Former Meta executive Jason Taylor is joining Microsoft’s AI supercomputing team. He will take on the role of corporate vice president and deputy CTO to help “build the next set of systems that will push the frontier of AI forward.” Taylor worked at Meta from 2009 to 2022, where he most recently served as the…
Jack of All Trades (JAT) is a multi-purpose transformer agent capable of mastering a wide variety of sequential decision-making tasks, as well as showing rudimentary capabilities in natural language processing and computer vision. Key highlights: – Release of expert reinforcement learning (RL) agents across various environments, including Atari, BabyAI, Meta-World, and MuJoCo. – Introduction of…
The BBC plans to invest £6 million to transform its educational offering, BBC Bitesize, using artificial intelligence. The goal is to make learning more personalized and interactive for students from primary school onwards, building on the BBC’s trusted educational brand. Key features include: – Personalized testing and learning gap identification – Suggestions for follow-on content…
Wells Fargo’s Head of Strategy, Digital, Innovation and Enterprise Payments, Ather Williams III, discusses the company’s digital transformation efforts: – The mobile app now has 30 million users, with AI assistant Fargo providing personalized guidance in English and Spanish. Fargo integrates with the app and other channels. – Branches are being digitized, allowing customers to…
Austria’s success in artificial intelligence (AI) research and development stems from its robust academic ecosystem, comprising young thinkers, budding entrepreneurs, and established professors. The article highlights the following key points: – Graz University of Technology has become a global leader in AI and extended reality (XR) research, aided by renowned professors like Dieter Schmalstieg. –…
