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| 2024 | Sutskever announced his departure from OpenAI to focus on a new project that was very personally meaningful to him. |
| 2024 | Hinton urged the British government to implement a universal basic income in response to the inequality caused by advancements in AI, warning that wealth generated from AI would disproportionately benefit the rich unless government intervention occurred. |
| 2024 | Hinton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside John Hopfield for his significant contributions to the field. |
| 2024 | Hinton received the VinFuture Prize grand award, along with several prominent peers, for groundbreaking contributions to neural networks and deep learning algorithms. |
| 2024 | Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Statistical Society |
| 2024 | Knighted for services to AI. |
| 2024 | Jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John M. Jumper for AI research contributions in protein structure prediction. |
| 2024 | Demis Hassabis is the main subject of the documentary 'The Thinking Game', which premiered at the Tribeca Festival. |
| 2024 | Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry, highlighting his groundbreaking contributions to scientific research. |
| 2024 | The 4th International Workshop on Learning to Quantify (LQ 2024) was organized, continuing the ongoing research dialogue in quantification. |
| 2024 | The 2nd Data Challenge on Learning to Quantify (LeQua 2024) was initiated, providing another opportunity for researchers to evaluate and develop quantification techniques. |
| December 2024 | During Christmas, Hinton expressed increased pessimism regarding the future of AI, asserting a '10 to 20 percent chance' that AI could lead to human extinction within the next thirty years. |
| September 2024 | Safe Superintelligence Inc. announced that it had raised $1 billion from various venture capital firms. |
| September 2024 | Robyn Speer, author of wordfreq, announces she will stop updating the open source database due to high data acquisition costs, excessive focus on generative AI, and concerns about AI pollution of data. |
| September 2024 | Robyn Speer, author of wordfreq, announces she will stop updating the open source database due to high data acquisition costs, excessive focus on generative AI, and concerns about AI pollution of data. |
| September 23 2024 | In collaboration with Meta and UNESCO, Hugging Face launched an online language translator supporting free text translation across 200 languages, including many low-resource languages, to support the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. |
| August 2024 | In August 2024, Geoffrey Hinton co-authored a letter with Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, and Lawrence Lessig in support of SB 1047, a California AI safety bill aimed at requiring companies that train models costing more than US$100 million to conduct risk assessments before their deployment. |
| June 2024 | Sutskever founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy. |
| June 2024 | Hugging Face, along with Meta and Scaleway, announced the launch of a new AI accelerator program for European startups. |
| June 2024 | Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, demonstrating improved performance in areas such as coding, multistep workflows, and image analysis compared to the larger Claude 3 Opus model. |
| June 2024 | Reuters Institute published their Digital News Report, revealing survey results showing significant public discomfort with AI-generated news, particularly in politics, crime, and local news topics. |
| June 2024 | Reuters Institute published their Digital News Report, revealing survey results showing significant public discomfort with AI-generated news, particularly in politics, crime, and local news topics. |
| June 2024 | Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, demonstrating improved performance in areas such as coding, multistep workflows, and image analysis compared to the larger Claude 3 Opus model. |
| May 2024 | Futurism discovered that AdVon Commerce used generative AI to produce tens of thousands of articles for over 150 publishers. |
| May 2024 | Futurism discovered that AdVon Commerce used generative AI to produce tens of thousands of articles for over 150 publishers. |
| April 2024 | A research paper proposed using blockchain technology to enhance transparency, verifiability, and decentralization in AI development and usage. |
| April 2024 | A research paper proposed using blockchain technology to enhance transparency, verifiability, and decentralization in AI development and usage. |
| April 11 2024 | Appointed to Amazon's board of directors. |
| March 2024 | Anthropic released the Claude 3 family of large language models, including Claude 3 Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, with notable performance improvements. |
| March 2024 | Anthropic released the Claude 3 family of large language models, including Claude 3 Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, with notable performance improvements. |
| February 2024 | Google unified Bard and Duet AI under the Gemini brand, launching a mobile app on Android and integrating the service into the Google app on iOS. |
| February 2024 | Google launched a program to pay small publishers to write three articles per day using a beta generative AI model, without requiring consent from source websites. |
| February 2024 | Google launched a program to pay small publishers to write three articles per day using a beta generative AI model, without requiring consent from source websites. |
| February 2024 | Google unified Bard and Duet AI under the Gemini brand, launching a mobile app on Android and integrating the service into the Google app on iOS. |
| 2023 | Sutskever announced that he would co-lead OpenAI's new 'Superalignment' project, aiming to solve the alignment of superintelligences within four years. |
| 2023 | After a security audit, safetensors became the default format for tensor storage, marking a significant improvement in model data handling and security. |
| 2023 | Geoffrey Hinton expressed concerns about the potential for an AI takeover, stating that it is 'not inconceivable' that AI could 'wipe out humanity'. |
| 2023 | Hinton was named an ACM Fellow, recognizing his contributions to the field of computer science. |
| 2023 | Hinton indicated that AI systems with intelligent agency could be useful for military or economic purposes. |
| 2023 | Geoffrey Hinton voiced concerns that AI technologies could disrupt the job market significantly, indicating a shift from only eliminating 'drudge work' to potentially affecting a wider range of employment. |
| 2023 | He warned that generally intelligent AI systems might create unaligned sub-goals that could be detrimental to human interests. |
| 2023 | Multiple copyright-related lawsuits emerged involving generative AI: Getty Images sued Stability AI over using their images to train Stable Diffusion, while the Authors Guild and The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI for using their works to train ChatGPT. |
| 2023 | A research study revealed vulnerabilities in generative AI systems, demonstrating that they can be exploited through jailbreaks, reverse psychology, and prompt injection attacks to assist in creating harmful content like social engineering and phishing attacks. |
| 2023 | University College London estimates that over 60,000 scholarly articles (more than 1% of all publications) were likely written with Large Language Model (LLM) assistance. |
| 2023 | Meta released ImageBind, an AI model capable of combining multiple modalities including text, images, video, thermal data, 3D data, audio, and motion. |
| 2023 | Expanded access to AI education, with an estimated 8 million individuals worldwide taking his courses via platforms like DeepLearning.AI and Coursera. |
| 2023 | Named in Time AI 100 Most Influential People |
| 2023 | Hassabis signs a statement declaring that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, highlighting his ongoing commitment to AI safety research. |
| 2023 | Won the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing AlphaFold, a revolutionary AI system that accurately predicts protein structures. |
| 2023 | The 3rd International Workshop on Learning to Quantify (LQ 2023) was conducted, further advancing discussions in the field of quantification. |
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