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December 16 news, Wuhan University Artificial Intelligence Institute was inaugurated today, by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University President Professor Zhang Pingwen as the first president. In terms of discipline construction and scientific research, Wuhan University School of Artificial Intelligence, relying on the support of Wuhan University's advantageous disciplines and many key research institutions, focuses on four major aspects, such as mathematical and physical foundations and data science, machine learning and intelligent science, intelligent natural science, intelligent social science, etc., and seeks to "AI + science", "AI + engineering", "AI + medicine", "AI + science", "AI + engineering" and "AI + medicine". We aim to achieve breakthroughs in the frontier areas of "AI + Science", "AI + Engineering", "AI + Medicine" and "AI + Humanities and Social Sciences". Faculty ...

MIIT has decided to set up a Technical Committee for Artificial Intelligence Standardization, numbered MIIT / TC1, which is mainly responsible for the formulation and revision of industry standards in the fields of AI assessment and testing, operation and maintenance, data sets, basic hardware, software platforms, big models, application maturity, application development management, and AI risks, etc. The Committee is composed of 41 members, and its secretariat is undertaken by the China Academy of Information and Communication. The first AI Standardization Technical Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology consists of 41 members, and the secretariat is undertaken by the China Academy of Information and Communication Research. Name Position of the Standardization Committee Work Unit Position/Title Zheng Zhiming Chairman Member Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellow Yu Xiaohui Standing...

1AI was informed by "Net Credit China" that the National Network Security Standardization Technical Committee (NNSSTC) held its second "Standard Week" activity in 2024 from December 8-11 in Haikou City, Hainan Province. Wang Jingtao, deputy director of the State Net Information Office, pointed out that the Committee should do a good job in network security standardization. First, we should support the construction of national network security defense system with standards, as soon as possible to promote the critical information infrastructure boundary determination method, security protection capability index system, network security products, alarm information format, asset information format and other standards issued and implemented to accelerate the formation of systematic defense capabilities. Secondly...

Microsoft will hold a "wave 2" Copilot event at 8 a.m. Pacific Time on September 16 (23:00 Beijing Time on September 16), hosted by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Vice President of AI at Work Jared Spataro, which will focus on "the next phase of Copilot innovation." It is understood that the event will be held on LinkedIn and focus on the business aspects of Microsoft's Copilot product.

The Internet Society of China announced on the 29th that the 2024 (first) China Digital Human Conference will be held at the Exhibition and Trading Center of Beijing Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone from September 23 to 24. The theme of this conference is "Digital Human Application and Future", and it will conduct a systematic study on the strategy, technology, application, security, talent and other issues related to the development of digital humans. The series of high-quality content organized by the conference includes the opening ceremony, multiple special forums, two industry events, and multiple industry ecological activities. It brings together leaders of relevant government departments, academicians and experts, representatives of leading digital human industry companies at home and abroad, and relevant...

Baidu announced today that it will jointly launch the "2024 Baidu Search Wenxin Intelligent Agent Innovation Competition" with NVIDIA, with 2 major tracks and 5 competition questions. Attached are the specific tracks: The task of the technical track contestants is to develop an LLM-based agent, given a large set of tools, to intelligently orchestrate and schedule these tools to answer complex questions in the open domain. The contestants of the intelligent agent application track need to create a life and entertainment intelligent agent based on the Wenxin intelligent agent platform around people's daily life needs, and provide users with new and innovative gameplay or leisure services. Intelligent agents should…

According to a new study backed by the U.S. Department of Energy, power demand for U.S. data centers is expected to nearly triple over the next three years and could account for 12% of the nation's electricity consumption, a phenomenon caused by the transition of industries to artificial intelligence, Reuters reported on December 21st. The report was written by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. According to the projections, data centers could use between 74 and 132 gigawatts of electricity annually by 2028, accounting for between 6.7% and 12% of the total electricity consumption in the U.S. The range of this figure depends in part on the AI chip...

In a December 19 LinkedIn update, Andrew Ng announced that his DeepLearning.AI has launched a free short course, Reasoning with o1, to help users master the power of the o1 model. "Unlike previous language models that generated output directly, o1 thinks before it responds and generates many inference tokens before returning a more thoughtful and accurate response," said Ng. The course focuses on teaching users how to optimize the o1 model's...

Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Italy's data protection agency Garante announced Friday that it has fined OpenAI 15 million euros (note: currently about 114 million yuan) after concluding an investigation into the use of personal data by a generative AI application and finding that OpenAI did not follow data privacy regulations when training ChatGPT. 1AI cited the announcement as saying that OpenAI did not have a sufficient Italian legal basis to process users' personal data during the training of ChatGPT, violating the principle of transparency and the principle of privacy for the use of...