Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot reading a book. Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion reader comments 15 with On Thursday, AI company Anthropic announced it has given its ChatGPT-like Claude AI language model the ability to analyze an entire book’s worth of material in under a minute. This new ability comes from expanding… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of robots looking inside an artificial brain. Stable Diffusion reader comments 26 with On Tuesday, OpenAI published a new research paper detailing a technique that uses its GPT-4 language model to write explanations for the behavior of neurons in its older GPT-2 model, albeit imperfectly. It’s a step forward for… Read More »
reader comments 41 with On Wednesday, Google introduced PaLM 2, a family of foundational language models comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-4. At its Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, Google revealed that it already uses PaLM 2 to power 25 products, including its Bard conversational AI assistant. As a family of large language models (LLMs),… Read More »
reader comments 47 with At Wednesday’s Google I/O conference, Google announced wide availability of its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, Bard, in over 180 countries with no waitlist. It also announced updates such as support for Japanese and Korean, visual responses to queries, integration with Google services, and add-ons that will extend Bard’s capabilities. Similar to how… Read More »
Enlarge / Anthropic’s Constitutional AI logo on a glowing orange background. Anthropic / Benj Edwards reader comments 4 with On Tuesday, AI startup Anthropic detailed the specific principles of its “Constitutional AI” training approach that provides its Claude chatbot with explicit “values.” It aims to address concerns about transparency, safety, and decision-making in AI systems… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of the White House in front of a cybernetic background. Midjourney reader comments 22 with On Thursday, the White House announced a surprising collaboration between top AI developers, including OpenAI, Google, Antrhopic, Hugging Face, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Stability AI, to participate in a public evaluation of their generative AI systems… Read More »
Enlarge / US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet the ‘Investing in America Cabinet’ to discuss the Investing in America agenda in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 5. reader comments 46 with On Thursday, President Joe Biden held a meeting at the White House with… Read More »
Enlarge / FTC Chair Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee nomination hearing on April 21, 2021, in Washington, DC. Graeme Jennings/Getty Images reader comments 16 with On Wednesday, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan pledged to use existing laws to regulate AI in a New York Times op-ed,… Read More »
OpenAI / Stable Diffusion reader comments 34 with Share this story On Tuesday, OpenAI announced new controls for ChatGPT users that allow them to turn off chat history, simultaneously opting out of providing that conversation history as data for training AI models. Also, users can now export chat history for local storage. The new controls,… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “Stochastic Parrot” created by Stability AI. Benj Edwards / Stability AI / Stable Diffusion XL reader comments 65 with Share this story On Wednesday, Stability AI released a new family of open source AI language models called StableLM. Stability hopes to repeat the catalyzing effects of its Stable… Read More »