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Alphabet 's AI lab, DeepMind, cut employee costs by 39% last year, according to a recent filing with a U.K. government agency. For the 2022 financial year, staff costs and other related expenses were 594.5 million pounds (nearly $731 million), down from 969.4 million pounds (nearly $1.2 billion) in 2021 — translating to an almost 39% reduction in employee costs, per the filing. Following DeepMind's employee cost cuts in 2022, Alphabet executives discussed plans to allocate resources to key revenue drivers, such as AI, on its first-quarter earnings call of 2023. "Beginning in the second quarter of 2023, the costs associated with teams and activities transferred from Google Research will move from Google Services to Google DeepMind within Alphabet's unallocated corporate costs," Pichai said during a spring earnings call. DeepMind's 2022 profit was about 60.9 million pounds (nearly $74.9 million), down from 102.4 million pounds (nearly $126 million) in 2021 — a decrease of more than 40%.
Persons: DeepMind, Sundar Pichai, Pichai Organizations: Google, Google Research, Google Services Locations: Edmonton, Canada
What the Nobel Prizes get wrong about science
  + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
Peter Brzezinski, the secretary of the committee for the Nobel chemistry prize, said there were no plans to change the rule. He said the Nobel Prize committees, at least for science prizes, are “innately conservative.”DiversityOther criticism leveled at the Nobel Prizes includes the lack of diversity among winners. Of course, these flaws and gaps only matter because the Nobels are far better known than other science prizes, Rees added. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will be announced on Monday, followed by the physics prize on Tuesday and the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday. The Nobel Prize for literature and the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Thursday and Friday, respectively.
Persons: Alfred Nobel, Martin Rees, Rees, , Jonathan Nackstrand, Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, Kip Thorne, David Pendlebury, “ Nobel, ” Pendlebury, Nobel’s, Peter Brzezinski, , ” Brzezinski, John Jumper, AlphaFold, Lasker, Pendlebury, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, it’s, Carolyn Bertozzi, Andrea Ghez, Naomi Oreskes, Henry Charles Lea, ” Rees Organizations: CNN, Royal Society, Getty, Clarivate’s Institute for Scientific, Nobel Foundation, Academy, Google, Harvard University Locations: Swedish, AFP, Stockholm
Cathie Wood says a U.K.-founded company is "one of the best AI companies in the world." It now operates as Google DeepMind. This year, Alphabet said it's merging DeepMind with an internal Google Research team called Brain . It's a move designed to bring two groups focused on AI closer together as the battle for AI heats up. Google is racing to compete with Microsoft and other tech companies in AI, with Microsoft already making huge strides with its investment in OpenAI.
Persons: Cathie Wood, Ark, CNBC's, DeepMind, Wood Organizations: Google, Google Research, Microsoft, Wednesday Locations: OpenAI
Google DeepMind researchers published a study on September 7 on how simple prompts could improve AI's accuracy. "Take a deep breath and work on this problem step by step" was the most effective phrase tested, per the study. When the phrase was used, Google's PaLM 2 AI model was 80% accurate with math problems, compared to 34% without it. Meanwhile, prompting the AI with "let's think step by step" saw an increase in accuracy to 71%. Some companies are even hiring "prompt engineers" who specialize in crafting questions and phrases for AI to improve its responses.
Persons: ChatGPT's, Anna Bernstein Organizations: Google, Service, University of Tokyo Locations: Wall, Silicon
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REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 19 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy venture plans to build a computing system powered by artificial intelligence for life sciences research to study human cells and diseases. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, created by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, will use the computing system to run openly available AI models, the philanthropy venture said on Tuesday. AI has been used in the life sciences domain for some years. The system will be trained on datasets from software tool CZ Cell x Gene, as well as resources from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging, and publicly available data. The company released its latest Llama 2 model in July, and offered it for free to businesses of a certain size.
Persons: Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Chan, Beck, Mark, Chan Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Nvidia's, Yuvraj Malik, Shounak Dasgupta Organizations: Initiative, UCSF, REUTERS, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Google, Imaging, Meta, Thomson Locations: Bay, San Francisco , California, U.S, Bengaluru
When the summer began, ChatGPT traffic suddenly fell. One hypothesis stood out: Millions of students went on summer break, so they didn't need ChatGPT to cheat — er, I mean research. Back when summer began, online search interest in Minecraft jumped, while ChatGPT interest declined. Mark Shmulik, a top internet analyst at Bernstein, made this point at the start of the summer, when usage fell. "This idea that if the ChatGPT drop-off is due to students on summer break, that implies a narrower audience and fewer use cases."
Persons: ChatGPT, OpenAI's, they're, François, Mark Shmulik, Bernstein, OpenAI, Shakespeare Organizations: Service, Google Locations: Wall, Silicon, Minecraft
"Generative AI is just a phase. What's next is interactive AI," said Mustafa Suleyman, the cofounder of Google DeepMind. His company, Inflection AI, launched its chatbot Pi as a rival to ChatGPT in May, focusing on personal advice and being conversational. For context, we are currently seeing the rise of generative AI tools that go beyond the chat interface popularized by ChatGPT in November. Suleyman and Inflection AI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.
Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Ethan Mollick, Jasper Organizations: Google, Service, MIT Technology, ChatGPT, Investors, Wall Street Locations: Wall, Silicon
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. should allow Nvidia's (NVDA.O) artificial intelligence (AI) chips only to buyers who agree to ethically use the technology, Google DeepMind's co-founder Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times on Friday. The US should enforce minimum global standards for the use of AI, and companies should at a minimum agree to abide by the same pledge made by leading AI firms to the White House, Suleyman said. "The US should mandate that any consumer of Nvidia chips signs up to at least the voluntary commitments — and more likely, more than that," Suleyman said. Mustafa Suleyman is also the chief executive of Inflection AI, a Microsoft-backed AI startup that raised $1.3 billion in June from Nvidia and other firms. In May, Inflection released an AI chatbot named Pi that uses generative AI technology to interact with users through conversations, in which people can ask questions and share interests.
Persons: Dado Ruvic, Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Lavanya, Rashmi Organizations: NVIDIA, REUTERS, Google, Financial, White, Nvidia, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: U.S, China, Bengaluru
Google DeepMind is working on new tools that could function as a personal life coach, per the NYT. DeepMind, Google's AI arm, is working on ambitious new tools that could function as a personal life coach, The New York Times reported. That includes the ability to give users life advice, ideas, planning instructions, and tutoring tips. Such AI would naturally involve users exploring tense or complicated situations in their personal lives, and implementing the advice of a chatbot. Over 100 experts with doctorates have been contracted in by ScaleAI to help test the capabilities of the life coach tool, the NYT reported.
Persons: ScaleAI, DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman —, Replika Organizations: Google, The New York Times, The Times
Among other things, the workers are testing the assistant’s ability to answer intimate questions about challenges in people’s lives. safety experts had said in December that users could experience “diminished health and well-being” and a “loss of agency” if they took life advice from A.I. They had added that some users who grew too dependent on the technology could think it was sentient. And in March, when Google launched Bard, it said the chatbot was barred from giving medical, financial or legal advice. Bard shares mental health resources with users who say they are experiencing mental distress.
Persons: Google’s, Bard, Organizations: Google
One of Google's AI units is using generative AI to develop at least 21 different tools for life advice, planning and tutoring, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Google's DeepMind has become the "nimble, fast-paced" standard-bearer for the company's AI efforts, as CNBC previously reported, and is behind the development of the tools, the Times reported. Google has reportedly contracted with Scale AI, the $7.3 billion startup focused on training and validating AI software, to test the tools. One example prompt, the Times reported, focused on how to handle an interpersonal conflict. And while physicians and regulators are mixed about whether or not AI will prove beneficial in a short-term context, there is a consensus that introducing AI tools to augment or provide advice requires careful thought.
Persons: Sundar Pichai, Google's DeepMind, Bard chatbot, Tessa chatbot Organizations: Inc, Google, O, New York Times, CNBC, Times, The New York Times Locations: Mountain View , California, The
There is an influx of cash and interest into artificial intelligence startups right now. Insider spoke to ex-Google DeepMind staffers who have founded AI startups in stealth. He isn't the only DeepMind alum working on practical applications of artificial intelligence. Last month, Mistral, an AI startup founded by DeepMind alum, secured $113 million in seed funding from Lightspeed just four weeks after it launched. He has since been working on his second AI startup in stealth mode since June 2023, adding that working under the radar was inspired by DeepMind's "own model of working in stealth."
Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Devang Agrawal, Jonathan Godwin, DeepMind, Godwin, Simon Kohl, Ang Li, isn't, Li, Simon Menashy, Adam Liska, Demis Hassabis, GlyphicAI's Agrawal, Mehdi Ghissassi, OpenAI's, Agrawal, Karl Moritz Hermann, DeepMind's Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Labs, MMC Ventures, DeepMind, Lightspeed Locations: DeepMind, London, California
Brin is frequently showing up at Google HQ to help its AI efforts, The Wall Street Journal reported. He is reportedly deeply involved in the development of Gemini, an AI model that aims to rival GPT-4. Google cofounder Sergey Brin is reportedly showing up often at the search giant's headquarters to help develop ChatGPT rival Gemini and boost its AI ambitions. Google is pouring efforts into Gemini, an AI model designed to rival the GPT-4 model underlying OpenAI's technology. This week, Google's AI ambitions faced another threat as Meta unveiled Llama 2.
Persons: Sergey Brin, Brin, GPT, Larry Page, Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis Organizations: Google, Street Journal, Gemini, Morning, The New York Times, Wall Street, Meta, Microsoft Locations: The
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"High level, we want this to become something like your personal AI friend," said developer Div Garg, whose company MultiOn is beta-testing an AI agent. The race towards increasingly autonomous AI agents has been supercharged by the March release of GPT-4 by developer OpenAI, a powerful upgrade of the model behind ChatGPT - the chatbot that became a sensation when released last November. GPT-4 facilitates the type of strategic and adaptable thinking required to navigate the unpredictable real world, said Vivian Cheng, an investor at venture capital firm CRV who has a focus on AI agents. OpenAI itself is very interested in AI agent technology, according to four people briefed on its plans. There are at least 100 serious projects working to commercialize agents, said Matt Schlicht, who writes a newsletter on AI.
Persons: Siri, Alexa, Tony Stark's, Kanjun Qiu, Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, Qiu, OpenAI, Vivian Cheng, CRV, Aravind Srinivas, Jarvis, Yoshua Bengio, Satya Nadella, Apple's Siri, it's, Google, Edward Grefenstette, Jason Franklin, WVV Capital, Hesam Motlagh, Matt Schlicht, Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Kenneth Li Organizations: Microsoft, Google, U.S . Federal Trade Commission, Reuters, FTC, OpenAI's, Financial Times, Amazon, Alexa, Investors, WVV, Google Ventures, Entrepreneurs, Thomson Locations: Silicon, Jarvis, GPT, Cognosys, San Francisco, Palo Alto
Top AI researchers have been leaving for startups where their work can have more impact. That frustration over Google's slow movement has been corroborated by other former Google researchers who spoke to Insider. Niki Parmar left Google Brain after five years to serve as a cofounder and CTO of Adept, though in November, she left to found a stealth startup. Lukasz Kaiser left Google Brain after working there for more than seven years to join OpenAI in 2021. Sharan Narang, another contributor to the T5 paper, left Google Brain in 2022 after four years there.
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In April, Google made a dramatic move to face down the threat from Microsoft and OpenAI: it combined its AI research team, Brain, with DeepMind. By fusing it with its central AI unit, Google sent an unambiguous message that it was pulling out all the stops to supercharge its work in AI. Insider obtained internal org charts that reveal the new power structure of Google DeepMind. Hassabis oversees around 2,450 full-time employees, the majority of which are Google DeepMind employees. Dean, who previously oversaw all of Google's AI unit, has moved from his management position into the new role of Chief Scientist, reporting directly to CEO Sundar Pichai.
Persons: DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, There's, Hassabis, Eli Collins, Bard chatbot, Zoubin Ghahramani, Jeff Dean, Koray, Google's, Dean, Sundar Pichai, Emanuel Taropa Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Brain, Research, Technology, Gemini, General Intelligence
June 29 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence startup Inflection AI said on Thursday it had raised $1.3 billion in funding from a clutch of investors including Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Bill Gates. The funding comes less than two months after the company, founded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, released its chatbot, Pi. Similar to OpenAI's popular ChatGPT, Pi uses generative AI technology to interact with users through dialogues, allowing people to ask questions and share feedback. Hoffman, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and NVIDIA (NVDA.O) also participated in the latest funding round, the company said. Reporting by Niket Nishant in Bengaluru Editing by Vinay DwivediOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Niket, Vinay Dwivedi Organizations: Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, NVIDIA, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoJune 29 (Reuters) - Inflection AI, a startup backed by several Silicon Valley heavyweights, said on Thursday it had raised $1.3 billion from investors including Microsoft and Nvidia, amid a boom in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. Inflection released its chatbot Pi last month. Pi uses generative AI technology, similar to ChatGPT, to interact with users through dialogues, allowing people to ask questions and share feedback. Palo Alto, California-based Inflection AI has about 35 employees. Nvidia (NVDA.O), which has stepped up its AI investments recently, Hoffman, Bill Gates and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt also participated in the latest round, Inflection said.
Persons: Dado Ruvic, Google DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman, Pi, Suleyman, OpenAI, Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Niket, Krystal Hu, Vinay Dwivedi, Conor Humphries Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, LinkedIn, Collision, Thomson Locations: Alto , California, Greylock, Bengaluru, Toronto
Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said AI will ultimately be a boon to the job market. He predicts AI will propel "millions of startups," even as jobs at existing companies could decrease. Chesky is one of many business leaders that has weighed in on AI this year. He anticipates that the technology will propel "millions of new startups," he told investor Jason Calacanis on a recent episode of This Week In Startups. While many in the business world have said AI could profoundly impact innovation and the economy, business leaders, including Warren Buffett, are skeptical.
Persons: Airbnb, Brian Chesky, Jason Calacanis, Calcanis, , Chesky, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk Organizations: CNBC, Google, Center, AI Safety
Left to right: Microsoft's CTO Kevin Scott, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Joy Malone/David Ryder/Bloomberg/Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ImagesSome AI industry experts say that focusing attention on far-off scenarios may distract from the more immediate harms that a new generation of powerful AI tools can cause to people and communities, including spreading misinformation, perpetuating biases and enabling discrimination in various services. “Motives seemed to be mixed,” Gary Marcus, an AI researcher and New York University professor emeritus who testified before lawmakers alongside Altman last month, told CNN. In his testimony before Congress, Altman also said the potential for AI to be used to manipulate voters and target disinformation were among “my areas of greatest concern.”Even in more ordinary use cases, however, there are concerns. Influencing regulatorsRegulators may be the real intended audience for the tech industry’s doomsday messaging.
Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Demis Hassabis, Kevin Scott, Elon Musk, Joy Malone, David Ryder, Joel Saget, ” Gary Marcus, , Marcus, Gary Marcus, Eric Lee, Emily Bender, Bender, ” Bender, , we’re Organizations: CNN, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Getty, New York University, OpenAI, University of Washington, Laboratory, Washington Locations: Valley, AFP, Washington , DC, Congress
Investors plowed about $25 billion into AI companies in the first three months of 2023. Other US generative AI startups including Adept, Inflection AI, Pinecone and Runway have all raised major rounds in the last few months. AI is minting unicorn-valued companies even in the tech downturnFunding into AI startups was down slightly for the full-year in 2022, matching a broader downturn in tech funding. And VC funding to generative AI startups specifically, many of which are very early-stage businesses, topped $1.7 billion in Q1 2023, per Pitchbook. "No one wants to invest in AI that's going to wipe out humanity," said AlbionVC's Grimm.
Persons: Warren Buffett, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Imran Ghory, Meta, Little, ChatGPT, David Grimm, Nathan Benaich, Benaich, VCs, Geoffrey Hinton, AlbionVC's Grimm Organizations: Blossom, Google, Facebook, Air Street Capital, Investors, EU, Stanford University, Venture Locations: OpenAI, London, Europe, French
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A content writer is turning to trade work after OpenAI's ChatGPT wiped out his business. Eric Fein told the Washington Post he was dropped by 10 clients who replaced him with the chatbot. A content writer is turning to trade work after OpenAI's ChatGPT wiped out his business. Trade work is predicted to be one of the industries least affected by advances in artificial intelligence. However, white-collar roles in administration and legal industries were cited as some of the most at risk while trade work saw minimal impact from the new technology.
Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Eric Fein, ChatGPT, Fein, Goldman Sachs, Mustafa Suleyman Organizations: Washington Post, Google
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