Company
Date Published
April 26, 2024
Author
Harpreet Sahota
Word count
1942
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The US Air Force Test Pilot School and DARPA have successfully installed AI agents in the X-62A VISTA aircraft as part of the Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program, demonstrating that AI can be used safely in aerospace applications. Microsoft has launched Phi-3 SLMs, which are smaller language models that compete with or outperform GPT 3.5 across all benchmarks. Microsoft Research project VASA-1 generates realistic talking faces in real-time based on audio input. According to Gartner's survey of over 500 business leaders, only 24% are currently using or piloting generative AI tools, with the majority still exploring or evaluating the technology. Microsoft has also released COCONut, a modernized large-scale segmentation dataset that improves upon COCO in terms of annotation quality and consistency across segmentation tasks.