On Wednesday, luminaries in the field of AI gathered at Serpentine North, a former gunpowder store turned exhibition space, for the inaugural TIME100 Impact Dinner London. Following a similar event held in San Francisco last month, the dinner convened influential leaders, experts, and honorees of TIME's 2023 and 2024 100 Influential People in AI lists--all of whom are playing a role in shaping the future of the technology. Following a discussion between TIME's CEO Jessica Sibley and executives from the event's sponsors--Rosanne Kincaid-Smith, group chief operating officer at Northern Data Group, and Jaap Zuiderveld, Nvidia's VP of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa--and after the main course had been served, attention turned to a panel discussion. The panel featured TIME 100 AI honorees Jade Leung, CTO at the U.K. AI Safety Institute, an institution established last year to evaluate the capabilities of cutting-edge AI models; Victor Riparbelli, CEO and co-founder of the UK-based AI video communications company Synthesia; and Abeba Birhane, a cognitive scientist and adjunct assistant professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, whose research focuses on auditing AI models to uncover empirical harms. Moderated by TIME senior editor Ayesha Javed, the discussion focused on the current state of AI and its associated challenges, the question of who bears responsibility for AI's impacts, and the potential of AI-generated videos to transform how we communicate.

Later this year, millions of Apple devices will begin running Apple Intelligence, Cupertino's take on generative AI that, among other things, lets people create images from text prompts. But some members of the creative community are unhappy about what they say is the company's lack of transparency around the raw information powering the AI model that makes this possible. "I wish Apple would have explained to the public in a more transparent way how they collected their training data," Jon Lam, a video games artist and a creators' rights activist based in Vancouver, told Engadget. "I think their announcement could not have come at a worse time." Creatives have historically been some of the most loyal customers of Apple, a company whose founder famously positioned it at the "intersection of technology and liberal arts."

To better understand fire emissions under worst-case climate scenarios, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory first taught a machine to predict the past. That artificial intelligence is helping scientists better understand wildfire emissions in the Northwest. Then, they trained the model to learn patterns. When the AI model could predict what happened in previous fire seasons, the scientists knew they could trust it to predict the future, said lab fellow Ruby Leung. "Advances in machine learning now allow us to really focus on a large number of factors and also they're complex, non-linear relationship," Leung said.

Oracle is bringing Nvidia's AI Enterprise software suite alongside thousands of its latest GPUs to its cloud infrastructure, which could fuel the chipmaker's plans to make billions from subscription services. The partnership, which builds on earlier deployments, sets up Nvidia with the kind of infrastructure it requires to expand on a long-term goal to become a software powerhouse. It also gives Oracle's cloud service the plug-and-play hardware capacity and software framework to easily deploy AI software. Oracle and Nvidia have common expertise in areas that include healthcare, manufacturing, communications and financial services, and there's a lot of opportunity to collaborate there, said Leo Leung, vice president at Oracle, during a press briefing. The companies are "looking at the full stack so not just the GPUs and infrastructure but getting into the software layer, getting into the service layer," Leung said. Nvidia is known as a graphics chip company, but is betting its future on generating more revenue from software and services.

Akemi Leung knew her grandfather had been incarcerated at Heart Mountain in Wyoming during World War II. But he never spoke much about it. Only when she read and watched a video of his testimony at a congressional commission hearing did she learn more about what he suffered as one of more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry forced to leave their homes and live in concentration camps. "I just knew him to be a quiet person who liked to observe more than talk," Leung said. "Seeing the testimony helped illustrate how he was a leader."

InfoTalk Corporation Limited, a leader in conversational artificial intelligence technologies, today announced receiving the Gold Award from the Hong Kong ICT Awards for its flagship product, InfoTalk-Speaker 10.0. This Version 10 leapfrogs text-to-speech technology to a new frontier, enabling computers, robots, and any automated systems to speak in natural human voices like those in sci-fi movies. It opens up a whole new horizon for uncharted waters of digital applications. InfoTalk-Speaker is available in multiple languages. It speaks with the tonal precision of human native speakers of Cantonese and Putonghua.

For AI to become clinically feasible in women's imaging, it must excel in the areas of performance, time, workflow and cost, according to an opinion piece published online Feb. 19 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. The adoption of any new technology must achieve certain metrics to become viable and quantify its impact, wrote authors Ray C. Mayo, MD, and Jessica W. T. Leung, MD, each with the department of diagnostic radiology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "As patients, physicians, hospitals, and insurance companies look for value, AI must earn a role in medical imaging," Mayo and Leung wrote. Below are four areas of women's imaging AI must impact in order to become clinically feasible: Improving the performance of mammography is the most important condition AI must achieve to be useful in women's imaging, according to the authors. Without this there is no interpretative purpose for the technology.

Finance, education, medicine, programming, the arts -- artificial intelligence is set to disrupt nearly every sector of our society. Governments and policy experts have started to realize that, in order to prepare for this future, in order to minimize the risks and ensure that AI benefits humanity, we need to start planning for the arrival of advanced AI systems today. Although we are still in the early moments of this movement, the landscape looks promising. Several nations and independent firms have already started to strategize and develop polices for the governance of AI. Last year, the UAE appointed the world's first Minister of Artificial Intelligence, and Germany took smaller, but similar, steps in 2017, when the Ethics Commission at the German Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure developed the world's first set of regulatory guidelines for automated and connected driving.

More than one million Hongkongers are at risk of losing their jobs to artificial intelligence over the next two decades, according to a new study by a local think tank. The One Country Two Systems Research Institute on Tuesday unveiled research which estimates about 28 per cent of the city's 3.7 million jobs are vulnerable to automation. These workers, which include secretaries, accountants and auditors, face a 70 per cent chance of being substituted for machines before 2038, the pro-Beijing research unit said. But Hong Kong employees face a lower risk of encroachment from AI compared to their counterparts in other advanced economies such as the United States, Britain and Japan. The brighter forecast for the city was due to its economic structure, which included a smaller manufacturing sector, research officer Kristine Yang said.

The platform, announced Tuesday, is intended primarily for organizations that need high-performance computing capacity for artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning projects. Nvidia has been on a recent campaign to make its chips a standard for machine learning development both 0n-premises and in the cloud, and Oracle is the latest endorsement. Bare-metal services essentially give customers a dedicated physical server with pay-per-use pricing. Unlike colocation arrangements, the customer doesn't buy the hardware but rents it. Several other vendors offer bare-metal options, including Amazon Web Services Inc., IBM Corp. and Rackspace Inc., but Oracle claimed its service is easier to provision and cheaper.