More AI Breakthroughs and Reaching AGI

Google released a Large Language Model PaLM 2 which is competitive with OpenAI’s GPT 4. Google also announced they are already training Gemini which is a GPT 5 competitor. Gemeni likely use TPU v5 chips. Benchmarks for PaLM-2 beats GPT 4. They use SmartGPT-like techniques to boost performance. PaLM 2 beats even Google Translate, due …

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Google Announces Palm-2 and BARD as a New GPT-4 Competitors at Google IO 2023

Google’s CEO has announced that Google will be an AI first company. They are adding generative AI to all of their products including search, maps, gmail and workspace. Google announces Palm-2 which powers an improved BARD as a new GPT-4 competitors. Palm-2 is integrated into 25 Google products. BARD can handle over 20 programming languages. …

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Emergence and Reasoning in Large Language Models

Emergent capabilities are abilities that are not present in smaller models but are present in larger models. This is discussed in the video below by Jason Wei, a Google AI researcher. I had a prior article that discussed the summary from Alan Thompson on what capabilities emerged at what point for the large language models. …

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Six Big AI Projects in the Race Beyond 2 Trillion Parameters

There are six major AI projects in the race beyond 2 trillion parameter models. There is OpenAI, Anthropic, Google/Deepmind, Meta, a UK government project and a stealth project. It takes $1-2 billion per year of resources to be in the game. There is $1 billion needed for hardware and that hardware will need to be …

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Microsoft 365 CoPilot AI to Increase Work Productivity

Microsoft Satya Nadella and Jared Spataro focused on how AI will power a whole new way of working for everyone. Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other microsoft software will create first drafts of documents which can be based upon the users previous style. CoPilot can convert Word documents into Powerpoint and Powerpoint into Word. CoPilot can …

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Waymo cuts 200 employees after second round of layoffs

Alphabet’s Waymo , self-driving company, has laid off 8% (209 employees) of its workforce. The layoffs — mostly engineering roles — are part of a broader organizational restructure. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News …

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Microsoft $10 Billion into OpenAI and ChatGPT is AI IPhone Moment

Fortune and others are reporting that Microsoft will close a $10 billion investment deal into the artificial intelligence startup before the end of this month. This is discussed in the All-in-Pod cast. The deal will have a unique structure in that Microsoft will get 49% of the company but 75% of future profits. Chamath is …

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Elon Musk Confirms Plan to Add Youtube Clone to Twitter

Elon Musk has confirmed that after taking over Twitter he will add a clone of Youtube to Twitter. Nextbigfuture wrote how it would be simple to combine Starlink generation 2 backhaul bandwidth capabilities to enable video with Twitter. SpaceX Starlink just passed 250,000 users in April and is now about 1 million users. Starlink could …

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