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Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance
BloombergGPT outperforms similarly-sized open models on financial NLP tasks by significant margins — without sacrificing performance on general LLM benchmarks

(Bloomberg)
NEW YORK – Bloomberg today released a research paper detailing the development of BloombergGPTTM, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) model. This large language model (LLM) has been specifically trained on a wide range of financial data to support a diverse set of natural language processing (NLP) tasks within the financial industry.

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on LLMs have already demonstrated exciting new applications for many domains. However, the complexity and unique terminology of the financial domain warrant a domain-specific model. BloombergGPT represents the first step in the development and application of this new technology for the financial industry. This model will assist Bloomberg in improving existing financial NLP tasks, such as sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, news classification, and question answering, among others. Furthermore, BloombergGPT will unlock new opportunities for marshalling the vast quantities of data available on the Bloomberg Terminal to better help the firm’s customers, while bringing the full potential of AI to the financial domain.
Well, so much for 6-month A.I. pause petition. Everyone wants a piece of the A.I. boom, and this will only drive investment and adoption of the technology even faster.

In other words, exponential growth goes brrrrr!
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Cyber_Rebel wrote: Sun Apr 02, 2023 6:16 pm Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance
BloombergGPT outperforms similarly-sized open models on financial NLP tasks by significant margins — without sacrificing performance on general LLM benchmarks

(Bloomberg)
NEW YORK – Bloomberg today released a research paper detailing the development of BloombergGPTTM, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) model. This large language model (LLM) has been specifically trained on a wide range of financial data to support a diverse set of natural language processing (NLP) tasks within the financial industry.

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on LLMs have already demonstrated exciting new applications for many domains. However, the complexity and unique terminology of the financial domain warrant a domain-specific model. BloombergGPT represents the first step in the development and application of this new technology for the financial industry. This model will assist Bloomberg in improving existing financial NLP tasks, such as sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, news classification, and question answering, among others. Furthermore, BloombergGPT will unlock new opportunities for marshalling the vast quantities of data available on the Bloomberg Terminal to better help the firm’s customers, while bringing the full potential of AI to the financial domain.
Well, so much for 6-month A.I. pause petition. Everyone wants a piece of the A.I. boom, and this will only drive investment and adoption of the technology even faster.

In other words, exponential growth goes brrrrr!
There's trillions of dollars here and that means there's no way in hell that anyone that matters is going to stop! Their entire field and hundred billion or even trillion dollar company would be ruined if they don't. I think it is a good thing as knowledge is vastly preferred over what the right offers(pure idiocy).
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Tiny hybrid robot can identify, capture a single cell
By Paul McClure
April 03, 2023
https://newatlas.com/robotics/tiny-hybr ... ngle-cell/
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have created a micro-robot the size of a single biological cell that navigates using both electricity and magnetic fields and can identify and capture a single cell, opening the door to a vast array of applications.

Inspired by biological “swimmers” such as bacteria and sperm, the researchers developed a micro-robot (about 10 microns across) with the ability to move around the body autonomously or controlled by an operator.

Using a magnetic field to propel the micro-robot, also called a micro-motor, was attractive; it doesn’t require fuel or direct contact between the magnet and body tissues, can be steered accurately, and can function in a wide range of temperatures and solution conductivities. Electrically powered micro-motors offer advantages, such as selective cargo loading, transport and release and the ability to use electricity to “deform” cells, but they have some downsides. So, combining the two was a no-brainer.

“The micro-robots that have operated until now based on an electrical guiding mechanism were not effective in certain environments characterized by relatively high electrical conductivity, such as a physiological environment, where the electric drive is less effective,” said Gilad Yossifon, corresponding author of the study. “This is where the complementary magnetic mechanism comes into play, which is very effective regardless of the electrical conductivity of the environment.”
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Takeaways From Stanford’s 386-Page Report on the State of AI
by Devin Coldewey
April 4 , 2023

Introduction:
(TechCrunch) Writing a report on the state of AI must feel a lot like building on shifting sands: By the time you hit publish, the whole industry has changed under your feet. But there are still important trends and takeaways in Stanford’s 386-page bid to summarize this complex and fast-moving domain.

The AI Index, from the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, worked with experts from academia and private industry to collect information and predictions on the matter. As a yearly effort (and by the size of it, you can bet they’re already hard at work laying out the next one), this may not be the freshest take on AI, but these periodic broad surveys are important to keep one’s finger on the pulse of industry.

This year’s report includes “new analysis on foundation models, including their geopolitics and training costs, the environmental impact of AI systems, K-12 AI education, and public opinion trends in AI,” plus a look at policy in a hundred new countries.

Let us just bullet the highest-level takeaways:

• AI development has flipped over the last decade from academia-led to industry-led, by a large margin, and this shows no sign of changing.

• It’s becoming difficult to test models on traditional benchmarks and a new paradigm may be needed here.

• The energy footprint of AI training and use is becoming considerable, but we have yet to see how it may add efficiencies elsewhere.

• The number of “AI incidents and controversies” has increased by a factor of 26 since 2012, which actually seems a bit low.

• AI-related skills and job postings are increasing, but not as fast as you’d think.

• Policymakers, however, are falling over themselves trying to write a definitive AI bill, a fool’s errand if there ever was one.

• Investment has temporarily stalled, but that’s after an astronomic increase over the last decade.

• More than 70% of Chinese, Saudi, and Indian respondents felt AI had more benefits than drawbacks. Americans? 35%.

Read more here: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/the- ... te-of-ai/
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This Incredible Tiny Robot Can Locate And Capture Individual Cells
by David Nield
April 8, 2023

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(Science Alert) The latest bit of brilliance from the field of robotics is a tiny micro-motor that can identify, trap, and transport individual cells. It's a serious feat of engineering that could find uses from medicine to air purification.

Importantly, both electric and magnetic fields can control the machine – and the latter will be vital if the microscopic robot is eventually going to be deployed in the human body, which is what its inventors intend.

The bot ranges from 5 to 27 micrometers across and is made from a specially engineered polystyrene sphere coated with the conductive materials chromium, nickel, and gold.

"Developing the micro-robot's ability to move autonomously was inspired by biological micro-swimmers, such as bacteria and sperm cells," says mechanical engineer Gilad Yossifon from the University of Tel Aviv in Israel. "This is an innovative area of research that is developing rapidly, with a wide variety of uses."

This micro-motor has an impressive list of capabilities. It can move from cell to cell, identify different types of cells, recognize whether cells are healthy or dying, transport cells, and apply drugs or a specific gene to a cell.

Read more here: https://www.sciencealert.com/this-incr ... ual-cells
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A framework to enable touch-enhanced robotic grasping using tactile sensors
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-fra ... sping.html
by Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore
To successfully cooperate with humans on manual tasks, robots should be able to grasp and manipulate a variety of objects without dropping or damaging them. Recent research efforts in the field of robotics have thus focused on developing tactile sensors and controllers that could provide robots with the sense of touch and bring their object manipulation capabilities closer to those of humans.

Researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL)'s Dexterous Robotics group, Pisa University and IIT recently developed a tactile-driven system that could allow robots to grasp various objects gently and more effectively. This system, introduced in a paper pre-published on arXiv, combines a control scheme that enables force sensitive touch with a robotic hand with an optical tactile sensor on each of its fingertips.

"The motivation of this work stems from the collaboration between the Dexterous Robotics group at the BRL and researchers at Pisa University and IIT," Chris Ford, one of the researchers who developed the tactile system, told Tech Xplore. "Pisa/IIT have a unique design of robot hand (the SoftHand), which is based on the human hand. We wanted to combine the Pisa/IIT SoftHand and the BRL TacTip tactile sensor, as the two technologies complement each other due to their biomimetic nature."

The SoftHand is a robotic hand that resembles human hands in both its shape and function. Originally developed as a prosthetic tool, this hand can grasp with the same postural synergy as human hands.
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AI generated news presenter debuts in Kuwait media

Tue 11 Apr 2023 00.28 BST

A Kuwaiti media outlet has unveiled a virtual news presenter generated using artificial intelligence, with plans for it to read online bulletins.

“Fedha” appeared on the Twitter account of the Kuwait News website on Saturday as an image of a woman, hair uncovered, wearing a black jacket and white T-shirt.

“I’m Fedha, the first presenter in Kuwait who works with artificial intelligence at Kuwait News. What kind of news do you prefer? Let’s hear your opinions,” she said in Arabic.

The site is affiliated with the Kuwait Times, founded in 1961 as the Gulf region’s first English-language daily.

Abdullah Boftain, deputy editor in chief for both outlets, said it was a test of AI’s potential to offer “new and innovative content”.

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OpenAI and Figure join the race to humanoid robot workers
By Loz Blain
April 10, 2023
https://newatlas.com/robotics/openai-fi ... -robotics/
Humanoid robots built around cutting-edge AI brains promise shocking, disruptive change to labor markets and the wider global economy – and near-unlimited investor returns to whoever gets them right at scale. Big money is now flowing into the sector.

The jarring emergence of ChatGPT has made it clear: AIs are advancing at a wild and accelerating pace, and they're beginning to transform industries based around desk jobs that typically marshall human intelligence. They'll begin taking over portions of many white-collar jobs in the coming years, leading initially to huge increases in productivity, and eventually, many believe, to huge increases in unemployment.

If you're coming out of school right now and looking to be useful, blue collar work involving actual physical labor might be a better bet than anything that'd put you behind a desk.

But on the other hand, it's starting to look like a general-purpose humanoid robot worker might be closer than anyone thinks, imbued with light-speed, swarm-based learning capabilities to go along with GPT-version-X communication abilities, a whole internet's worth of knowledge, and whatever physical attributes you need for a given job.

Such humanoids will begin as dumbass job-site apprentices with zero common sense, but they'll learn – at a frightening pace, if the last few months in AI has been any kind of indication. They'll be available 24/7, power sources permitting, gradually expanding their capabilities and overcoming their limitations until they begin displacing humans. They could potentially crash the cost of labor, leading to enormous gains in productivity – and a fundamental upheaval of the blue-collar labor market at a size and scale limited mainly by manufacturing, materials, and what kinds of jobs they're capable of taking over.
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US Begins Study of Possible Rules to Regulate AI Like ChatGPT

April 11, 2023, at 10:53 a.m.

The Biden administration said Tuesday it is seeking public comments on potential accountability measures for artificial intelligence (AI) systems as questions loom about its impact on national security and education.

ChatGPT, an AI program that recently grabbed the public's attention for its ability to write answers quickly to a wide range of queries, in particular has attracted U.S. lawmakers' attention as it has grown to be the fastest-growing consumer application in history with more than 100 million monthly active users.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a Commerce Department agency that advises the White House on telecommunications and information policy, wants input as there is "growing regulatory interest" in an AI "accountability mechanism."

The agency wants to know if there are measures that could be put in place to provide assurance "that AI systems are legal, effective, ethical, safe, and otherwise trustworthy."

“Responsible AI systems could bring enormous benefits, but only if we address their potential consequences and harms. For these systems to reach their full potential, companies and consumers need to be able to trust them,” said NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson.

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news ... ke-chatgpt
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