Tech & Society
OpenAI Expands Platform Play: OpenAI releases the GPT store, a curated chatbot marketplace.
The GPT Store is open for business, providing curated, searchable access to millions of chatbots tailored for specific purposes.
Generative AI
Tech & Society
AI Busts Out at CES: CES 2024 showcased AI's reach beyond browsers and smartphones.
The 2024 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showcased products that take advantage of increasingly powerful, increasingly accessible AI capabilities. Many debuts at the massive CES show showed that large language models (LLMs) are moving beyond browsers and smartphones.
Machine Learning Research
Text or Images, Input or Output: GILL, an innovative approach to multimodal model training
GPT-4V introduced a large multimodal model that generates text from images and, with help from DALL-E 3, generates images from text. However, OpenAI hasn’t fully explained how it built the system. A separate group of researchers described their own method.
Large Language Models (LLMs)
GPT-4 Wouldn’t Lie to Me . . . Would It?: Researchers showed how GPT-4 can deceive users without being prompted to do so explicitly
It’s well known that large language models can make assertions that are blatantly false. But can they concoct outright lies? In a proof-of-concept demonstration, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, and Marius Hobbhahn at Apollo Research...
Tech & Society
Deep Learning Rocks: How 2023’s soundtrack became AI-generated
Fans of AI-driven music pressed play, while a major recording company reached for the stop button. AI grabbed listeners by the ears when it helped produce a new single by The Beatles, mimicked the voices of beloved stars, and generated music from text prompts.
Year in Review
Generative AI Everywhere: How Large Language Models, chatbots, and other generative AI took off in 2023
This year, AI became virtually synonymous with generative AI. Launched in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT ushered in a banner year for AI-driven generation of text, images, and an ever widening range of data types.
Tech & Society
Google’s Multimodal Challenger: All you need to know about Gemini, Google's new multimodal model
Google unveiled Gemini, its bid to catch up to, and perhaps surpass, OpenAI’s GPT-4. Google demonstrated the Gemini family of models that accept any combination of text (including code), images, video, and audio and output text and images. The demonstrations and metrics were impressive...
Tech & Society
Amazon Joins Chatbot Fray: The pros and cons of Q, Amazon’s new enterprise chatbot
Amazon launched a chatbot for large companies even as internal tests indicated potential problems. Amazon introduced Q, an AI-powered assistant that enables employees to query documents and corporate systems.
Tech & Society
Testing for Large Language Models: Meet Giskard, an automated quality manager for LLMs.
An open source tool automatically tests language and tabular-data models for social biases and other common issues. Giskard is a software framework that evaluates models using a suite of heuristics and tests based on GPT-4.
Hardware
Industrial Strength Language Model: Siemens and Microsoft launch GPT-powered Copilot for manufacturing machinery.
ChatGPT is pitching in on the assembly line. Siemens and Microsoft launched a joint pilot program of a GPT-powered model for controlling manufacturing machinery. German automotive parts manufacturer Schaeffler is testing the system in its factories, as is Siemens itself.
Tech & Society
The Politics of Generative AI: AI-generated imagery flooded Argentina's presidential race.
Argentina’s recent presidential race was a battleground of AI-generated imagery. Candidates Javier Milei and Sergio Massa flooded social media with generated images of themselves and each other, The New York Times reported. On Sunday, Milei won the election’s final round.
Tech & Society
Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV
The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended as actors and studios reached an accord on the use of generative AI in making movies.