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xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler
In recent weeks, three of the leading American artificial intelligence firms have announced partnerships with the US government, promising the use of their services to federal workers for a paltry sum. Elon Musk's xAI was supposed to be part of the initiative, but a planned partnership fell apart after the Grok chatbot spouted antisemitic conspiracy theories on X in early July, WIRED has learned. The chaos surrounding the Grok deal reflects the Trump administration's current focus on speed and its disregard, at times, of preexisting norms surrounding government tech procurement. On May 15, fresh off a whirlwind trip to the Middle East with President Donald Trump, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent an email to the leadership team at the General Services Administration (GSA), the federal agency that manages government technology. He was inspired by Trump's desire to "go big," he said.
LIFT: Language-Interfaced Fine-Tuning for Non-Language Machine Learning Tasks
However, for non -language downstream tasks, a common practice is to employ task-specific designs for input, output layers, and loss functions. For instance, it is possible to fine-tune an LM into an MNIST classifier by replacing the word embedding layer with an image patch embedding layer, the word token output layer with a 10-way output layer, and the word prediction loss with a 10-way classification loss, respectively.
Trump admin unveils groundbreaking tool 'supercharging' gov't efficiency to 'win the race' for AI dominance
NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang commends President Donald Trump's A.I. agenda and outlines what the countrys job future will look like on Special Report. FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is announcing the launch of a new tool it says will be instrumental in enabling agencies across the federal government to efficiently implement artificial intelligence at scale and take a major step forward rolling out the president's "AI Action Plan." Trump's U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) said on Thursday it has launched USAi, a tool the agency describes as a "secure generative artificial intelligence evaluation suite that enables federal agencies to experiment with and adopt artificial intelligence at scale--faster, safer, and at no cost to them." The agency says that the platform, available starting Thursday at 10 a.m. through USAi.ov, gives government users access to "powerful" tools like chat-based AI, code generation and document summarization with the goal of "supercharging employee productivity." "USAi isn't just another tool, it's infrastructure for America's AI future," GSA Chief Information Officer David Shive explained.
The race to link our brains with AI: Inside Elon Musk and Sam Altman's battle to be first to connect mind and machine
The tussles between billionaires have seen vast fortunes splashed on everything from rocket ships to social media empires. But now, two titans of big tech are taking their fight to a frontier: The race to link our brains with AI. Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk and Sam Altman of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, are vying to be the first to connect mind and machine. The former allies are now both backing rival companies trying to build brain-computer-interface (BCI) chips and put them inside humans. These devices allow people to directly control computers with their thoughts by reading the electrical signals produced in the brain. As outspoken champions of the technology, both Mr Musk and Mr Altman claim that BCIs will one day allow humanity to merge with artificial intelligence.