Bill Gates Says Superintelligence is Inevitable

Bill Gates talks about the inevitability that AI will become more intelligent than humans. Bill Gates has insider access and insight into what OpenAI and Microsoft are doing in AI. He believes the next level is to get to human-like metacognition. We need to go beyond the more trivial reasoning of LLM today. Metacognition is …

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Looking at Hardware for Running Local Large Language Models

ChatRTX is a demo app that lets you personalize a GPT large language model (LLM) connected to your own content—docs, notes, images, or other data. Leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT-LLM, and RTX acceleration, you can query a custom chatbot to quickly get contextually relevant answers. It all runs locally on your Windows RTX PC or …

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Sanctuary AI Humanoid Robotics Partners With Microsoft

Sanctuary AI and Microsoft will work together to bolster AI research and development and Sanctuary AI will leverage Microsoft’s Azure cloud resources for their AI workloads. SanctuaryAI is among the humandoid robotics companies that have partnered with Nvidia. Among the nine companies on stage with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had the SanctuaryAI bot at the …

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Snapshot of the Race for More AI Compute

The number of Nvidia H100 and other Nvidia chips that an AI company represents the AI compute resources of that company. Elon indicated that a recent chart showing Meta leading on the GPU count and Tesla trailing at 10,000 G100 GPUs. Microsoft and OpenAI would also have higher GPU counts. It is unclear why Microsoft …

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Starting the Era of 1-bit LLMs – With Microsoft Research

BitNet is paving the way for a new era of 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we introduce a 1-bit LLM variant, namely BitNet b1.58, in which every single parameter (or weight) of the LLM is ternary {-1, 0, 1}. It matches the full-precision (i.e., FP16 or BF16) Transformer LLM with the same …

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Interactive AI Agents that Make Decisions and Take Actions

Arxiv – The development of artificial intelligence systems is transitioning from creating static, task-specific models to dynamic, agent-based systems capable of performing well in a wide range of applications. Microsoft researchers propose an Interactive Agent Foundation Model that uses a novel multi-task agent training paradigm for training AI agents across a wide range of domains, …

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Microsoft Allows Easy Editing and Style Changes for AI Generated Images

You can now edit images generated with Dall-E 3. It works directly in Copilot thanks to Designer (and for free). I've been looking forward to this You can now edit images generated with Dall-E 3. It works directly in Copilot thanks to Designer (and for free) 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Lccf4kedAN — Paul Couvert (@itsPaulAi) February 7, 2024 …

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Figure AI Talks With Microsoft & OpenAI About $500M Investment

Figure AI, startup developing humanoid robots, is talking to Microsoft and OpenAI to raise $500 million in new funding at a valuation of over $2 billion. Figure AI just made a deal with BMW to put the humanoid robots into the car factory for pilot tests over the next 12-24 months. Figure AI has performed …

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