Andrew Ng's editorial emphasizes the widespread public distrust of AI in Western countries, contrasting it with higher enthusiasm in China. He argues that AI hype and fear-mongering from within the AI community, including comparisons to nuclear weapons, have severely damaged trust, hindering adoption and progress. Ng calls for the community to prioritize building applications that genuinely benefit people, avoid hype, and actively counter misleading journalism to regain societal trust. The article also features several news updates: Meta's open 3D generation pipeline (SAM 3, SAM 3D, SAM 3D Body) offers a unified approach to creating 3D objects and human figures from various inputs, advancing the state-of-the-art. World Labs introduced Marble and Chisel for generating persistent, editable 3D virtual spaces, aiming to catalyze spatial AI development. Baidu debuted Ernie-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking (an open-weights vision-language model) and Ernie-5.0 (a large proprietary multimodal model), showcasing competitive performance against top models, though Ernie-5.0 faced initial tool-calling issues. Finally, the article briefly introduces Google DeepMind's RoboBallet, a graph neural network designed to automate the coordination of robotic arms, though the source content is truncated.
