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Just outside Lausanne, Switzerland, in a meeting room wallpapered with patent drawings, Ioannis Ierides faced a classic sales challenge: demonstrating his product’s advantages within the short span of his customer’s attention. Ierides is a business-development manager at Iprova, a company that sells ideas for invention with an element of artificial intelligence (AI). When Ierides gets… Read more

The Roli Airwave uses infrared cameras to track your hand movements on a keyboard. That visual data can be used to teach you how to play a song or to compose entirely new sonic creations. Read more

This tiny Chromebook is now one of my favorite laptops for basic tasks. Read more

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 whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and 90s underpins all of the most powerful… Read more

Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist whose pioneering work on deep learning in the 1980s and ’90s underpins all of the most powerful AI models today, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Speaking on the phone to the Academy minutes after the announcement, Hinton said he… Read more

Adobe has announced a new tool to help creators watermark their artwork and opt out of having it used to train generative AI models. The web app, called Adobe Content Authenticity, allows artists to signal that they do not consent for their work to be used by AI models, which are generally trained on vast… Read more

Large language models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in recent years, but understanding their capabilities and limitations remains a challenge. Researchers are trying to develop methodologies to reason about the strengths and weaknesses of AI systems, particularly LLMs. The current approaches often lack a systematic framework for predicting and analyzing these systems’ behaviours. This has… Read more

Don’t suffer the buffer. These WIRED-tested systems will deliver reliable internet across your home whatever your needs or budget. Read more

The ability of learning to evaluate is increasingly taking on a pivotal role in the development of modern large multimodal models (LMMs). As pre-training on existing web data reaches its limits, researchers are shifting towards post-training with AI-enhanced synthetic data. This transition highlights the growing importance of learning to evaluate in modern LMMs. Reliable AI… Read more

Vectorize launches with agentic RAG platform and $3.6M in funding to help enterprises more easily connect to real time data.Read More Read more