Selected news in AI
The proliferation of AI articles and news stories can be overwhelming. Here is a subset that might be of particular interest. Two sources are likely to be overrepresented, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, because although they are behind a paywall, this is not the case for Missouri University of Science and Technology people, by using the links provided from the library to establish a free account. Some other paywall sites might allow a small number of articles to be read before blocking the rest. While not absent from this list, they will be represented less frequently.
Some of the stories linked here are from the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, and behind a paywall. These are available for free for Missouri S&T students, faculty, and staff by using the library’s links, repeated below for convenience:
Amid a flurry of hype, Microsoft reorganizes entire dev team around AI
January 15, 2025
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a dramatic restructuring of the company’s engineering organization, which is pivoting the company’s focus to developing the tools that will underpin agentic AI.
A look at Vatican City’s new artificial intelligence law
January 15, 2025
The Vatican City State’s first decree regulating the use of artificial intelligence quietly came into effect this month prohibiting discriminatory uses of AI and establishing a special commission to oversee “experimentation” with the new technology at the Vatican.
Read more at catholicnewsagency.com
‘Bad Likert Judge’ Jailbreak Bypasses Guardrails of OpenAI, Other Top LLMs
January 3, 2025
A new jailbreak technique for OpenAI and other large language models (LLMs) increases the chance that attackers can circumvent cybersecurity guardrails and abuse the system to deliver malicious content.
This AI Paper from Tencent AI Lab and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Explores Overthinking in o1-Like Models for Smarter Computation
January 3, 2025
A new AI research paper by Tencent AI Lab and Shanghai Jiao Tong University explores the issue of overthinking in o1-like models and focuses on optimizing test-time computational resources.
How A.I. Could Reshape the Economic Geography of America
December 30, 2024
As the technology is widely adopted, some once-struggling midsize cities in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South may benefit, new research predicts.
How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs
December 30, 2024
Artificial intelligence often gets criticized because it makes up information that appears to be factual, known as hallucinations. The plausible fakes have roiled not only chatbot sessions but lawsuits and medical records. For a time last year, a patently false claim from a new Google chatbot helped drive down the company’s market value by an estimated $100 billion.
FDA Perspective on the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care and Biomedicine
December 30, 2024
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) must be matched by efforts to better understand and evaluate how AI performs across health care and biomedicine as well as develop appropriate regulatory frameworks. This Special Communication reviews the history of the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of AI; presents potential uses of AI in medical product development, clinical research, and clinical care; and presents concepts that merit consideration as the regulatory system adapts to AI’s unique challenges.
Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2025
December 30, 2024
Every December for the past decade, we’ve put on our futuristic glasses to predict the year ahead in tech. Looking back, we’ve gotten a lot right—and, OK, a few things wrong. Come on, who didn’t think Harry Potter’s augmented-reality adventure would be a smash hit?
Will AI Help or Hurt Workers? One 26-Year-Old Found an Unexpected Answer.
December 30, 2024
Daron Acemoglu, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who recently won the Nobel Prize in economics, worries that artificial intelligence will worsen income inequality and not do all that much for productivity. His friend and colleague David Autor is more hopeful, believing that AI could do just the opposite.
AEP US-China AI Paper
December 30, 2024
This American Edge Project (AEP) issue brief details the growing threat of China’s artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, including its open-source approach, to America’s national security, economic prosperity and core values. China is leveraging its open-source efforts to counter U.S. AI innovation, dominate key industries, embed Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-values into the globe’s infrastructure and align global technology governance with authoritarian principles.
China wants to dominate in AI — and some of its models are already beating their U.S. rivals
December 30, 2024
China’s attempts to dominate the world of artificial intelligence could be paying off, with industry insiders and technology analysts telling CNBC that Chinese AI models are already hugely popular and are keeping pace with — and even surpassing — those from the U.S. in terms of performance.
12 Days of OpenAI
December 30, 2024
Is the Tech Industry Already on the Cusp of an A.I. Slowdown?
December 30, 2024
Companies like OpenAI and Google are running out of the data used to train artificial intelligence systems. Can new methods continue years of rapid progress?
60 of our biggest AI announcements in 2024
December 30, 2024
It’s been a big year for Google AI. It may seem as though features like Circle to Search and NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews have been around for as long as you can remember, but they only launched in 2024. Joining them were a slew of other product releases and updates meant to make your day-to-day life even a little bit easier. So, as we say goodbye to 2024 (and prepare for the exciting AI news that’s sure to come in 2025), take a look at some of the top Google AI news stories that resonated with readers this year.
The 19th-Century Technology That Threatens A.I.
Whatever you hear about the United States as a fading power, it is ahead in the race to gain dominance in artificial intelligence over China, its major rival. That’s a product of Silicon Valley’s unique ability to bring together scientists, entrepreneurs and risk capital. Yet the prospect of continuing dominance in this 21st-century technology hinges on harnessing a 19th-century one: electricity.
MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures
MIT scientists have released a powerful, open-source AI model, called Boltz-1, that could significantly accelerate biomedical research and drug development.
Artificial Intelligence in 2030
At the DealBook Summit, ten experts in artificial intelligence discussed the greatest opportunities and risks posed by the technology.