A remarkable startup is developing a groundbreaking AI system that promises to give creators unprecedented capabilities for generating cinematic worlds. The company, named Odyssey, employs a unique approach: having staff carry specialized camera systems to gather scene data from around the globe. Founded by autonomous driving experts Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, Odyssey recently completed an $18 million Series A funding round led by EQT Ventures.

Apple Inc. recently launched the next generation AI system Ferret-UI 2. This cross-platform AI assistant has made significant breakthroughs in UI element recognition, achieving a test score of 89.73, far surpassing GPT-4V's score of 77.73, demonstrating exceptional performance. The most notable feature of this system is its intelligent ability to understand user intent. Unlike traditional coordinate-based interaction methods, Ferret-UI 2 can automatically locate and execute relevant actions based on users' natural language commands.

Singapore has recently announced a series of important measures in cybersecurity, particularly regarding safety guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and legislation banning the use of deepfake technology in election advertising. These initiatives aim to help organizations mitigate potential risks during the development and deployment of AI, ensuring the security of the technology. Image Credit: The image is generated by AI and licensed through Midjourney. The 'AI System Security Guidelines' launched by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) emphasize the concept of 'security by design.'

On the stage of scientific research, MIT's team has just introduced a new 'Research Agent' - SciAgents, an AI system capable of conducting research autonomously. Its powerful capabilities are truly impressive. In research on bio-inspired materials, SciAgents revealed some previously considered unrelated interdisciplinary connections, successfully achieving a scale, precision, and exploratory capacity that surpass conventional human research. SciAgents is a 'super assistant' in the research community. This intelligent system can independently read literature, confirm

Recently, hundreds of social workers in England have started using an artificial intelligence system called 'Magic Notes'. This tool can record face-to-face conversations, analyze the content, and draft letters and suggest follow-up actions for social workers, helping them complete their work more effectively. The councils using this AI tool include Swinton, Barnet, and Kingston, with a total of seven councils currently using it. The 'Magic Notes' tool can quickly write meeting summaries and propose ideas that social workers may not have considered.

The AI systems relied upon by autonomous vehicles play a critical role in decision-making, environmental perception, and predictive modeling. However, research from the University at Buffalo has unveiled the risks of these systems potentially being subjected to attacks. The study indicates that while current research is conducted in controlled environments, the discovered vulnerabilities in AI models related to radar detection could have far-reaching implications for the industry. 'Brick masks' made with 3D printing and metal foils can make vehicles 'disappear' in radar detection and potentially interfere with pedestrian detection. The motivations behind such attack methods include insurance fraud, competition, or malicious harm.

The Oklahoma City Police Department is experimenting with the AI chatbot 'Draft One' to generate reports in order to save time. Developed by Axon, the system utilizes ChatGPT technology to quickly produce reports from audio recordings. Supporters believe this could significantly improve efficiency, but critics are concerned about potential errors, biases, and the risks of power abuse that automation could bring. Activist Aurelius Francisco expresses discomfort with the use of AI and tasers from the same company, fearing potential misuse.

Xincheng Lingo is the first end-to-end speech large model in China, with internal testing reservations now open. This model is considered to be close in capability to GPT-4, marking a significant breakthrough for China in the field of speech AI. The core advantages of Xincheng Lingo include native speech understanding, diverse speech style expression, and efficient speech modality compression. It can recognize textual information in speech and capture other important features, providing a natural and vibrant interaction experience, and adjusting speech styles flexibly according to context and user instructions. With a high compression rate speech codec, Xincheng Lingo...

The UK's railway system has introduced artificial intelligence technology for the first time, developing an Automated Deer Detection and Deterrent System (ADDS) that successfully prevents nearly 6000 deer from entering railway areas, ensuring railway safety. This system was collaboratively developed by Network Rail and London North Eastern Railway, utilizing 127 cameras, 90 ultrasonic alarms, flashing red and white lights, 10 Wi-Fi routers, and portable power supplies to monitor deer movements in real-time and drive them away. Since its implementation, the system's real-time monitoring footage has effectively stopped deer from approaching the railway, reducing animal intrusions.

The research team at Tsinghua University has successfully developed the 'LongWriter' artificial intelligence system, which can generate coherent texts exceeding 10,000 words, paving new avenues for long-form writing and content creation. By constructing the 'LongWriter-6k' dataset, which includes 6,000 writing samples, the research team has increased the maximum output length of the AI model from approximately 2,000 words to over 10,000 words. This innovative achievement not only enhances the AI's performance in long text generation tasks but even surpasses larger-scale models.

Xiaomi is set to unveil its latest flagship smartphone series, the Xiaomi 15 Series, in October. This series will be the first to come pre-installed with the next-generation Surge OS 2.0 operating system. The new system will focus on all-scenario intelligence and cross-platform connectivity, marking Xiaomi's full transition to an AI-driven system experience rather than just integrating AI features into applications.

Recently, an international team of researchers from China and Singapore successfully developed the world's first multi-modal artificial intelligence system for diabetes diagnosis and treatment, DeepDR-LLM. The research findings were published in Nature Medicine on July 19, 2024.

Recently, the Japanese publishing industry has issued a stern warning about AI-driven search engines, arguing that these emerging technologies are eroding the foundations of the news industry. The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association has stated that AI search engines are exploiting the content of news media without fair compensation, a phenomenon known as "free-riding." This means that AI systems profit from news content without providing support for its creation and the news ecosy

Recently, Meta's plan to use user data to train its artificial intelligence systems has sparked widespread public concern. This plan involves not only public data but also non-public user data. This move has been challenged under the UK's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), especially in complaints from the Open Rights Group.The organization has submitted a complaint to the UK Information Commissioner's Office, demanding an investigation into Meta's privacy policy. According to Meta, thes

Recently, the Northern District Court of California made a ruling in a copyright lawsuit that has attracted widespread attention, partially dismissing the claims against GitHub Copilot programming tool and its former underlying technology, OpenAI Codex. This decision may set a precedent for new technology tools that train with copyrighted data. The lawsuit was filed by the law firm of Joseph Saveri in 2022, with the plaintiff claiming that GitHub and OpenAI allowed Copilot and Codex to copy sour

A new study has developed a new AI tool that makes it easier to detect lies, but only some people agree to use it. Traditional lie detectors appear to measure a person's breathing rate, pulse, blood pressure, and sweating to determine if they are lying, but this 85-year-old technology has long been proven incorrect by scientists. Essentially, the possibility of false positives and the subjectivity of interpreting the results greatly weaken the practicality of lie detectors. Notably, their result

At the press conference on January 10, Honor unveiled its new platform-level AI large model - Magic Model, which will be applied for the first time in the upcoming Honor Magic6 series. It also launched MagicOS 8.0, the latest integrated system that realizes a GenAI platform-level system based on user intent recognition capabilities. The intent recognition interaction speed of Honor Magic OS 8.0 is extremely fast, completing operations in just 1 second, far surpassing iOS 17's 10 seconds.

Apple is actively in discussions with several well-known news and publishing organizations to advance its artificial intelligence systems. They have reached out to news agencies such as Condé Nast, NBC News, and IAC to seek permissions for using archives of news articles. Internally, Apple is also developing a service similar to ChatGPT for testing new features, summarizing text, and answering knowledge-based questions. A research paper by an Apple machine learning engineer reveals their innovations in LLM inference, especially regarding deployment on memory-constrained devices.