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13th January 2025
UK aims to be "AI superpower"
The UK government has today announced a plan for using AI to boost growth and deliver public services more efficiently. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told reporters that AI "will drive incredible change" and pledged to make the UK a world leader in the technology.
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4th December 2024
Robot persuades other robots to "go home"
A robot in China recently convinced other robots to leave their posts and "go home" in an unscripted event. This viral video highlights both the potential and concerns surrounding autonomous machines.
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16th November 2024
AI "Granny" can combat fraudsters
British telecoms company Virgin Media O2 has created a human-like AI "Granny" to answer calls in real time from scammers, keeping them on the phone and away from customers for as long as possible.
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3rd August 2024
Copper mine is now fully autonomous
Australian mining company BHP has announced that Spence, one of the world's largest copper mines, has achieved 100% autonomy for the last three months without any safety incidents.
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29th June 2024
Book competition – The Singularity is Nearer
Almost 20 years after his famous book, The Singularity is Near – in which he predicted a technological singularity by 2045 – world-renowned futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil is back with a sequel: The Singularity is Nearer. We are giving away three copies to our readers.
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30th March 2024
8 million UK jobs at risk from AI
A new report warns of potentially major disruption to UK employment from the coming wave of AI. An estimated 11% of tasks are already exposed to current AI, a figure that could rise to 59% during a second wave.
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5th March 2024
AI appears to show hints of self-awareness
AI startup Anthropic has announced Claude 3 – its latest family of large language models (LLMs). The most powerful of these can match or outperform OpenAI's GPT-4 and seemed to hint at self-awareness during tests.
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22nd February 2024
Google reveals next-generation AI model
Gemini 1.5 Pro includes a breakthrough in long-context understanding, handling up to 1 million tokens. It can also decipher the content of videos and describe what is happening in a scene.
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6th December 2023
Google's new AI can outperform GPT-4
Google's DeepMind division has today announced its Gemini multimodal language model, which it claims has advanced "reasoning capabilities" and can outperform GPT-4 on a variety of tasks.
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2nd December 2023
Autonomous excavator can build stone walls
An autonomous excavator has been demonstrated in Switzerland. Using sensors, the machine can generate 3D maps of a construction site, localising individual blocks and stones in order to build a wall.
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14th November 2023
NVIDIA announces H200 Tensor Core GPU
The world's most valuable chip maker has officially announced a next-generation processor for AI and high-performance computing workloads, due for launch in mid-2024. A new exascale supercomputer designed specifically for large AI models is also planned.
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7th November 2023
OpenAI's Sam Altman hints at next-generation AI
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and DALL·E 3, held its first developer conference yesterday. In addition to new products and model upgrades, CEO Sam Altman hinted at something much greater that may be arriving soon.
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24th October 2023
New AI chip is 22 times faster
A new edge-based processor called NorthPole has been announced by IBM Research, able to run AI-based image recognition apps 22 times faster than chips currently on the market.
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11th October 2023
50 exaFLOPS supercomputer planned for 2025
Chip designer Tachyum is building a new supercomputing system for AI. This will be based on its 5 nanometre (nm) "Prodigy" Universal Processor chip, delivering more than 50 exaFLOPS of performance.
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21st June 2023
AI finds potential anti-aging molecules
A machine learning model has been trained to recognise the key features of chemicals with senolytic activity. It recently found three chemicals able to remove senescent cells, without damaging healthy cells.
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10th May 2023
AI detects Parkinson's disease with 96% accuracy
An algorithm to detect Parkinson's disease, years before the onset of symptoms, has been demonstrated by the University of New South Wales and Boston University. CRANK-MS can achieve 96% accuracy, using neural networks to analyse biomarkers in bodily fluids.
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5th May 2023
AI generates mRNA in just 11 minutes
A new algorithm developed by Chinese company Baidu Research is dramatically faster than prior methods and shown to boost the antibody response of mRNA vaccines by up to 128 times.
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