Article Alert: A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models
Article Alert: A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models This article was co-authored by Raphaël Millière and Cameron Buckner. Abstract: Large language models like GPT-4 have achieved remarkable proficiency in a broad spectrum of language-based tasks, some of which are traditionally associated with hallmarks of human intelligence. This has prompted ongoing disagreements about the extent to […]
New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement This article was published in The Guardian on 28th December 2023. The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft over the use of its content to train generative artificial intelligence and large-language model systems, a move that could see the company receive billions of dollars in […]
Research Article: Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models
Research Article: Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models This article has recently been published in Nature and authored by Bernardino Romera-Paredes and colleagues. Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated tremendous capabilities in solving complex tasks, from quantitative reasoning to understanding natural language. However, LLMs sometimes suffer from confabulations (or hallucinations) which […]
Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone
Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone This article was authored by Melissa Heikkilä for MIT Technology Review. Each time you use AI to generate an image, write an email, or ask a chatbot a question, it comes at a cost to the planet. In fact, generating an […]
Sam Altman back at OpenAI: how Microsoft got its hands on ChatGPT
Sam Altman back at OpenAI: how Microsoft got its hands on ChatGPT This article was published on BFMTV in French. Following is the translated text. The American giant has demonstrated its omnipotence over its partner OpenAI, by reinstalling Sam Altman and his teams, against the initial advice of the board of directors. It only took […]
Google’s New Gmail Tool is Hallucinating Emails that don’t Exist
Google’s New Gmail Tool is Hallucinating Emails that don’t Exist This article is authored by Maggie Harrison for Futurism. Google’s new Bard extension will apparently summarize emails, plan your travels, and — oh, yeah — fabricate emails that you never actually sent. Last week, Google plugged its large language model-powered chatbot called Bard into a bevy of Google […]
Can LLMs Really Reason and Plan?
Can LLMs Really Reason and Plan? This is the title of the slides of Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati, Professor of AI at the Arizona State University, and the former President of AAAI. He gave this talk at the recent JP Morgan AI summit. Please find below the link to the slides and the audio of the […]
EU’s AI Act negotiations hit the brakes over foundation models
EU’s AI Act negotiations hit the brakes over foundation models Luca Bertuzzi writes for Euractive about a technical meeting on the EU’s AI regulation broke down on Friday (10 November) after large EU countries asked to retract the proposed approach for foundation models. Unless the deadlock is broken in the coming days, the whole legislation […]
Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model
Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model This TechCrunch article written by Rita Liao, reports on Kai-Fu Lee, the venture capitalist and computer scientist wants to create an OpenAI equivalent for China. Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller “AI Superpowers” and in China for his bets on artificial […]
AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert
AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert This article was published in The Guardian and authored by Dan Milmo. Focusing on doomsday scenarios in artificial intelligence is a distraction that plays down immediate risks such as the large-scale generation of misinformation, according to a senior industry figure attending this […]