Business
Anthropic Cultivates Alternatives: Anthropic secures $2 billion investment from Google, weeks after Amazon deal
Weeks after it announced a huge partnership deal with Amazon, Anthropic doubled down on its earlier relationship with Alphabet.
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Tech & Society
Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI: ChatGPT and API outages linked to DDoS attack by Anonymous Sudan
ChatGPT suffered a cyberattack apparently tied to the Kremlin. A ChatGPT outage on November 8 most likely was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, OpenAI revealed.
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.
Machine Learning Research
The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.
Large language models may help psychiatrists resolve unanswered questions about mental illness. Researchers from University College London, Beijing Normal University, and Lisbon’s Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown used a large language model to...
Machine Learning Research
Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.
Text-to-image generators often miss details in text prompts, and sometimes they misunderstand parts of a prompt entirely. Synthetic captions can help them follow prompts more closely.
Machine Learning Research
What We Know — and Don’t Know — About Foundation Models: A new Stanford index to assess the transparency of leading AI models
A new index ranks popular AI models in terms of information their developers provide about their training, architecture, and usage. Few score well.
Tech & Society
White House Moves to Regulate AI: All about the U.S. executive order on AI use and development
U.S. President Biden announced directives that control AI based on his legal power to promote national defense and respond to national emergencies. The White House issued an executive order that requires AI companies and institutions...
Tech & Society
AI Turns Deadly: The dangerous outputs of Large Language Models
Large language models occasionally generate information that’s false. What if they produce output that’s downright dangerous? Text generators don’t know true from false or right from wrong. Ask an innocent question about food or health, and you might get an innocent — but fatal — answer.
Machine Learning Research
Better Reasoning from ChatGPT: Iterative bootstrapping, a new method to improve chain-of-thought prompting
You can get a large language model to solve math problems more accurately if your prompts include a chain of thought: an example that solves a similar problem through a series of intermediate reasoning steps. A new approach to...
Tech & Society
Cost Containment for Generative AI: Microsoft's quest to reduce the size and cost of language models
Microsoft is looking to control the expense of its reliance on OpenAI’s models. Microsoft seeks to build leaner language models that perform nearly as well as ChatGPT but cost less to run.
Tech & Society
Facebook’s Generative Facelift: All about the AI upgrades of Meta's Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram
Meta is rolling out AI-powered upgrades to its social platforms. Meta announced a chat interface, image generator, and celebrity tie-ins for Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. The new capabilities take advantage of LLaMa 2 and an unnamed image generator, presumably CM3leon.
Business
Amazon and Anthropic Form Alliance: A multibillion dollar deal between Amazon and Anthropic changes the race for AI in the cloud.
Amazon cut a multi billion-dollar deal with AI startup Anthropic, giving it a powerful ally in the generative arms race. Amazon committed to investing as much as $4 billion in Anthropic. In return, Amazon Web Services (AWS) became the primary provider of Anthropic’s Claude and other models.