Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training

Generative AI Has a Massive E-Waste Problem

Is AI Search a Medical Misinformation Disaster?

Nvidia Conquers Latest AI Tests

Where Do AI Gadgets Go From Here?

What Can AI Researchers Learn From Alien Hunters?

Announcing a Benchmark to Improve AI Safety

Nvidia Tops Llama 2, Stable Diffusion Speed Trials

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law