The Pope just weighed in on AI

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In calling for regulation of the digital revolution, and foregrounding human dignity, the pontiff has contributed to a crucial ethical debate When the present pope adopted his regnal name, he explained the choice by reference to a 19th-century predecessor who used the papacy to address the great social question of his time. In the 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum (Of New Things), Pope Leo XIII analysed the social forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution, and outlined principles for a just settlement between the forces of capital and labour. Leo XIV hopes to do something similar in relation to the accelerating digital upheaval of our own age. As anxiety grows over big tech’s impact on how we work and live, such ambition should be applauded. The early fruits of the pope’s work were presented in the Vatican on Monday after the publication of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity). In 42,000 or so words the document itemises the daunting challenges posed by dev

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Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching May 17- 23. Weekend AI News Briefs Pope Approves Creation of Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence Pope Leo XIV approved creation of an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence to coordinate the Vatican’s approach to AI policy, ethics and human […]

Pope Leo’s comments on AI were made in a speech at Rome’s La Sapienza University.

Thinking Machines Lab has introduced a research preview of TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 12B active parameters, built around a multi-stream, time-aligned micro-turn architecture that processes 200ms chunks of audio, video, and text simultaneously — eliminating the need for external voice-activity detection harnesses. Unlike standard turn-based models that freeze perception during generation, the system runs two components in parallel: a real-time interaction model that maintains continuous full-duplex exchange with the user, and an asynchronous background model that handles sustained reasoning and tool use while sharing the full conversation context throughout. The post Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Interaction Models: A Native Multimodal Architecture for Real-Time Human-AI Collaboration appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called "interaction models." The idea behind interaction models, according to Thinking Machines, is that they will let people "collaborate with AI the way we naturally collaborate with each other - they continuously take in audio, video, and text, and think, respond, and act in real time." As explained by Thinking Machines: Today's models experience reality in a single thread. Until the user finishes typing or speaking, the model waits with no perception of what the user is doing or how the user is doing it. Until th … Read the full story at The Verge.

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