Artificial Intelligence Blogs
OpenAI hits back at DeepSeek with o3-mini reasoning: A Leaner, More Efficient AI Model model
OpenAI has just unveiled its latest reasoning model, o3-mini, a significant step forward in AI efficiency and accessibility. Designed to excel in coding, mathematics, and scientific problem-solving, this model is a response to increasing competition in the AI space,...
DeepSeek: The Chinese AI Startup Disrupting Global Tech Giants
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has recently made significant strides in artificial intelligence, challenging established Western tech giants. The company’s latest model, DeepSeek R1, has garnered attention for its advanced capabilities and cost-effective development....
AI-powered Daze Chat Set to Launch: A New Messaging Platform Tailored for Gen Z
A new messaging app, Daze Chat, is preparing to shake up the digital landscape with its official release on the Apple Store, expected on November 4, 2024. Designed specifically with Gen Z users in mind, Daze Chat promises to bring a fresh, personalized, and fun...
Introducing Computer Use, a New Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic has recently released a major update with the Claude 3.5 models, a key step forward in AI capabilities. Alongside the improvements in understanding, reasoning, and conversation, a standout feature is the AI’s ability to use computers effectively—making it...
AI2: Driving AI Innovation for Public Good in a Non-Profit Model
https://allenai.org Demo https://molmo.allenai.org Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative technologies of our time, offering immense potential to revolutionize industries, solve complex societal problems,...
OpenAI’s Shift to For-Profit: What It Means for AI Development
When OpenAI was founded in 2015, it entered the AI research world with a bold mission: to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Initially established as a non-profit, OpenAI was driven by a vision of transparency, collaboration,...
Microsoft’s VALL-E 2: significant milestone in the evolution of text-to-speech technology
Microsoft continues to break new ground in artificial intelligence with the introduction of VALL-E 2, the latest iteration of their cutting-edge text-to-speech (TTS) technology. This advanced system represents a significant leap...
Dutch Software Firm Shifts to Four-Day Weeks for Five Days’ Pay Thanks to AI
Leusden-based software company Afas has become the first major Dutch firm to switch to a four-day workweek while continuing to pay staff for five days, crediting artificial intelligence for making this move possible. Afas, which serves clients including construction...
NVIDIA Showcases Groundbreaking Visual AI Innovations at CVPR 2024
NVIDIA is showcasing its latest advancements in visual AI at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference in Seattle. These advancements cover a range of areas, including custom image creation, 3D scene editing, understanding visual language, and...
The Netherlands starts realisation GPT-NL, its own open AI-language model
The Netherlands will develop its own open language model: GPT-NL. This develops, strengthens and perpetuates digital sovereignty. Non-profit parties TNO, NFI and SURF are responsible for the realisation in order to take an important step towards a transparent, fair...
June 2024: Join the Month of AI in Education
June 2024 is all about exploring, changing and connecting the Netherlands around AI in education. We invite teachers, school leaders, foundation directors, policy advisers, entrepreneurs, scientists and all those other education professionals to share their knowledge...
From fashion photographer to AI creator
The blog DIY Photography has a long interview with former fashion and commercial photographer Ella Uzan, who changed careers to become an AI image creator: "I regard fashion as a truly magnificent domain, offering a profound intersection between spirit and matter,...
OpenAI Sora – Creating video from text
https://openai.com/sora Exciting news from the forefront of AI innovation: Meet Sora, the revolutionary AI model poised to redefine creative expression. Sora possesses the remarkable ability to craft lifelike and imaginative scenes based solely on textual...
13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music by composer Jennifer Walshe
Contemporary classical music composer Jennifer Walshe recently published an essay on "13 Ways of Looking at Ai, Art & Music" for the music festival Unsound. Her question is not so much what AI can technically do, but what its aesthetic implications are: "AI is Fan...
Perplexity – AI startup aspires to usurp Google’s search throne
https://www.perplexity.ai/ Perplexity Company, invested by Jeff Bezos and Nvidia, said it wants to usurp Google and change the way people search for information on the Internet. "We have raised $73.6 million from a funding round led by IVP, with investors including...
Nvidia, AMD release chips to support ‘running AI at home’
Nvidia announced three GPU graphics cards, while AMD also introduced CPUs capable of running AI locally on computers for individual users. At the event before the CES 2024 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 8, Nvidia introduced three GPU models...
How to use ChatGPT Plus “for free”
Microsoft's Copilot assistant, available for free download, features the large language model GPT-4 Turbo, which is only available on ChatGPT Plus for $20 per month. Copilot is available on Windows 10, Windows 11, 365, Android and iOS apps. By default, this virtual...
Transformers of the handwritten word by AI
Source: https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/transformers-of-the-handwritten-word/ Handwriting is an ancient technology. Perhaps the oldest evidence of writing are artifacts that have been found in what is present day Iraq and feature characters of the Sumerian language. These...
The 10 stages of AI development
Rule-based AI systems: These systems follow pre-programmed rules to perform tasks. They are limited to the rules they are programmed with and cannot learn or adapt to new situations. Context-based and retention systems: These systems equip AI with the ability to...
Google Bard AI summarizes YouTube videos
Bard, Google/Alphabet’s AI model that competes with OpenAI’s GPT, just got the feature of summarizing YouTube videos via a Google-provided plugin.
Mind-reading AI can translate brainwaves into written text
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2408019-mind-reading-ai-can-translate-brainwaves-into-written-text/ https://youtu.be/crJst7Yfzj4 A system that records the brain's electrical activity through the scalp can turn thoughts into words with help from a large language...
How AI Can HelpAccelerate Climate Action
Artificial intelligence has the potential to unlock insights to help mitigate 5-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, according to our new report with Boston Consulting Group. This can significantly bolster climate-related adaptation and resilience...
AGI (Artificial general intelligence)
Not to be confused with Generative artificial intelligence An artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of intelligent agent. If realized, an AGI could learn to accomplish any intellectual task that human beings or animals can perform....
The Netherlands starts realisation GPT-NL, its own open AI-language model
Source: https://www.surf.nl/en/news/the-netherlands-starts-realisation-gpt-nl-its-own-open-ai-language-model The Netherlands will develop its own open language model: GPT-NL. This develops, strengthens and perpetuates digital sovereignty. Non-profit parties TNO, NFI...
AI Tools that you can use for Art generator
in the workshop Basic AI on the Education Morning, I have shared some AI tools that can help you create arts, and here is the list of tools that I mentioned in the workshop: ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com/ A free version of ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) is available for anyone...
The history of AI
by Rockwell Anyoha (Harvard University) Can Machines Think? In the first half of the 20th century, science fiction familiarized the world with the concept of artificially intelligent robots. It began with the “heartless” Tin man from the Wizard of...
The current state of AI in Art Education
Personalized Learning: AI-driven platforms can curate personalized art lessons based on the learner's preferences, pace, and progress. For instance, if a student shows an inclination toward watercolors, the system might offer advanced lessons and resources on that...
ChatGPT and assessment: frameworks for usage
ChatGPT is a language model that generates a response in the form of written text based on prompts, written input. The use of this type of artificial intelligence is increasing among students and staff. Of course, this raises questions. What is correct and incorrect...
Education Morning 1st November about AI & Art Education
On this day we have 3 workshops about AI and Art Education: Open Source AI tools - Florian Cramer / Most people are familiar with AI tools developed by corporations and offered as proprietary black boxes, such as ChatGPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, or Google Translate. Fewer...
Artificial Intelligence: How will AI revolutionize the field of Art Education?
Art and technology have always intersected, but never as profoundly as in the age of Artificial Intelligence. AI is not just about algorithms and data; it’s about understanding and simulating human-like intelligence. How does AI relate to art? In many ways: 1....
