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“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time

reader comments 45 On Tuesday, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT) for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers to gauge the relative capabilities of AI language models. “The king is dead,” tweeted software developer Nick Dobos in a post… Read More: “The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena… »

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79

Enlarge / A photo of Vernor Vinge in 2006. reader comments 73 On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson’s disease at age 79 on March 20, 2024, in La Jolla, California. The announcement came in a Facebook tribute where… Read More: Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at… »

GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a “materially better” update to ChatGPT

reader comments 30 When OpenAI launched its GPT-4 AI model a year ago, it created a wave of immense hype and existential panic from its ability to imitate human communication and composition. Since then, the biggest question in AI has remained the same: When is GPT-5 coming out? During interviews and media appearances around the… Read More: GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a “materially better” update… »

Nvidia unveils Blackwell B200, the “world’s most powerful chip” designed for AI

Enlarge / The GB200 “superchip” covered with a fanciful blue explosion. Nvidia / Benj Edwards reader comments 89 On Monday, Nvidia unveiled the Blackwell B200 tensor core chip—the company’s most powerful single-chip GPU, with 208 billion transistors—which Nvidia claims can reduce AI inference operating costs (such as running ChatGPT) and energy consumption by up to… Read More: Nvidia unveils Blackwell B200, the “world’s most powerful chip” designed… »

Apple may hire Google to power new iPhone AI features using Gemini—report

Benj Edwards reader comments 72 On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks to license Google’s Gemini model to power AI features like Siri in a future iPhone software update coming later in 2024, according to people familiar with the situation. Apple has also reportedly conducted similar talks with ChatGPT maker OpenAI. The potential… Read More: Apple may hire Google to power new iPhone AI features… »

Elon Musk’s xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI

Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. reader comments 61 On Sunday, Elon Musk’s AI firm xAI released the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a large language model designed to compete with the models that power OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The open-weights release through GitHub and BitTorrent… Read More: Elon Musk’s xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI »

Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet

Getty Images reader comments 20 It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. Now, a software developer named Ishan Anand has managed to cram a precursor to ChatGPT called GPT-2—originally released in 2019 after some trepidation from OpenAI—into a working Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It’s freely… Read More: Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an… »

OpenAI CEO Altman wasn’t fired because of scary new tech, just internal politics

Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 6, 2023, in San Francisco. reader comments 76 On Friday afternoon Pacific Time, OpenAI announced the appointment of three new members to the company’s board of directors and released the results of an independent review of the events surrounding CEO Sam… Read More: OpenAI CEO Altman wasn’t fired because of scary new tech,… »

Some teachers are now using ChatGPT to grade papers

reader comments 96 In a notable shift toward sanctioned use of AI in schools, some educators in grades 3–12 are now using a ChatGPT-powered grading tool called Writable, reports Axios. The tool, acquired last summer by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is designed to streamline the grading process, potentially offering time-saving benefits for teachers. But is it… Read More: Some teachers are now using ChatGPT to grade papers »

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: OpenAI responds to Elon Musk lawsuit by clarifying its “open“… »