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Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn

Well, well, well, it seems Amazon’s AI chatbot Q is causing quite a stir among its employees. According to leaked documents obtained by **Platformer**, Q is experiencing a bit of a meltdown, with severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data. I mean, who needs reality TV when you have an AI chatbot on the loose, right? […]

1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study

In a preprint research paper titled “Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?”, two researchers from UC San Diego decided to have a little fun by pitting OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI language model against human participants, GPT-3.5, and the ancient ELIZA computer program. The goal was to see which one could fool people into thinking it was […]

PhysicsX emerges from stealth with $32M for AI to power engineering simulations

London-based AI startup PhysicsX is coming out of stealth mode with a focus on building and operating physical systems in the enterprise world. The company has developed an AI platform that creates and runs simulations for engineers working in industries such as automotive, aerospace, and materials science manufacturing. PhysicsX has raised $32 million in a […]

Meta reveals Seamless, a suite of AI language translation models that preserve expression and improve streaming

In the world of language translation, where words can get lost in translation, there’s a new player on the scene. Meet Seamless, the language translation system that aims to preserve the essence of human communication. You see, it’s not just about getting the words right, but also about capturing the tone, pauses, and emphasis that […]

Perplexity AI releases PPLX Online LLMs

Perplexity AI has introduced two new online language models, `pplx-7b-online` and `pplx-70b-online`, which are designed to provide helpful, factual, and up-to-date responses. These models leverage knowledge from the internet to ensure the most recent information is incorporated into their answers. They can handle time-sensitive queries that offline models struggle with. Perplexity Labs provides access to […]

Google DeepMind AI reveals potential for thousands of new materials

Google DeepMind has utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the structure of over 2 million new materials, potentially improving real-world technologies such as batteries, solar panels, and computer chips. The AI firm stated that nearly 400,000 of these hypothetical material designs could soon be produced in laboratory conditions. The research, published in the science journal […]

Inflection releases its new model inflection 2 – outperforms Google’s PaLM-2

Inflection-2, the superstar of AI training, flexed its metaphorical muscles on 5,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. That’s a lot of computing power, enough to put it in the same training class as Google’s flagship PaLM 2 Large model. But wait, there’s more! Inflection-2 doesn’t just keep up, it outperforms PaLM 2 on the majority of standard […]

Amid Mainstream Boom, AI Skeptics Say the Tech is Overhyped

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have officially gone mainstream in 2023, according to a survey by Retool. But don’t get too carried away with the hype just yet, because most professionals still consider AI to be overhyped. It seems that while AI has become a household name, it hasn’t quite lived up to all the lofty […]

Osium AI uses artificial intelligence to speed up materials innovation

French startup Osium AI has raised $2.6 million in seed funding to tackle a unique use case for artificial intelligence: research and development in materials science. Co-founders Sarah Najmark and Luisa Bouneder noticed the manual and time-consuming nature of materials development, with a heavy reliance on trial and error. Osium AI aims to optimize this […]

Google Assistant with Bard: Tech giant will rebrand its assistant app, but it won’t support all features in classic app

Google is stepping up its AI game with the introduction of Bard, its new AI assistant chatbot. Bard is set to bring generative AI to YouTube and is packed with all sorts of fancy AI features. However, here’s the catch: Bard won’t support all the features currently available in the Classic Assistant. So, users might […]

Forget Siri. Turn your iPhone’s ‘Action Button’ into a ChatGPT voice assistant instead

Attention iPhone users! OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice feature is now available for free, giving you the perfect opportunity to ditch Siri and upgrade to a smarter voice assistant. No offense to Siri, but ChatGPT is like Siri on steroids. And who doesn’t want a vocal assistant that’s been hitting the gym?   To take advantage of […]

Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall

Researchers from ETH Zurich have created an autonomous excavator named HEAP that can build a six-meter-high and sixty-five-meter-long dry-stone wall. The excavator uses sensors to map the construction site and locate building blocks and stones, and then uses specially designed tools to scan, grab, and place the stones in the desired location. The project was […]

Cohere Launches Comprehensive Fine-Tuning Suite

Now, let’s dive into the exciting world of fine-tuning! Cohere, the AI powerhouse, is launching three new fine-tuning capabilities. It’s like giving your AI models their own personal trainers! Chat fine-tuning will elevate customer support and virtual assistant conversations, making them more natural, personalized, and context-sensitive. Rerank fine-tuning will transform search and recommendation systems, delivering […]

Baidu’s ChatGPT-Style Ernie Bot AI Begins to Earn as Sales Beat Estimates

Baidu, China’s top internet search leader, is seeing promising results from its ChatGPT-style Ernie bots. Despite a challenging economic situation, Baidu reported a 6% rise in revenue to 34.4 billion yuan ($4.8 billion) in the third quarter of 2023. The company estimates that its AI model, Ernie, will contribute hundreds of millions of yuan in […]

The GPT to rule them all: Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US government has just begun

Scientists at the Argonne National Lab in Illinois are training a massive generative AI system called ScienceGPT using data from the Aurora supercomputer. With a whopping one trillion parameters, ScienceGPT is set to be one of the largest Language Models out there. It’s like the Hulk of AI, ready to smash through scientific barriers and […]

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