Bill Gates has shared his predictions for artificial intelligence in 2024, and he thinks it will ‘supercharge the innovation pipeline’.
The Microsoft founder reckons AI will accelerate the rate of new discoveries at a pace we’ve never seen before.
Gates believes high-income countries like the US are only 18–24 months away from significant levels of AI use by the general population.
He said the main lesson we need to learn about AI is that "the product must be tailored to the people who will use it”.
Toyota is to recall over a million vehicles over a potential airbag fault.
It covers models bought between 2020 and 2022, including various Avalon, Camry, Corolla, and RAV4 vehicles, as well as some Lexus E-models, the RX350 Highlander and Sienna Hybrid vehicles.
It’s thought a short circuit in these models' ‘Occupant Classification System’ sensors could cause their airbags not to deploy as designed.
The sensors distinguish between a child’s car seat and an adult passenger and deactivate an airbag when a person under a certain weight is in the seat.
A piece of artwork by famous Italian Renaissance artist Raphael may not entirely be his work, according to AI analysis.
Madonna della Rosa, a 16th Century painting featuring Mary holding an infant Jesus, Joseph, and a young John the Baptist is the subject of this latest discovery.
By looking into the microscopic detail of brush strokes, the colour palette, and the shading, an AI tool has determined Joseph’s face in the artwork was not painted by Raphael himself.
The UK’s supreme court has ruled that artificial intelligence cannot be legally named as an inventor of a device or product to secure patent rights.
It follows a case brought by technologist Dr Stephen Thaler, who claimed an AI machine he made, called DABUS, autonomously created both a food or drink container and a light beacon.
The supreme court concluded that “an inventor must be a person” in order to apply for patents under the current law, and also rejected Dr Thaler’s argument that he was entitled to apply for patents for DABUS inventions on the basis that he was the AI’s owner.
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