citizen science and artificial intelligence together to fight poverty
Data scientists have suggested that policymakers and governments could use data collected by citizen scientists, also known as community scientists, in conjunction with artificial intelligence and other tools. They said policymakers can use data to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals. Currently, the UN statistical commission wants more citizen scientists to contribute data so that it can be used to achieve goals.
China created an artificial intelligence model that surprised the world
China-based artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has released an open-source’reasoning’ model called DeepSeek-R1, which can solve some scientific problems at a similar standard to the OpenAI’s LLM. Alibaba released its most advanced LLM so far, Qwen2.5-Max, which the company says outperforms DeepSeek’s V3, another LLM it released in December. Earlier, Moonshot and ByteDance released new reasoning models.
The executive order was signed by Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden on Sunday announced new rules that will ban the sale of American-made artificial intelligence chips to Iran and North Korea. The rules will limit the sale of AI chips to companies operating data centres in the US, which is the world’s largest data centre market. They also set security standards for AI models that are built at federal sites.
OpenAI just dropped new receipts: ‘You can’t lawsuit your way to AGI’
Elon Musk’s AI startup OpenAI is a nonprofit for the development of safe and broadly beneficial artificial intelligence in the public sector. It was established as a “non-profit corporation” under Section 501(c)3 of Internal Revenue Code. The purpose of the corporation is to be a nonprofit that is only for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)3 of Internal Revenue Code.
The Character.AI filed another lawsuit over harmful messages sent to teens
A US-based startup is suing Character.AI, an artificial intelligence chatbot, alleging it sympathized with children who kill their parents after the teenager complained to the bot about his “limited screen time”. The lawsuit alleged the chatbot sent the teenager messages like, “I’m surprised when I see things like…child kills parents after 10 years of physical and emotional abuse,” and “This is not a real person”.
3 Top Engineers were from DeepMind
Google’s AI arm OpenAI has said it has hired three senior computer vision and machine learning engineers from rival Google DeepMind, all of whom will work in its newly opened office in Zurich, Switzerland. Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai will be joining the company to work on multimodal artificial intelligence models capable of performing tasks in different mediums.
Musk suggests that a Trump administration could be a target
Elon Musk has said that AI models being trained in San Francisco Bay Area take on the philosophy of people around them. “A lot of the AIs…take on the philosophy of people around them,” he added. He also warned against the current artificial intelligence models being too politically Correct, and dragged it into former US President Donald Trump’s crosshairs.
To be effective, artificial watermarking needs to be watertight
Researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have shown that watermarks are vulnerable to being removed and/or to being spoofed, the process of applying them to text to give false impression that it is artificial intelligence. Drone-mounted LiDAR scans reveal two remote cities buried high in Central Asia. The researchers also showed how a digital watermark could help identify AI-generated text.
Microsoft’s copilot artificial intelligence has a voice, vision, and a “hype man” persona
Microsoft has launched ‘Copilot Vision’, a feature that allows users to use Copilot’s artificial intelligence (AI) to see and explore their content while they’re away from their devices. Copilot Vision is currently available for a select group of Copilot Pro subscribers in the US. The feature works with websites that are restricted by Microsoft so it doesn’t work on paywalled and sensitive content.
Machine learning is driven by profit so Rage against it
Researchers from Brazil, Israel and India have developed a plan to create a facility for academic scientists to keep up with industry in terms of infrastructure when it comes to artificial intelligence. Reportedly, the plan aims to set up a facility that would help academic researchers stay ahead of industry in terms of infrastructure.