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“A really big deal”—Dolly is a free, open source, ChatGPT-style AI model

Databricks reader comments 54 with Share this story On Wednesday, Databricks released Dolly 2.0, reportedly the first open source, instruction-following large language model (LLM) for commercial use that’s been fine-tuned on a human-generated data set. It could serve as a compelling starting point for homebrew ChatGPT competitors. Databricks is an American enterprise software company founded… Read More »

Meta introduces AI model that can isolate and mask objects within images

Enlarge / An example of SAM selecting the outline of a corgi in a photo. reader comments 29 with Share this story On Wednesday, Meta announced an AI model called the Segment Anything Model (SAM) that can identify individual objects in images and videos, even those not encountered during training, reports Reuters. According to a… Read More »

AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti astounds with terrible beauty

Enlarge / Stills from an AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti that has been heating up the Internet. reader comments 82 with Share this story Amid this past week’s controversies in AI over regulation, fears of world-ending doom, and job disruption, the clouds have briefly parted. For a brief and shining moment, we can… Read More »

You can now run a GPT-3 level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi

Ars Technica reader comments 65 with Share this story Things are moving at lightning speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called “llama.cpp” that can run Meta’s new GPT-3-class AI large language model, LLaMA, locally on a Mac laptop. Soon thereafter, people worked out how to run… Read More »

Meta unveils a new large language model that can run on a single GPU

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 »

Meta develops an AI language bot that can use external software tools

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 »

Meta sues “scraping-for-hire” service that sells user data to law enforcement

Getty Images reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive amounts of personal data from users of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social networking sites. “Defendant created… Read More »

Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3

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 »

Meta announces Make-A-Video, which generates video from text

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 »