MondayMar 11, 2024 10:00 am

Feds Say AI Can’t Be Inventor, Though AI-Assisted Inventions Are Patentable

Recent advancements in the artificial intelligence (AI) field have significantly increased the scope of how the technology can be applied. With generative AI tools such as ChatGPT already helping users generate significant amounts of data every day, the technology has the potential to completely revolutionize many industries. Experts in several fields could use AI to optimize their workflows and analyze mountains of data to reach new and potentially groundbreaking conclusions. However, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ruled that artificial intelligence itself cannot be classified as an inventor. The USPTO has issued guidance on inventorship and patentability in…

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FridayMar 08, 2024 10:00 am

Could AI Further Entrench Existing Global Inequalities?

Last month, Web Summit was held in the Middle East for the first time. The event, held in Doha, is the biggest technology conference globally. While the conference had participants from dozens of countries around the globe, the prevailing topic at this year’s conference was artificial intelligence and its capabilities. There is great excitement surrounding AI given its application in various sectors. However, concerns about its use are also increasing, particularly the fact that it could worsen inequities that divide the world. Black Lives Matter cocreator Ayo Tometi believes that technologies such as AI may amplify biases that exist. During…

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WednesdayMar 06, 2024 9:45 am

AI Trounces Humans in Creativity in New Study

New research has found that artificial intelligence (AI) showed a higher creativity level when competing in a series of tests against human participants. The tests, which were designed to evaluate the ability to generate unique solutions, demonstrated that AI could provide more elaborate and original answers. This research highlights AI’s evolving capabilities in creative domains and also recognizes the lack of agency for AI and difficulties in measuring creativity. Despite demonstrating potential as a tool to improve human creativity, concerns remain about the tole of AI and its integration in creative processes in the future. The study was authored by…

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WednesdayMar 06, 2024 9:00 am

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) and NEC Australia Introduce Quantum Services to Australian Market

D-Wave and NEC Australia announced two new quantum offerings for Australia's commercial sector, federal and state governments, and academia The companies’ new quantum services aim to optimize business operations and can navigate increasingly large datasets to find solutions to real-world problems New offerings include a quantum consultancy service and access to D-Wave’s Leap(TM) real-time quantum cloud service D-Wave Quantum (NYSE: QBTS), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and NEC Australia recently announced the introduction of two new quantum services to the Australian market, enhancing the quantum computing offerings available to Australia's commercial sector, federal and state governments,…

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MondayMar 04, 2024 9:45 am

Study Shows AI Chatbots Spreading Inaccurate Information about Elections

New research has found that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are producing inaccurate data on elections, including incomplete and/or harmful answers. This research comes as more individuals in America turn to chatbots such as ChatGPT-4 and Gemini for information on presidential primaries. The research was carried out by Proof News, a nonprofit media outlet, and AI Democracy Projects. Concerns have been raised on the arrival of AI-powered tools that could offer voters misleading and false information, and even discourage others from going to the polls. The latest generation of AI tech includes tools that allow users to generate audio, textual and…

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FridayMar 01, 2024 10:15 am

How Prepared Is the US to Deal with Potential Impact of AI on Elections?

For the past couple of months, news cycles worldwide have been filled with stories of increasingly advanced and complex artificial intelligence (AI) tools that use machine learning to achieve incredible feats. However, while this technology will undoubtedly revolutionize industry in a myriad of ways, many experts are worried about the potential impact of AI-generated disinformation during election cycles. Advancements in both software and hardware have allowed startups such as OpenAI and Stability AI as well as established tech companies such as Google and Microsoft to develop increasingly advanced generative AI models. Tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, for instance, can generate…

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WednesdayFeb 28, 2024 10:00 am

Why Nvidia Has Captured Global Attention, Reaching Billion-Dollar Value

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have allowed the technology to become incredibly popular in the mainstream and the business space over the past couple of years. AI models such as ChatGPT have showed the public and businesses around the world what generative artificial intelligence is capable of. Although the technology is still in its infancy, AI has the potential to revolutionize current business practices and even change how certain industries operate. At the heart of this revolutionary technology are advanced computer chips that power the complex algorithms behind AI models. Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) was mostly known for developing graphics…

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MondayFeb 26, 2024 10:30 am

Adobe Unveils AI to Search, Summarize PDFs

Adobe has unveiled an artificial intelligence assistant that can search PDFs, produce summaries and answer questions about a user’s PDF documents. The computer software company launched the AI assistant in its Acrobat applications and reader, and is planning to release a subscription plan for the tool once it is past beta testing. Unlike other AI models, such as ChatGPT, which need users to upload a PDF document before providing an analysis, the AI assistant from Adobe will be built into its reader and applications. A news release said the AI assistant is currently available on Acrobat and noted that Adobe…

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FridayFeb 23, 2024 11:00 am

OpenAI Unveils Text-to-Video AI Model

The company behind ChatGPT has unveiled a generative text-to-video artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate video from text. Developed by San Francisco-based AI research organization OpenAI, the text-to-video model — Sora — can use text prompts from users to generate videos of up to a minute in length. Although Sora still isn’t available to the public, OpenAI’s announcement left the internet ablaze with varied reactions. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to social media platform X to ask users for prompt ideas before feeding the prompts into the company’s text-to-video AI model. Some of the prompt ideas offered by users…

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WednesdayFeb 21, 2024 11:00 am

NVIDIA Unveils Chatbot That Could Give ChatGPT a Run for Its Money

Nvidia has launched Chat with RTX, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot that can run on GeForce RTX 30 Series and 40 Series graphic cards. The Nvidia chatbot can run offline on Windows PCs equipped with the two graphics cards and allows users to customize a generative AI model similar to ChatGPT by OpenAI by connecting it to notes, files and documents for querying. A blog post by Nvidia revealed that Chat with RTX users can type simple queries into the chatbot to precisely locate information instead of searching through their saved content or notes manually. It uses an open-source model…

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