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 / Snoop Dogg talking about AI at the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference on May 3, 2023. Milken Institute reader comments 62 with On Wednesday, celebrated multi-platinum recording artist Snoop Dogg took part in a panel at the Milken Institute’s 2023 Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. After fielding a question by Variety editor… Read More »
reader comments 99 with One of the biggest advances in web security over the last decade or so is the proliferation of secure, encrypted HTTPS connections. Once the purview of shopping and banking sites, HTTPS connections have become the norm rather than the exception, keeping more of your credentials and data safe from being intercepted… Read More »
Enlarge / A still image from “Synthetic Summer,” an AI-generated beer commercial. Privateisland.tv reader comments 82 with While many fear a future where AI-generated media becomes indistinguishable from traditional media, destroying society and/or civilization in the process, we aren’t quite there yet. Exhibit A comes in the form of a surreal AI-generated beer commercial that… Read More »
reader comments 26 with Microsoft is planning to offer a privacy-focused version of the ChatGPT chatbot to banks, health care providers, and other large organizations concerned about data leaks and regulatory compliance, according to a report from The Information. The product, which could be announced “later this quarter,” would run ChatGPT on dedicated servers, separate… Read More »
Enlarge / In a still from a DeepMind demo video, a researcher pushes a small humanoid robot to the ground. reader comments 42 with On Wednesday, researchers from DeepMind released a paper ostensibly about using deep reinforcement learning to train miniature humanoid robots in complex movement skills and strategic understanding, resulting in efficient performance in… Read More »
Enlarge / Macs running macOS Ventura. reader comments 33 with When it announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura at its Worldwide Developers Conference last summer, one of the features Apple introduced was something called “Rapid Security Response.” The feature is meant to enable quicker and more frequent security patches for Apple’s newest operating… Read More »