FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron has appointed top EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as his next Prime Minister. After weeks of talks right-wing technocrat Barnier, 73, who led the EU’s talks with…
When Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind in 2010, he had a 20-year plan culminating in the creation of artificial general intelligence (AGI), an AI system that can do practically any cognitive…
About 5 years ago, Sasha Luccioni was researching ways AI could help tackle climate change when a single question prompted her to rethink: What if AI was part of the…
In 2023, the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), an arm of the Abu Dhabi government, spent millions of dollars building a series of large language models. ATRC secretary general Faisal…
Developing artificial general intelligence (AGI)—or an AI smart as a human—is the “north star” for Amazon’s Rohit Prasad, who jumped from being Alexa’s head scientist to running a newly-created Amazon…