🧠 Mind Gaming with Neuralink's Breakthrough, AI Model Training Without Copyrighted Content, AI's Role in Global Flood Forecasting
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Neuralink Livestreams Paralyzed Patient Playing Video Games With His Mind. Neuralink, Elon Musk's neuroscience startup, live-streamed an interview with its first patient on Wednesday. The man in question, a 29-year-old quadriplegic who identifies himself as Noland Arbaugh, said that he has been unable to move his arms or legs for nearly a decade. By Lucas Ropek via Gizmodo
𝕏: Livestream of @Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking - Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
Here's Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content. In 2023, OpenAI told the UK parliament that it was “impossible” to train leading AI models without using copyrighted materials. It’s a popular stance in the AI world, where OpenAI and other leading players have used materials slurped up online to train the models powering chatbots and image generators, triggering a wave of lawsuits alleging copyright infringement. By Kate Knibbs via WIRED
𝕏: Announcing today in @Wired the release of Common Corpus, the largest collection of fully open corpus on HuggingFace: nearly 500b words (600-700b tokens) in public domain. - Alexander Doria (@Dorialexander)
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How we are using AI for reliable flood forecasting at a global scale. People turn to Google for accurate and helpful information during crises to help them protect themselves and their families. Floods are the most common type of natural disaster and nearly 1.5 billion people, or some 19 percent of the world population, are directly exposed to substantial risks from severe flood events worldwide. By Yossi Matias via Google Blog
𝕏: Great to see this new @GoogleResearch work on improved AI methods for flood forecasting published in @Nature Today. Floods are the most common natural disaster, and are responsible for roughly $50B in annual financial damages. - Jeff Dean (@JeffDean)
Google to IBM: How big tech giants are embracing Nvidia's new hardware and software services. Nvidia has gone all in to push the boundaries of computing at the ongoing GTC conference in San Jose. CEO Jensen Huang, donning a black leather jacket, addressed a packed crowd (the event looked more like a concert than a conference) in his keynote and announced the long-awaited GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip, promising up to 30 times performance increase for large language model (LLM) inference workloads. By Shubham Sharma via VentureBeat
GitHub's latest AI tool can automatically fix code vulnerabilities. It’s a bad day for bugs. Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code and now, a few hours later, GitHub is launching the first beta of its code-scanning autofix feature for finding and fixing security vulnerabilities during the coding process. This new feature combines the real-time capabilities of GitHub’s Copilot with CodeQL, the company’s semantic code analysis engine. By Frederic Lardinois via TechCrunch
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