This week at the CES tech expo, AI took center stage as companies unveiled new products. Standout releases included LG and Samsung’s mobile smart home AI assistants and NVIDIA’s new chips for local AI processing. Additionally, OpenAI faced legal challenges, and AI’s impact on art, robotics, and societal risks was a significant theme.
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Welcome to our roundup of this week’s freshly picked organic AI news.
What happens in Vegas
This week Las Vegas was buzzing over the CES tech extravaganza where AI seemed to feature in every product release. Some standout product releases were the mobile smart home AI assistants that LG and Samsung unveiled. The projector on Ballie looks very cool. Running powerful AI models locally on devices got a big boost as NVIDIA announced new chips and tools that will be powering PCs and laptops in the next few months.
Where’s my robot?
The little house robots LG and Samsung released are cool but we were hoping for someone to release a commercially available robot like Optimus. Google released a suite of advanced robotic tools this week. If you’ve got $3,200 and a little tech know-how you could build one of these. Mobile ALOHA is an open-source low-cost mobile robot that could be your housekeeper.
OpenAI on the defense
OpenAI finally launched its GPT Store and its servers promptly got slammed. OpenAI published a public response to The Times lawsuit basically saying, ‘I thought we were cool. Why you mad?’
All shook up over AI art
The defense lawyers representing Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney will have to up their game. Some fancy AI magic was definitely involved in bringing back The King. Elvis Presley has gone through an AI resurrection to appear in holographic form for immersive shows.
Ctrl-Alt-Copilot
Microsoft added the Windows key to keyboards back in 1994. Three decades later it announced that a dedicated “Copilot” button will be added to Windows keyboards. Your laptop, phone, and EV batteries could soon become more efficient and cheaper. Microsoft researchers used AI to discover an ultra-efficient battery electrolyte that could reduce lithium usage in batteries by up to 70%.
Risky business
The argument over whether AI will save or doom humanity continues. A survey of 2,778 researchers asked their views on things like the risk of extinction-level impacts from AI. A genuine current risk that AI presents us with is that we can’t tell AI-generated faces from real ones. Job loss due to AI is often touted as a future risk but we’re seeing a lot of that happening already.
AI shines a light
Approximately three-quarters of the world’s large fishing vessels and a quarter of transport and energy ships operate as ‘dark vessels’, not publicly sharing their locations. NVIDIA is helping drug companies get a clearer picture of cellular functions and how cells react to drugs or genetic modifications.
In other news…
Here are some other clickworthy AI stories we enjoyed this week:
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