Tag Archives: large language models

Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products

Enlarge / Someone scans their face using Apple’s “most advanced machine learning techniques” with the Apple Vision Pro during a WWDC 2023 keynote demo reel. reader comments 42 with Amid notable new products like the Apple Silicon Mac Pro and the Apple Vision Pro revealed at Monday’s WWDC 2023 keynote event, Apple presenters never once… Read More »

Fearing leaks, Apple restricts its employees from using ChatGPT and AI tools

Enlarge / An AI-generated cartoon depiction of a chatbot being crossed out. Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion reader comments 18 with According to internal sources and company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has restricted its employees’ use of ChatGPT and AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot for fear of leaking confidential… Read More »

AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app

Enlarge / Screenshots of the ChatGPT iPhone app provided by OpenAI. reader comments 48 with On Thursday, OpenAI released a free ChatGPT app for iPhone in the US that includes voice input support through its Whisper AI speech recognition model; it can also synchronize chat history with the web version of the AI assistant. The… 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 »

Google’s answer to ChatGPT is now open to everyone in US, packing new features

reader comments 47 with At Wednesday’s Google I/O conference, Google announced wide availability of its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, Bard, in over 180 countries with no waitlist. It also announced updates such as support for Japanese and Korean, visual responses to queries, integration with Google services, and add-ons that will extend Bard’s capabilities. Similar to how… Read More »

AI gains “values” with Anthropic’s new Constitutional AI chatbot approach

Enlarge / Anthropic’s Constitutional AI logo on a glowing orange background. Anthropic / Benj Edwards reader comments 4 with On Tuesday, AI startup Anthropic detailed the specific principles of its “Constitutional AI” training approach that provides its Claude chatbot with explicit “values.” It aims to address concerns about transparency, safety, and decision-making in AI systems… Read More »

“We must regulate AI,” FTC Chair Khan says

Enlarge / FTC Chair Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee nomination hearing on April 21, 2021, in Washington, DC. Graeme Jennings/Getty Images reader comments 16 with On Wednesday, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan pledged to use existing laws to regulate AI in a New York Times op-ed,… Read More »

AI vs. Hollywood: Writers battle “plagiarism machines” in union talks

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “an office copy machine in front of a hollywood-style explosion.” Midjourney reader comments 179 with The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is seeking to restrict the use of generative AI in writing film and TV scripts as part of an ongoing strike, reports Reuters. The concerns come at a… Read More »