Category: Innovation

  • Make AI safe again

    Make AI safe again

    It is a fallacy to believe there is a trade-off between regulation and innovation French President Emmanuel Macron bumps fists with a robot during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week © Aurelien Morissard/ReutersJohn Thornhill February 13 2025When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in 1986 it was a catastrophe for those who…

  • Does investment research make sense in the age of AI?

    Does investment research make sense in the age of AI?

    Large language models can outperform analysts in some areas but human intuition is invaluable Markets strategist Byron Wien defined the best research as a non-consensus recommendation that turned out to be right The writer is a former global head of research at Morgan Stanley and former group head of research, data and analytics at UBS…

  • The truth about efficiency

    The truth about efficiency

    As our immune systems demonstrate, we need built-in redundancies to function during crisis The difference between medicine and poison lies in the dose. This truth speaks directly to government reform. As Washington prepares to launch an efficiency crusade, we must remember that efficiency, wrongly dosed, can sicken the very system it means to improve. This…

  • Video GenAI Prof. Mari

    Video GenAI Prof. Mari

    Raccolta di incontri con il prof Luca Mari sulla Gen IA

  • Hopfield e Hinton: il Nobel che unisce fisica e intelligenza artificiale

    Hopfield e Hinton: il Nobel che unisce fisica e intelligenza artificiale

    Il premio Nobel per la fisica assegnato a Hopfield e Hinton per le loro scoperte fondamentali nell’apprendimento automatico delle reti neurali artificiali e la loro connessione con la fisica. Alla base ci sono lavori pionieristici realizzati intorno alla metà del secolo scorso che, sulla base della neurofisiologia del cervello, proposero dei modelli matematici sempre più…

  • Artificial intelligence innovators win Nobel Prize for physics

    Artificial intelligence innovators win Nobel Prize for physics

    Geoffrey Hinton, co-recipient of award with John Hopfield, warns of potential dangers of the technology John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have won the physics Nobel Prize for formative work on artificial intelligence that has helped drive scientific advances but raised fears about the risks of abuse. The award highlights the fundamental role the AI field…

  • OpenAI released new API updates include Realtime API for speech-to-speech interaction

    OpenAI released new API updates include Realtime API for speech-to-speech interaction

    During OpenAI’s 2024 DevDay event, the company released new API updates include Realtime API for speech-to-speech interaction, vision fine-tuning for enhanced image recognition and analysis, model distillation to fine-tune smaller, cost-efficient models using outputs from more capable models, and prompt caching to speed up repeated queries by storing common prompts and responses. These innovations bring…

  • The semiconductor industry faces its biggest technical challenge yet

    The semiconductor industry faces its biggest technical challenge yet

    As Moore’s law fades, how can more transistors be fitted onto a chip? set 19, 2024 01:39 INSIDE A STERILE, cavernous building in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, the latest monster dreamed up by ASML, a maker of chipmaking gear, is quietly humming away. Weighing 150 tonnes and the size of a double-decker bus, the…