Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 49 with Share this story On Friday, Meta announced a new AI-powered large language model (LLM) called LLaMA-13B that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 model despite being “10x smaller.” Smaller-sized AI models could lead to running ChatGPT-style language assistants locally on devices such as PCs and smartphones.… Read More »
Enlarge / An artist’s impression of a robot hand using a desktop calculator. reader comments 63 with Share this story Language models like ChatGPT have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, but they still struggle with some basic tasks such as arithmetic and fact-checking. Last Thursday, researchers from Meta revealed Toolformer, an AI language… Read More »
Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story More than once this year, AI experts have… Read More »
Enlarge / A screenshot of an online game of Diplomacy, including a running chat dialog, provided by a Cicero researcher. reader comments 38 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, Meta AI announced the development of Cicero, which it clams is the first AI to achieve human-level performance in the strategic board game… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of robots making science. Ars Technica reader comments 97 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, Meta AI unveiled a demo of Galactica, a large language model designed to “store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge.” While intended to accelerate writing scientific literature, adversarial users running tests found… Read More »
Enlarge / An illustrated depiction of data in an audio wave. reader comments 60 with 54 posters participating Share this story Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says this technique… Read More »
Enlarge / Still image from an AI-generated video of a teddy bear painting a portrait. reader comments 79 with 58 posters participating Share this story Today, Meta announced Make-A-Video, an AI-powered video generator that can create novel video content from text or image prompts, similar to existing image synthesis tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.… Read More »