Google co-founder Sergey Brin has called for the company to 'turbocharge' its efforts in the race to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), citing increased competition and the need for more efficient use of AI in coding and productivity.
"The other ingredient is a call for employees to double down on their work. This includes a recommendation of “being in the office at least every weekday” and that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity,” while warning that more might result in burnout. "
Google DeepMind introduced PaliGemma 2, a new family of Vision-Language Models with parameter sizes ranging from 3 billion to 28 billion, designed to address challenges in generalizing across different tasks and adapting to various input data types, including diverse image resolutions.
DeepMind's Gemma Scope provides researchers with tools to better understand how Gemma 2 language models work through a collection of sparse autoencoders. This helps in understanding the inner workings of these models and addressing concerns like hallucinations and potential manipulation.
