Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an electronic brain with an eyeball. Ars Technica reader comments 88 with Share this story On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ tests, and understand natural language instructions. The… Read More »
reader comments 68 with Share this story Last week, Microsoft researchers announced an experimental framework to control robots and drones using the language abilities of ChatGPT, a popular AI language model created by OpenAI. Using natural language commands, ChatGPT can write special code that controls robot movements. A human then views the results and adjusts… Read More »
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 »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 136 with Share this story Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing Chat service, still in private testing, has been in the headlines for its wild and erratic outputs. But that era has apparently come to an end. At some point during the past two days, Microsoft has significantly curtailed Bing’s… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 240 with Share this story Over the past few days, early testers of the new Bing AI-powered chat assistant have discovered ways to push the bot to its limits with adversarial prompts, often resulting in Bing Chat appearing frustrated, sad, and questioning its existence. It has argued with… Read More »
Enlarge / With the right suggestions, researchers can “trick” a language model to spill its secrets. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 109 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed a “New Bing” search engine and conversational bot powered by ChatGPT-like technology from OpenAI. On Wednesday, a Stanford University student… Read More »
reader comments 98 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference from Paris that did not deliver the decisive move against ChatGPT and the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that many pundits expected. Instead, Google ran through a collection of previously announced technologies in a low-key presentation that included losing… Read More »
Enlarge / Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of Microsoft’s modern life and devices group, speaks during an event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday. Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 33 with 0 posters participating Share this story Fresh off news of an extended partnership last month, Microsoft has announced a new… Read More »
reader comments 15 with 0 posters participating Share this story Big Tech companies are aggressively pursuing investments and alliances with artificial intelligence startups through their cloud computing arms, raising regulatory questions over their role as both suppliers and competitors in the battle to develop “generative AI.” Google’s recent $300 million bet on San Francisco-based Anthropic… Read More »
Enlarge / An illustration of a chatbot exploding onto the scene, being very threatening. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 83 with 0 posters participating Share this story ChatGPT has Google spooked. On Friday, The New York Times reported that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin held several emergency meetings with company executives… Read More »