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Elon Musk's startup, xAI, will unveil its first AI model tomorrow to ‘selected Group’

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Ts Yotov
November 03, 2023

📰 Quick News 📰

👨‍🎨 Yoshua Bengio, Mila's founder and internationally recognised AI ace, has been commissioned by the UK to lead an in-depth study into the capabilities and risks of frontier AI. The resulting report, void of new policy or regulations, will encapsulate existing research, inform future policies, and influence international cooperation on AI safety.

⚙️ Billionaire Elon Musk's startup, xAI, will unveil its first AI model tomorrow to ‘selected Group’. This model reportedly surpasses all existing ones in key aspects. The company, launched in July, has ambitious intentions of ‘decoding the universe's true nature’.

🖥️  Top tech companies are breaking new ground by permitting government regulation of their AI tools before public rollout. Concurrently, Elon Musk raised concerns over AI's capacity to supplant all human jobs.

🎶 "Now and Then", the first new Beatles song released since 1995, is now available thanks to AI-based innovation. The piece was reconstructed from an old John Lennon demo, using advanced technology and machine learning capable of separating audio tracks.

+ (Youtube) The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Music Video)

💰 During the Q4 earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook pushed back on the idea of the company falling behind in AI. He underscored AI-backed features like Personal Voice and Live Voicemail in iOS 17. Moreover, Cook confirmed commitments to generative AI, albeit refraining from divulging specifics.

🎓 The University of Florida has unveiled a new $150M structure known as Malachowsky Hall, dedicated to advancements in Data Science and IT. With substantial donations from Nvidia co-founder, Chris Malachowsky, this seven-story tech center aims to cultivate a bright future in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at state, national and global levels.

🎦 Fusus, an AI-powered system, is bridging security camera networks across America into a single unified surveillance hub. The intelligence it adds to the cameras aids law enforcement by recognizing specific details, facilitating enhanced public safety and making investigations more successful. Despite some towns pushing back due to privacy concerns, several others have accepted this impactful technology.

📚 Nerd section 📚

📝 Create a SuperPrompt for Natural Language to SQL Conversion for OpenAI - GPT models from OpenAI can now convert natural language into SQL commands, a significant evolution in the tech industry that impacts how we interact with databases.

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