Subj : Meta's open AGI plan 🧠, Figure deploys robots 🤖, Whisper speech generation 👨💻
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Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to achieve artificial general
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MARK ZUCKERBERG=E2=80=99S NEW GOAL IS CREATING ARTIFICIAL GENERAL
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ELLIGENCE (5 MINUTE READ) [7]=20
Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to=
achieve artificial general
intelligence (AGI). While he doesn't have a t=
imeline for when AGI will
be reached or an exact definition for it, he ha=
s moved Meta's AI
research group FAIR to the same part of the company bui=
lding
generative AI products across its apps. The move aims to allow Meta=
's
AI breakthroughs to more directly reach its users. Meta plans to own=
more than 340,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of the year.=20
THE NE=
XT IOS UPDATE WILL MAKE IT HARDER TO BREAK INTO YOUR IPHONE (2
MINUTE REA=
D) [8]=20
Apple's newest security feature, Stolen Device Protection, ma=
kes it
far harder for thieves to hijack Apple IDs and any financial
inf=
ormation stored on the device. It will require users to use Face ID
or To=
uch ID and certain changes may take up to an hour to take effect.
The fea=
ture addresses a key vulnerability where thieves can lock
victims out of =
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
FIGURE'=
S HUMANOID ROBOTS ARE ABOUT TO ENTER THE WORKFORCE AT BMW (4
MINUTE READ)=
[9]=20
Figure is sending its general-purpose humanoid robots to start=
real-world work at BMW's manufacturing plant in South Carolina. The
de=
al may be one of the first-ever commercial deals involving humanoid
robot=
s. While the two companies have yet to announce exactly what
Figure's rob=
ots will be doing on the factory floor, training has
already begun in the=
company's labs for the first tasks. The
partnership is milestone-based, =
so Figure will have to prove its
robots can do useful work before it scal=
es its operations.=20
FLYING KITES DELIVER CONTAINER-SIZE POWER GENERAT=
ION (4 MINUTE READ)
[10]=20
Airborne wind energy is a new field that =
uses kites instead of
turbines to generate energy from wind. Kites are ni=
mbler than turbines
and can deliver a more constant energy supply. Nether=
lands-based
company Kitepower has developed a system called Hawk that fli=
es out in
'pumping' cycles - it flies out while pulling at a tether, gene=
rating
electricity on the ground, and when the tether reaches its maximum=
length, the ground station winches the kite back in, using only a
frac=
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WhisperSpeech is a text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper.
The =
models are currently only trained on the English LibreLight
dataset, but =
future releases will target multiple languages. Samples
of synthesized vo=
ices are available in the repository.=20
WHAT'S NEW WITH ML IN PRODUCTI=
ON (27 MINUTE READ) [13]=20
Most machine learning in production is stil=
l not related to large
language models or generative AI, which make up le=
ss than 10% of the
market at most. At their core, machine learning models=
are algorithms
that perform compression on a corpus of data. A lot has c=
hanged in
leading-edge machine learning applications over the past year a=
s the
industry has moved from smaller, business-specific models that perf=
orm
specific tasks to very large generalist models that complete text. Th=
e
pendulum is again shifting to smaller models that people are starting=
to fine-tune and run on their own. The industry still focuses on
compr=
ession, but it is changing where and how much it is controlled.=20
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IRD-PARTY IOS APPS (4 MINUTE
READ) [14]=20
Apple has introduced a new=
tax on web purchases that prevents
developers from offering digital item=
s more cheaply on the web. Epic
will contest this plan in District Court.=
Apple is demanding
commission from web sales that occur within 7 days of=
a user tapping
through to the web from its new External Purchase Links e=
ntitlement in
an app - services that already sell over the web can contin=
ue to do so
in exactly the same way. Some critics say Apple shouldn't and=
legally
can't comply with its anti-steering injunction this way, but it =
looks
like the company isn't doing anything contrary to the law.=20
S=
AM ALTMAN SAYS AI USING TOO MUCH ENERGY, WILL REQUIRE BREAKTHROUGH
ENERGY=
SOURCE (2 MINUTE READ) [15]=20
It's no secret that AI models require a=
stronomical amounts of
electricity to run. Experts estimate that the indu=
stry could soon use
as much electricity as an entire country. OpenAI CEO =
Sam Altman is
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Search engine resu=
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WHAT IS SCALABILITY ANYWAY? (2 MINUTE READ) [19]=20
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approximately const=
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MINUTE READ)
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Amazon is laying off about 30 employees in its B=
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WORKERS ARE FILMING THEIR LAYOFF=
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