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Apple and OpenAI’s big moment, Introducing: ORBIT-Surgical, No more superalignment?
Two giants might join forces.
Sthefania
May 20, 2024
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Hello, Starters!
We've been discussing a topic for a while now: AI is certainly finding its way into our devices. As we get closer to Apple's major event, it seems this will become a reality for iPhone users!
Here’s what you’ll find today:
Apple’s WWDC might have OpenAI as a guest
ORBIT-Surgical: A way to train surgical robots
What went wrong with OpenAI’s superalignment team?
Microsoft’s announcements ahead of Build 2024
ElevenLabs introduces AudioNative
And more.
Everything points to Apple and OpenAI finally reaching an agreement, and we’ll be hearing news about their collaboration at the upcoming WWDC. Mark Gurman has reported that although Apple doesn't have a chatbot yet, they plan to integrate OpenAI's technology in iOS 18, alongside their proprietary AI models that will tweak Siri, automatically summarise notifications, and provide voice memo transcriptions.
This is a significant step in Apple's AI journey; however, sources claim that even executives have admitted the company is still lagging in the race. It remains to be seen how this collaboration will change that perception.
A joint effort between the University of Toronto, UC Berkeley, ETH Zurich, Georgia Tech, and Nvidia has brought ORBIT-Surgical to life, an open-source framework that simulates environments aimed at training surgical robots.
Through Nvidia's Isaac Sim platform and Omniverse tools, ORBIT-Surgical provides 14 benchmark tasks covering basic surgical skills, as well as detailed models of surgical robots such as the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) and the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR). This project expects to accelerate research into robot-assisted surgery and explore how machine learning can contribute to it.
Following the departure of Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, OpenAI's superalignment team, which focused on preventing and controlling powerful AI systems, has been disbanded, and its work will be relocated to other research efforts within the company under the leadership of John Schulman.
The sudden change in circumstances is allegedly due to internal challenges and disagreements about how OpenAI is prioritising its objectives and how it would behave if AGI were reached. Although there are no further details on why the team was dissolved, one has to wonder how OpenAI will continue to address responsible AI development.
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📣Just a day before its annual Build conference, Microsoft is gearing up to announce new hardware and software at an event open to journalists and industry analysts. These announcements include updated versions of its Surface Pro tablet and Surface laptop, powered by Qualcomm chips specially designed for AI-driven applications.
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