While Bing Chat’s unhinged nature was caused in part by how Microsoft defined the “personality” of Sydney in the system prompt (and unintended side-effects of its architecture with regard to conversation length), Ars Technica’s saga with the chatbot began when someone discovered how to reveal Sydney’s instructions via prompt injection, which Ars Technica then published.… Read More »
Video scraping is just one of many new tricks possible when the latest large language models (LLMs), such as Google’s Gemini and GPT-4o, are actually “multimodal” models, allowing audio, video, image, and text input. These models translate any multimedia input into tokens (chunks of data), which they use to make predictions about which tokens should… Read More »
reader comments 56 OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI has been sending out warning emails and threats of bans to any user who tries to probe… Read More »
reader comments 164 Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has a vision for the future of work: sending your AI-powered digital twin to attend meetings on your behalf. In an interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel published Monday, Yuan shared his plans for Zoom to become an “AI-first company,” using AI to automate tasks and reduce the… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 31 On Monday, OpenAI employee William Fedus confirmed on X that a mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot known as “gpt-chatbot” that had been undergoing testing on LMSYS’s Chatbot Arena and frustrating experts was, in fact, OpenAI’s newly announced GPT-4o AI model. He also revealed that GPT-4o had topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard,… Read More »
reader comments 25 On Sunday, word began to spread on social media about a new mystery chatbot named “gpt2-chatbot” that appeared in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena. Some people speculate that it may be a secret test version of OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 large language model (LLM). The paid version of ChatGPT is currently powered… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 20 On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and less expensive to operate than traditional large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo. Its small size is ideal for running locally, which could bring an AI model of similar capability to… Read More »
Enlarge / An image of a boy amazed by flying letters. reader comments 17 Some weeks in AI news are eerily quiet, but during others, getting a grip on the week’s events feels like trying to hold back the tide. This week has seen three notable large language model (LLM) releases: Google Gemini Pro 1.5… Read More »
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 »
Enlarge / Joaquin Phoenix talking with AI in Her (2013). Warner Bros. reader comments 88 with In 2013, Spike Jonze’s Her imagined a world where humans form deep emotional connections with AI, challenging perceptions of love and loneliness. Ten years later, thanks to ChatGPT’s recently added voice features, people are playing out a small slice… Read More »