Tag Archives: machine learning

Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement

In May, OpenAI abandoned its plan to fully convert to a for-profit company after pressure from regulators and critics. The company instead shifted to a modified approach where the nonprofit board would retain control while converting its for-profit subsidiary into a public benefit corporation (PBC). What changed in the agreement The revised deal extends Microsoft’s… Read More: Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement »

Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.

“It’s not gonna be one Bear Stearns moment,” Zitron explained. “It’s gonna be a succession of events until the markets freak out.” The crux of the problem, according to Zitron, is Nvidia. The chip maker’s stock represents 7 to 8 percent of the S&P 500’s value, and the broader market has become dependent on Nvidia’s… Read More: Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop?… »

Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 matches May’s frontier model at fraction of cost

And speaking of cost, Haiku 4.5 is included for subscribers of the Claude web and app plans. Through the API (for developers), the small model is priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. That compares to Sonnet 4.5 at $3 per million input and $15 per million output tokens,… Read More: Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 matches May’s frontier model at fraction… »

ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says

On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company will allow verified adult users to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT starting in December. The change represents a shift in how OpenAI approaches content restrictions, which the company had loosened in February but then dramatically tightened after an August lawsuit from parents of a teen who… Read More: ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says »

Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop

For the OS, the Spark is an ARM-based system that runs Nvidia’s DGX OS, an Ubuntu Linux-based operating system built specifically for GPU processing. It comes with Nvidia’s AI software stack preinstalled, including CUDA libraries and the company’s NIM microservices. Prices for the DGX Spark start at US $3,999. That may seem like a lot,… Read More: Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on… »

OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views

The timing of OpenAI’s paper may not be coincidental. In July, the Trump administration signed an executive order barring “woke” AI from federal contracts, demanding that government-procured AI systems demonstrate “ideological neutrality” and “truth seeking.” With the federal government as tech’s biggest buyer, AI companies now face pressure to prove their models are politically “neutral.”… Read More: OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views »

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Fine-tuning experiments with 100,000 clean samples versus 1,000 clean samples showed similar attack success rates when the number of malicious examples stayed constant. For GPT-3.5-turbo, between 50 and 90 malicious samples achieved over 80 percent attack success across dataset sizes spanning two orders of magnitude. Limitations While it may seem alarming at first that LLMs… Read More: AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents »

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

Share valuations based on past earnings have also reached their highest levels since the dotcom bubble 25 years ago, though the BoE noted they appear less extreme when based on investors’ expectations for future profits. “This, when combined with increasing concentration within market indices, leaves equity markets particularly exposed should expectations around the impact of… Read More: Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom… »

AMD wins massive AI chip deal from OpenAI with stock sweetener

As part of the arrangement, AMD will allow OpenAI to purchase up to 160 million AMD shares at 1 cent each throughout the chips deal. OpenAI diversifies its chip supply With demand for AI compute growing rapidly, companies like OpenAI have been looking for secondary supply lines and sources of additional computing capacity, and the… Read More: AMD wins massive AI chip deal from OpenAI with stock… »

Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? A live chat with Ed Zitron.

As generative AI has taken off since ChatGPT’s debut, inspiring hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and infrastructure developments, the top question on many people’s minds has been: Is generative AI a bubble, and if so, when will it pop? To help us potentially answer that question, I’ll be hosting a live conversation with… Read More: Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? A… »