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The Download: Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Prize, and multimodal AI

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Tuesday, October 08, 2024 - 4:25 PM
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and figurehead of doomerism, wins Nobel Prize Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist

Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer and figurehead of doomerism, wins Nobel Prize

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Tuesday, October 08, 2024 - 4:01 PM
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Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and ’90s underpins all of the most powerful AI models in the world today, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of

Why artificial intelligence and clean energy need each other

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Tuesday, October 08, 2024 - 2:00 PM
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We are in the early stages of a geopolitical competition for the future of artificial intelligence. The winners will dominate the global economy in the 21st century. But what’s been too often left out of the conversation is that AI’s huge demand for

Forget chat. AI that can hear, see, and click is already here.

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Tuesday, October 08, 2024 - 1:04 PM
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Chatting with an AI chatbot is so 2022. The latest hot AI toys take advantage of multimodal models, which can

The Download: how to find new music online, and climate friendly food

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Monday, October 07, 2024 - 4:10 PM
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to break free of Spotify’s algorithm Since the heyday of radio, records, cassette tapes, and MP3 players

The Download: Google’s AI podcasts, and protecting your brain data

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Friday, October 04, 2024 - 4:10 PM
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts—and they’re weird and amazing Google’s new AI

The Download: training robots with gen AI, and the state of climate tech

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Thursday, October 03, 2024 - 4:10 PM
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI-generated images can teach robots how to act Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts