TODAY'S AI NEWS: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis just said AI...
Rowan Cheung@rowancheung
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Apr 22, 2025
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TODAY'S AI NEWS: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis just said AI can end all disease!
Plus, more news from Anthropic, Windsurf, ElevenLabs, Play AI, and TextArena.
Here's everything you need to know:
Plus, more news from Anthropic, Windsurf, ElevenLabs, Play AI, and TextArena.
Here's everything you need to know:
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Demis Hassabis appeared on 60 Minutes, sharing new insights into AI:
—AGI in 5-10 years, with conscious AI likely in the future
—AI fast-tracking drug discovery, potentially eradicating all disease within the next decade
—AI ensuring radical abundance
—AGI in 5-10 years, with conscious AI likely in the future
—AI fast-tracking drug discovery, potentially eradicating all disease within the next decade
—AI ensuring radical abundance
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Anthropic just mapped Claude's morality!
The co analyzed 300K+ chats and found that the AI exhibits 5 key values, including practical and protective
This will improve our understanding of AI as it becomes more and more crucial to real-world decisions
The co analyzed 300K+ chats and found that the AI exhibits 5 key values, including practical and protective
This will improve our understanding of AI as it becomes more and more crucial to real-world decisions
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
We built the first taxonomy of values expressed by AIs in real-world conversations.
Broadly, Claude expresses the values we intended, like critical thinking, responsibility, and efficiency.
Broadly, Claude expresses the values we intended, like critical thinking, responsibility, and efficiency.
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Windsurf just simplified its pricing, removing flow action credits and charging 1 prompt credit for each message to Cascade
The company is also consolidating its individual paid plans into a single Pro plan, priced at $15/mo for 500 prompt credits
The company is also consolidating its individual paid plans into a single Pro plan, priced at $15/mo for 500 prompt credits
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ElevenLabs dropped Agent-to-Agent Transfers
The capability allows the transfer of conversations (and their context) between specialized agents
This can come in handy in cases like support ops where multiple specialized agents are active!
The capability allows the transfer of conversations (and their context) between specialized agents
This can come in handy in cases like support ops where multiple specialized agents are active!
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California-based Play AI released an AI voice changer
The tool allows users to change their voice into ANYONE else's with just 10 seconds of audio
Accessible on mobile, it even preserves the same voice and tone of the original recording!
The tool allows users to change their voice into ANYONE else's with just 10 seconds of audio
Accessible on mobile, it even preserves the same voice and tone of the original recording!
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TextArena went live on Hugging Face
It's an open-source collection of competitive text-based games for LLMs, spanning 57+ unique environments
Tests for different agentic behaviors—negotiation, theory of mind, deception, via competitive play
It's an open-source collection of competitive text-based games for LLMs, spanning 57+ unique environments
Tests for different agentic behaviors—negotiation, theory of mind, deception, via competitive play
León@LeonGuertler
TextArena is live on arXiv! We present a benchmark of 57+ competitive text-based games to evaluate and train LLMs on agentic behavior — including negotiation, deception, theory of mind and many more. Real-time TrueSkill. Multiplayer support. Human-vs-models. Model-vs-model. Perfect environment for Multi-Agent, multi-turn reasoning and Planning! [1/N]
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TODAY'S AI NEWS: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis just said AI can end all disease!
Plus, more news from Anthropic, Windsurf, ElevenLabs, Play AI, and TextArena.
Here's everything you need to know:
Plus, more news from Anthropic, Windsurf, ElevenLabs, Play AI, and TextArena.
Here's everything you need to know:
