Tech & Society
Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained
A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model.
GPT-3
Machine Learning Research
Text-to-Image Editing Evolves: InstructPix2Pix for text-to-image editing, explained
Text-to-image generators like DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Adobe’s new Generative Fill feature can revise images in a targeted way — say, change the fruit in a bowl from oranges to bananas — if you enter a few words that describe the change plus an indication of the areas to be changed.
Science
Language Models in Lab Coats: The chatbot search engines for scientific research
Specialized chatbots are providing answers to scientific questions. A new breed of search engines including Consensus, Elicit, and Scite use large language models to enable scientific researchers to find and summarize significant publications, Nature reported.
Machine Learning Research
For Better Answers, Generate Reference Text: AI-generated reference text improves LLM output.
If you want a model to answer questions correctly, then enriching the input with reference text retrieved from the web is a reliable way to increase the accuracy of its output. But the web isn’t necessarily the best source of reference text.
Machine Learning Research
Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.
When you’re looking for answers from a large language model, some prompts are better than others. So how can you come up with the best one? A new model automates the process.
Business
Inferring Talent: NLP tools for technical recruiters
What do your GitHub projects reveal about your professional prospects? A new model aims to help recruiters find out. Prog.ai analyzes GitHub repositories to help employers find engineers skilled in particular areas, TechCrunch reported.
Business
Publishers Embrace Text Generation: GPT-fueled content at the New York Times, BuzzFeed, and more
Media outlets are forging ahead with generative AI despite the technology’s high-profile misfires. Publishers are using text generators to produce light reading within constrained formats such as holiday messages and quizzes.
Arts
Seinfeld's Twitch Moment: AI-generated sitcom Nothing, Forever booted from Twitch.
AI hobbyists created an homage to their favorite TV show . . . until it got knocked off the server. The creators of Nothing, Forever launched a fully automated, never-ending emulation of the popular TV show Seinfeld.
Business
Generating Investment: Generative AI Startups Raise Hundreds of Millions in Funding
The generative gold rush is on. Venture capitalists are betting hundreds of millions of dollars on startups that use AI to generate images, text, and more, Wired reported.
Business
Chipmaker Boosts AI as a Service: Nvidia Launches Cloud Service for NLP Models
Nvidia, known for chips designed to process AI systems, is providing access to large language models. Nvidia announced early access to NeMo LLM and BioNeMo, cloud-computing services that enable developers to generate text and biological sequences respectively.
Tech & Society
Large Language Models Unbound: BLOOM is the Largest Open Source NLP Model to Date
A worldwide collaboration produced the biggest open source language model to date. BLOOM is a family of language models built by the BigScience Research Workshop, a collective of over 1,000 researchers from 250 institutions around the globe.
Business
Winning The Google Game: 14 Companies Using GPT-3 to Top SEO
AI startups are helping writers tailor articles that appear near the top of Google’s search results. At least 14 companies sell access to software that uses GPT-3, the language model from OpenAI, to generate headlines, product descriptions, blog posts, and video scripts.