The Week in AI: Chatbots Multiply, Elon Musk Pursues Maximum Truth-Seeking Model
This article appears to be a weekly roundup of news and updates related to artificial intelligence (AI). Here’s a summary of some of the key points:
- OpenAI: The company is working on integrating AI into various applications, including games like Shadowgate and The Dig.
- Tesla: The electric truck manufacturer has been awarded $100M by the US government for its plan to create an electric truck charging corridor in Illinois.
- Duolingo: The language learning app has seen a 216% spike in users learning Chinese due to concerns over TikTok’s data collection practices.
- Colossal Biosciences: The company has raised $200M at a $10.2B valuation to bring back woolly mammoths using genetic engineering and AI.
- UnitedHealth: The healthcare company hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months, potentially affecting millions of students and teachers.
- PowerSchool: The education technology company was breached, with hackers stealing "all" historical student and teacher data.
- Bluesky: The social media platform is launching a photo-sharing app called Flashes.
- AI reasoning model: OpenAI’s AI reasoning model sometimes thinks in Chinese, but no one knows why.
Some of the other topics covered include:
- Researchers at University College London are studying how animals use short feedback loops to explore their environment and learning more efficiently than AI models.
- EPFL and Phase One are working together to create the largest digital image ever created – 150 megapixels times 127,000, or basically 19 petapixels.
