Tag Archives: large language models

OpenAI responds to Elon Musk lawsuit by clarifying its “open“ nature

Benj Edwards / Getty Images reader comments 55 On Tuesday, OpenAI published a blog post titled “OpenAI and Elon Musk” in response to a lawsuit Musk filed last week. The ChatGPT maker shared several archived emails from Musk that suggest he once supported a pivot away from open source practices in the company’s quest to… Read More »

Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested

reader comments 86 On Monday, Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert caused a small stir in the AI community when he tweeted about a scenario related to Claude 3 Opus, the largest version of a new large language model launched on Monday. Albert shared a story from internal testing of Opus where the model seemingly demonstrated… Read More »

AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating

reader comments 67 Wikipedia has downgraded tech website CNET’s reliability rating following extensive discussions among its editors regarding the impact of AI-generated content on the site’s trustworthiness, as noted in a detailed report from Futurism. The decision reflects concerns over the reliability of articles found on the tech news outlet after it began publishing AI-generated… Read More »

Microsoft partners with OpenAI-rival Mistral for AI models, drawing EU scrutiny

reader comments 20 On Monday, Microsoft announced plans to offer AI models from Mistral through its Azure cloud computing platform, which came in conjunction with a 15 million euro non-equity investment in the French firm, which is often seen as a European rival to OpenAI. Since then, the investment deal has faced scrutiny from European… Read More »

ChatGPT goes temporarily “insane” with unexpected outputs, spooking users

reader comments 122 On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected outputs from OpenAI’s AI assistant, flooding the r/ChatGPT Reddit sub with reports of the AI assistant “having a stroke,” “going insane,” “rambling,” and “losing it.” OpenAI has acknowledged the problem and is working on a fix, but the experience serves as a high-profile example of… Read More »

Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO

reader comments 77 On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Reddit has signed a contract allowing an unnamed AI company to train its models on the site’s content, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes as the social media platform nears the introduction of its initial public offering (IPO), which could happen as soon… Read More »

Nvidia’s “Chat With RTX” is a ChatGPT-style app that runs on your own GPU

reader comments 65 On Tuesday, Nvidia released Chat With RTX, a free personalized AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT that can run locally on a PC with an Nvidia RTX graphics card. It uses Mistral or Llama open-weights LLMs and can search through local files and answer questions about them. Chat With RTX works on Windows… Read More »

OpenAI experiments with giving ChatGPT a long-term conversation memory

Enlarge / When ChatGPT looks things up, a pair of green pixelated hands look through paper records, much like this. Just kidding. Benj Edwards / Getty Images reader comments 17 On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is experimenting with adding a form of long-term memory to ChatGPT that will allow it to remember details between… Read More »

Nvidia CEO calls for “Sovereign AI” as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value

Nvidia / Benj Edwards reader comments 78 On Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that every country should control its own AI infrastructure so it can protect its culture, Reuters reports. He called this concept “Sovereign AI,” which an Nvidia blog post defined as each country owning “the production of their own intelligence.” Huang made… Read More »

The Super Bowl’s best and wackiest AI commercials

Enlarge / A still image from BodyArmor’s 2024 “Field of Fake” Super Bowl commercial. reader comments 48 Heavily hyped tech products have a history of appearing in Super Bowl commercials during football’s biggest game—including the Apple Macintosh in 1984, dot-com companies in 2000, and cryptocurrency firms in 2022. In 2024, the hot tech in town… Read More »