New Training for AI, but that's not led to a fall from grace...

Tech News for the week of 16 June, part 2

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Walter Wimberly
June 23, 2024

Welcome back my Tech Curious friend. I’m so glad you’re here. Below you can find information about the most recent tech news.

It is a little shorter this week, as I’ve been traveling, but it’s still worth the quick read… So let’s get started.

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Training Robots is Different…

When most people think AI taking over, they think of Robots, and for good reason. As cool as ChatGPT, and similar LLMs are, they are pure software. So how do you train a robot?

Turns out Stanford is training robots in a similar way to how we train new employees, but having the robot shadow (follow and watch) people.

HumanPlus uses a camera and a whole-body policy to cloning human motion. Researchers are saying it needs about 40 hours to learn an entire process from a human and so far has learned things like boxing and playing the piano.

More impressive is how cheap it was to make, and that it is open source.

If we’re smart we’ll never show it Army training videos on how to become a soldier.

A New LLM

Speaking of training, a new LLM has just his the market. While OpenAI might be the best known LLM on the Internet, this week Anthropic is released their new generative AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

They are claiming it is faster and more powerful than any other model. And while it’s just beating some of it’s rivals, in AI, any improvement is improvement worth mentioning.

Plus, its even available to the free users.

Nvidia’s Fall From #1

Those who know me, know, I hate market cap as a way to measure the size of a business. Too much is based upon the stock price which can fluctuate.

And just as Nvidia became the #1 company in the US stock market last week, a slight dip has caused it’s value to drop to #2… if only for a short while.

Apple Intelligence Delayed in Europe

Apple is delaying the release of its Apple Intelligence tech to EU users. The issue is concerns that the EU’s new Digital Markets Act could require it to “compromise the integrity of our products in ways that risk user privacy and data security.”

Those who know me, know how much frustration I have with the EU’s tech laws. They are often written by people without any tech experience/knowledge, and can hamper innovation - like this. At the same time, they can be helpful, such as the major fine that Apple may have to pay because they block content publishers from redirecting consumers to cheaper web versions.

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