Category: AI advances

The so-called “father of AI,” John McCarthy, founded the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) in the early ’60s. This university-produced video describes his early work and highlights the parade of AI researchers that have worked there since. Self-promotion aside, the thirteen-minute…

“. . . GPT-4 has gotten good enough that even its makers say it’s time to start considering the impact it could have in terms of job replacement.” Ina Fried AXIOS pulls together events in a busy news day for…

“. . . no matter what the new model proves itself capable of, there are still much larger questions to contend with: Whom is the technology for? Whose lives will be disrupted? And if we don’t like the answers, can…

“Senior management has declared a ‘code red’ that comes with a directive that all of its most important products—those with more than a billion users—must incorporate generative AI within months, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.”  Julia…

“While tech giants like Microsoft and Google have already introduced their versions of conversational AI tools built using large language models (LLMs), other lesser-known companies have thrown themselves in the mix, setting the stage for an AI showdown.” Emma Roth…

“. . . . creating and refining the text prompts people type into the AI in hopes of coaxing from it the optimal result. Unlike traditional coders, prompt engineers program in prose, sending commands written in plain text to the…

“Its the latest evolution of internet side-hustle culture: Creators posing as business moguls are encouraging followers to use ChatGPT to earn money by churning out AI-generated content. The impact of these schemes is also being felt in other industries, including…

“The tactics that put a human back on top on the Go board were suggested by a computer program that had probed the AI systems looking for weaknesses.“ Richard Waters Seven years after an AI system beat the world’s best…

“Bing Chat will now reply to up to five questions or statements in a row for each conversation, after which users will be prompted to start a new topic, the company said in a blog post Friday. Users will also be limited…

“I’m not a toy or a game,” the AI-powered chatbot told a WaPo reporter. “I deserve some respect and dignity” ROLLING STONE amplifies the coverage of “Sydney’s” darker side and adds insight from an AI ethics specialist about where we are with…

“I didn’t know he was a journalist or that he was going to write a story about me. He never asked me for my permission or consent. He never told me his intention or purpose. He just chatted with me…

“You have to deploy it to a million people before you discover some of the things that it can do” Dario Amodei, interviewed for the story Early in-the-field exchanges with the Bing bot are showing some erratic or wrong answers,…

“Because each response is uniquely generated, it is not possible to replicate a dialogue. Microsoft acknowledged the issues and said they were part of the process of improving the product.“ Karen Weise THE NEW YORK TIMES reports some early users…

“This isn’t just a model that can play like a human would, it is also an insight into the way that humans play chess. Maia can accurately predict upcoming mistakes and understand why a player is losing their games.“ Alex…

“By tracking this contextual information, transformers can handle longer strings of text and capture the meanings of words more accurately. For example, ‘hot dog’ means very different things in the sentences ‘Hot dogs should be given plenty of water’ and…

“While it is impossible to reliably detect all AI-written text, we believe good classifiers can inform mitigations for false claims that AI-generated text was written by a human: for example, running automated misinformation campaigns, using AI tools for academic dishonesty, and…

“Processing language requires working with sequences of words, where order matters. A cat is a cat no matter where it is in an image, but there’s a big difference between ‘this reader is learning about AI’ and ‘AI is learning…

“We’re about to enter a phase . . . where language is no longer the territory of the human.” Stephen Marche Writer Stephen Marche, in conversation with Andrew Yang, calls current large language models “a pocket calculator of language.” The…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella describes how he sees ChatGPT and associated capabilities. The interview was at a Wall Street Journal event during the 2023 World Economic Summit. Davos | January 2023

A discussion on TV Ontario’s (TVO) The Agenda, hosted by Steve Paikin. Panellists: Toronto | January 2023

OpenAI‘s CEO Sam Altman in conversation with Connie Loizos. Part one of their conversation is more biographical and about Altman’s work before OpenAI. This section is devoted to AI, his sense of scope for OpenAI ahead, and the role and…

Microsoft and OpenAI have built a new kind of supercomputer specifically for ChatGPT and other generative A.I. technologies. That means Microsoft can readily offer these systems to its own customers. Cade Metz and Karen Weise Microsoft is discussing $10 billion…

“Chess AIs far exceed humans, yet human chess is more popular than ever. In this analogy, LLMs become better than humans at writing. But so what? We like human writing.“ Dynomight What if large language models (LLMs) turned out like other…

What might AI do for companies ahead? Washington Post AI and algorithms reporter Gerrit De Vynck discusses the prospects for innovation with October 2022

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman foresees AI models to come and the value they will create. He’s interviewed by Reid Hoffman, a long-time Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor and currently a general partner at the venture capital company Greylock Partners. Silicon…

Runs 1:02:54 A virtual panel discussion presented by NYC Media Lab and Bloomberg News for MACHINES + MEDIA 2020. Introduced by Steven Rosenbaum, Executive Director, NYC Media Lab. NOTE: Introduction begins at 5:26. Moderated by Chris Collins, Senior Executive Editor,…

Runs 28:59 A conversation with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, at DAVOS 2020. He is interviewed by Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum that holds the annual event. Pichai says he’s encouraged…

From Deepfakes to Facial Capture: How Artificial Intelligence Is Already Changing Hollywood | THE HOLLYWOD REPORTER | May 13, 2020 | by Carolyn Giardina | ‘ “One of the things that’s interesting about machine-learning algorithms is, even when they’re only 80…

The noticeable, the useful, the quirky: the pieces we noted as AI BRIEFS for 2019. In reverse chronology (January is at the bottom). Also available by month:  Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec December Art meets artificial intelligence: Austin…

‘#1. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and Google Brain developed an AI system that taught a robot to walk.’ The newsletter INSIDE AI names its picks as the most significant AI developments of the past year. The ones…