Weekly Roundup AI - July 13

OpenAI’s Five Step to AGI

July 12, 2024

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Good morning. In today's newsletter, we will be sharing the latest selected news and about the AI world and AI guide.

In today’s topics:

  • OpenAI’s Five Step to AGI

  • Gemini 1.5 Pro to Help Robots Understand

  • Microsoft and Apple Have Withdrawn from OpenAI's Board of Directors

  • Samsung Has Just Introduced its Newest AI-powered Foldable Smartphones

  • Anthropic Announced a New Upgrade for Claude

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OpenAI’s Five Step to AGI

The Veroneus: According to Bloomberg, OpenAI internally introduced a five-step system to progress AI to the human level.

The Details:

  • OpenAI uses a classification system that ranges from Level 1 to Level 5. Currently, OpenAI believes its technology is at Level 1 but is approaching Level 2, which is referred to as 'Reasoners.

  • Level 2 AI can solve basic problems like a PhD-level human without tools, while Level 3 can take action for users. The company demonstrated a GPT-4 project showing human-like reasoning, indicating progress towards Level 2.

The Importance: OpenAI's system clarifies AGI progress, suggesting rapid advancement despite early-stage status.

Gemini 1.5 Pro to Help Robots Understand

The Veroneus: Google DeepMind has published new research in the domain of Robot Navigation, with Gemini 1.5 Pro applying its large context window in enabling robots to interpret complex environments and navigate a host of locations using human instructions.

The Details:

  • The robots are given something similar to a video tour of an environment with key locations verbally highlighted, then build a graph of the space using video frames.

  • In testing, robots responded to multimodal instructions — in the form of a sketched map, an audio request, and other visual cues like a box of toys.

  • DeepMind's "Mobility VLA" fuses the sheer context of Gemini's 1M tokens with a map-like representation of spaces into powerful navigation frameworks.

Microsoft and Apple Have Withdrawn from OpenAI's Board of Directors

The Veroneus: Microsoft has withdrawn from its observer role on OpenAI's Board, while Apple has reportedly abandoned plans to assume a similar position.

The Details:

  • Microsoft gave up its non-voting observer seat from the November 2023, citing confidence in the company’s new direction.

  • Apple, expected to join the board after June's partnership announcement, will no longer take an observer role.

  • These moves follow ongoing antitrust investigations by U.S. and EU authorities into big tech and AI startup partnerships.

The Importance: Recent changes to the Board of Directors of OpenAI signal regulatory pressure due to antitrust concerns and a straining relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI, not believing the fine words from either company.

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Samsung has Just Introduced its Newest AI-Powered Foldable Smartphones

The Veroneus: At a Samsung event just concluded, Galaxy Unpacked, apart from the highly anticipated Galaxy Ring and refresh of a new line of watches, Samsung has just announced a slew of new AI-infused foldable smartphones.

The Details:

  • The Galaxy Z Fold6 and Flip6 gain new Galaxy AI capabilities, such as Interpreter and Live Translate, Note Assist, Composer, Sketch-to-Image, and many more.

  • AI-powered health monitoring with the Galaxy Watch7 and new Galaxy Ring offers up to FDA-approved detection of sleep apnea and even tracks diabetes.

  • A new "Energy Score" from Samsung rounds out all-round user fitness into one metric, using its Galaxy AI to analyze sleep, exercises, and other metrics.

The Importance: Samsung is bringing it with some fresh AI integrations to level up its new lines of phones and wearables, making them pretty cool.

Anthropic Announced a New Upgrade for Claude

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