Tag Archives: GPT-4

Among AI dangers, deepfakes worry Microsoft president most

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “wall of fake images.” Stable Diffusion reader comments 27 with On Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that his biggest apprehension about AI revolves around the growing concern for deepfakes and synthetic media designed to deceive, Reuters reports. Smith made his remarks while revealing his “blueprint for public… Read More »

Anthropic’s Claude AI can now digest an entire book like The Great Gatsby in seconds

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot reading a book. Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion reader comments 15 with On Thursday, AI company Anthropic announced it has given its ChatGPT-like Claude AI language model the ability to analyze an entire book’s worth of material in under a minute. This new ability comes from expanding… Read More »

OpenAI peeks into the “black box” of neural networks with new research

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of robots looking inside an artificial brain. Stable Diffusion reader comments 26 with On Tuesday, OpenAI published a new research paper detailing a technique that uses its GPT-4 language model to write explanations for the behavior of neurons in its older GPT-2 model, albeit imperfectly. It’s a step forward for… Read More »

The AI race heats up: Google announces PaLM 2, its answer to GPT-4

reader comments 41 with On Wednesday, Google introduced PaLM 2, a family of foundational language models comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-4. At its Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, Google revealed that it already uses PaLM 2 to power 25 products, including its Bard conversational AI assistant. As a family of large language models (LLMs),… Read More »

Warning of AI’s danger, pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to speak freely

Enlarge / Geoffrey Hinton, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute, speaks during The International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) Toronto Global Forum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. Getty Images / Benj Edwards reader comments 6 with According to the New York Times, AI pioneer Dr. Geoffrey Hinton has resigned… Read More »

Nuke-launching AI would be illegal under proposed US law

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a nuclear mushroom cloud. Midjourney reader comments 128 with On Wednesday, US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Representatives Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), Don Beyer (D-Va.), and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) announced bipartisan legislation that seeks to prevent an artificial intelligence system from making nuclear launch decisions. The Block Nuclear Launch by… Read More »

Stability AI launches StableLM, an open source ChatGPT alternative

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “Stochastic Parrot” created by Stability AI. Benj Edwards / Stability AI / Stable Diffusion XL reader comments 65 with Share this story On Wednesday, Stability AI released a new family of open source AI language models called StableLM. Stability hopes to repeat the catalyzing effects of its Stable… Read More »

GPT-4 will hunt for trends in medical records thanks to Microsoft and Epic

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a pixel art hospital with empty windows. Benj Edwards / Midjourney reader comments 83 with Share this story On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced that they are bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI language model into health care for use in drafting message responses from health care workers to patients… Read More »

Generative AI comes to Amazon Web Services

Enlarge / An AI generated image of a “colorful data center.” Midjourney reader comments 15 with Share this story On Thursday, Amazon released a new suite of AI technologies, including foundational large language models (LLMs) called Titan and a cloud computing service called Bedrock, reports Reuters. The move comes as competitors Microsoft and Google integrate… Read More »

Developer creates “self-healing” programs that fix themselves thanks to AI

Enlarge / An AI-generated and human composited image of “Wolverine programming on a computer.” Benj Edwards / Midjourney reader comments 66 with Share this story Debugging a faulty program can be frustrating, so why not let AI do it for you? That’s what a developer that goes by “BioBootloader” did by creating Wolverine, a program… Read More »