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The conventional wisdom, well captured recently by Ethan Mollick, is that LLMs are advancing exponentially. A few days ago, in a popular blog post, Mollick claimed that “the current best estimates of
It’s like the past few years' discussions on bias in training data and issues with shortcut learning in AI models just didn’t happen at all? Like, our industry didn’t take in any of it, did it? I thou
Megan, a mother from Tumwater, visited a Washington's Lottery AI-powered website on March 30. She was shocked to see one of the AI photos was softcore porn. (Photo provided to The Jason Rantz Show on
For the past year or so I’ve been spending most of my time researching the use of language and diffusion models in software businesses. One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed
Nicholas LoVecchio told me he knew something was wrong as soon as he received the peer-review responses to his paper about “taboo” language titled “Using translation to chart the early spread of GAY t
Photo: Timofeev Vladimir (Shutterstock) Microsoft is drawing up plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer, allegedly named “Stargate,” to power OpenAI’s next generation of artificial intelligence sy
Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images) Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president o
Every conversation about artificial intelligence nowadays seemingly ends with a warning to balance innovation with responsible governance. One might even say with great computing power comes great res
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images All US federal agencies will now be required to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use, as the government wants to ensure that AI
The Biden administration is calling on federal agencies to step up their use of artificial intelligence tools, but in a way that keeps the risk of misuse in check. The Office of Management and Budget
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It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are dragging on. The industry has shed more jobs in a shorter period than any time since the dot-com bust ove
In October last year, Francesca Mani came home from school in the suburbs of New Jersey with devastating news for her mother, Dorota. Earlier in the day the 14-year-old had been called into the vice-p
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"Trust is the currency of the AI era." Turn the Page AI isn't nearly as popular with the global populace as its boosters would have you believe. As Axios reports based on a new poll of 32,000 global r
Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering—finding a clever way to phrase your query to a large language model (LLM) or AI art or v
I am troubled by how many people are upset by AI. I mean, they’re really upset. Having just written a thing on framing, I think AI is another example where people are doing most of the damage themselv
It’s only been a year and AI is already becoming as boring to people as reading. Meaning—the masses are starting to see it as just another tech phase, while the highly ambitious are working to integra
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I think I’m probably going to lose quite a lot of money in the next year or two. It’s partly AI’s fault, but not mostly. Nonetheless I’m mostly going to write about AI, because it intersects the techn
Artificial Intelligence Microsoft releases PyRIT red teaming tool to help identify risks in generative AI through automation. February 23, 2024 Microsoft on Thursday announced the release of PyRIT, an
Some people (although very far from all people) are worried that AI will wipe out all value in the universe. Some people, including some of those same people, need practical advice. A Word On Thinking
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AI models, the subject of ongoing safety concerns about harmful and biased output, pose a risk beyond content emission. When wedded with tools that enable automated interaction with other systems, the
Klaus Vedfelt | Digitalvision | Getty Images Cue the George Orwell reference. Depending on where you work, there's a significant chance that artificial intelligence is analyzing your messages on Slack
Photo: PeachY Photograph (Shutterstock) ChatGPT started throwing out “unexpected responses” on Tuesday night according to OpenAI’s status page. Users posted screenshots of their ChatGPT conversations
4 min read·3 days ago Previous major advancements in Computer Science and its applications always felt empowering to me, AI feels different. Dall-E 3, “A drawing of a software engineer overwhelmed by
Within our Unsupervised Learning Community we had an interesting discussion last week. One of our members said—and I’m paraphrasing here: I know I’m supposed to be happy about all this AI innovation,
I think of us in some kind of twilight world as transformative AI looks more likely: things are about to change, and I don’t know if it’s about to get a lot darker or a lot brighter. Increasingly this
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR OpenAI is said to be developing AI agents that automate even more complex tasks, though their launch timeline remains unknown. One AI agent is said to take ov
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Among all the fear, uncertainty and doubt in the wake of generative AI, GitHub has found something that’s surprising: AI is making its developers happier. Software developers have too much to do, said