Nukes For FB

"Meta turns to nuclear energy for its AI ambitions"

Fatal Names For AI

"Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why"

Robots With Facial Expressions

"Honda's 12-inch robot talks to people with facial expressions, speeds up tasks by 900%". (Via H.R.)

Fano And Huffman

A fun historical tidbit on information theory.

In 1951, Robert M. Fano, a professor at MIT, assigned his information theory students a deceptively simple-sounding problem as a final term paper: find the most efficient way to represent numbers, letters, or symbols using binary code.

What he didn't reveal was that this was an… pic.twitter.com/xYiQP41wzc

— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) November 27, 2024

More information on Huffman's breakthrough here.

Holiday Hiatus

Admin note: Geekpress will take a short holiday break because of the US Thanksgiving Holiday. See you all next week!

Deep Learning Origins

"How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom". (Via H.R.)

Government AI Initiative

"US government commission pushes Manhattan Project-style AI initiative"

Unmanned Bicycle Paths

"Paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over" 

AI And Search

"The Death of Search"

AI Agents

"Move over chatbots, AI agents are the next big thing. What are they?"

The new AI agents include the Interpreter agent that allows for real-time interpretation in up to nine languages in Microsoft Teams meetings. The Interpreter agent, which will be in preview early next year, gives meeting participants the ability to speak and listen to meetings in the language of their choice. The agent can also simulate a participant's voice.

Robot Jailbreak

IEEE: "It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots"

Better iPhone Security

"A new iOS 18 security feature makes it harder for police to unlock iPhones"

AI Art Turing Test

"How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?"

Musk On AI

Elon Musk predicts upcoming AI developments, per @amitisinvesting on Twitter/X:

$TSLA

ELON MUSK MADE SOME NEW STATEMENTS TODAY IN A VIDEO HE POSTED TO X WHILE PLAYING VIDEO GAMES:

1. "2026, at the latest, we'll have AGI."

2. "Optimus is really going to be next level. It will be able to pick up your kids from school, it can be schools for your kids."

3.… pic.twitter.com/FENd2MeVZw

— amit (@amitisinvesting) November 19, 2024

 

Long Chile

"Chile: The Ridiculously Long Country with Unique Geography and Natural Beauty"

Crypto-Friendly Government

Cryptocurrency supporters and traders will have a much friendlier administration to deal with in a couple of months. Per the WSJ, "Exclusive: Trump to Meet Privately With Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong"

School Deepfake Scandal

"Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school"

An AI-generated nude photo scandal has shut down a Pennsylvania private school. On Monday, classes were canceled after parents forced leaders to either resign or face a lawsuit potentially seeking criminal penalties and accusing the school of skipping mandatory reporting of the harmful images.