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UK government to address balancing energy sustainability with AI growth demands

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The government is turning its attention to ensuring its commitment to positioning the UK as an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower does not come at the expense of the environment or the nation’s energy security. It is a balancing act the UK’s newly formed AI Energy Council will be tasked with managing, while also exploring ways…

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Amazon’s new shopping agent is a glimpse of the future of AI

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I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of the ChatGPT images that have taken over the web for the better part of a week. OpenAI revealed that 130 million ChatGPT users created around 700 million AI images with its new tool.I get it. The service is cool, and the technology is amazing. I used…

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Keen to buy an RTX 5060 Ti? Benchmarks and more rumored sightings suggest you don’t have long to wait for Nvidia’s next GPU

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Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti has popped up in yet more sightingsAsus TUF and Prime models of the graphics card have been spottedOn top of that, leaked FurMark benchmarks have appeared, all of which adds to the pile of rumors suggesting the RTX 5060 Ti is about to arriveNvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti has appeared in multiple…

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Government needs to fix tech staff hiring process, says Whitehall’s AI boss

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The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has questioned tech experts on the government’s plans for the digital centre of government – or the new Government Digital Service (GDS). The committee examined the role of the new centre and whether the government’s digitisation of public services will be successful. Earlier this month, prime minister Keir Starmer…

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Public Accounts Committee calls out legacy IT

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The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has urged the government to fix legacy IT issues if it wants to succeed with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered public sector initiatives. The PAC’s Use of AI in government report noted that AI relies on high-quality data to learn. However, the committee was told by the Department for Science, Innovation and…

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Gartner on agentic AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

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Gartner defines agentic artificial intelligence (AI) as goal driven software entities that have been granted rights by the organisation to act on its behalf to make decisions autonomously. “They can be combined with AI techniques which have memory, planning, sensing, tooling and some guardrails to complete the task and achieve a particular goal,”  says Anushree…

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This is the difference between how humans and AI ‘think’

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Artificial intelligence is getting better at mimicking human language, solving problems, and even passing exams. But according to new research, it still can’t replicate one of the most fundamental parts of human cognition—how humans think.A recent study published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research examined how well large language models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4, handle analogical reasoning.…

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Military AI caught in tension between speed and control

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Military planners and industry figures say artificial intelligence (AI) can unlock back-office efficiency for the UK’s armed forces and help commanders make faster, better-informed decisions, but “intractable problems” baked into the technology could further reduce military accountability.  Speaking on a panel about the ethics of using autonomous technologies in warfare at the Alan Turing Institute-hosted…

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This AI can create talking characters that are good enough for a movie

4 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, Meta, Microsoft, Tech / By

ChatGPT’s ability to ignore copyright and common sense while creating images and deepfakes is the talk of the town right now. The image generator model that OpenAI launched last week is so widely used that it’s ruining ChatGPT’s basic functionality and uptime for everyone.But it’s not just advancements in AI-generated images that we’ve witnessed recently.…

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Podcast: AI data needs scalable flash, but also needs to be FAIR

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In this podcast, we talk to Quantum’s enterprise products and solutions manager, Tim Sherbak, about the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on data storage, and in particular about the difficulties of data storage over long periods and with very large volumes of data. We talk about the technical requirements AI places on storage, which could…

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