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Large Language Models: Don’t Believe the Hype

We’ve reached the Skynet moment for AI, it would seem. GPT-4, cast in the role of Terminator, has not only achieved consciousness, but it’s coming for your job, too. Everything will be different now, and there’s no Read more…

Open Letter Urges Pause on AI Research

The Future of Life Institute has issued an open letter calling for a six-month pause on some forms of AI research. Citing “profound risks to society and humanity,” the group is asking AI labs to pause research on AI Read more…

Vector Databases Emerge to Fill Critical Role in AI

Vector databases arrived on the scene a few years ago to help power a new breed of search engines that are based on neural networks as opposed to keywords. Companies like Home Depot dramatically improved the search exper Read more…

Databricks Bucks the Herd with Dolly, a Slim New LLM You Can Train Yourself

Databrick is getting into the large language model (LLM) game with Dolly, a slim new language model that customers can train themselves on their own data residing in Databricks’ lakehouse. Despite the sheepish name, Do Read more…

Google Officially Releases Bard, Its ChatGPT Competitor

Google today announced that it’s officially releasing Bard, the new generative language model that it unveiled several weeks ago. While it’s still a research product, Google is eager to get Bard into the hands of tes Read more…

Nvidia Unveils GPUs for Generative Inference Workloads like ChatGPT

Today at its GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia took the wraps off three new GPUs designed to accelerate inference workloads for generative AI applications, including generating text, images, and videos. It also launched Read more…

New PyTorch 2.0 Compiler Promises Big Speedup for AI Developers

Machine learning and AI developers are eager to get their hands on PyTorch 2.0, which was unveiled in late 2022 and is due to become available this month. Among the features greeting eager ML developers is a compiler as Read more…

Prompt Engineer: The Next Hot Job in AI

Technology professionals who want to catch the hottest wave in AI at the moment may consider becoming prompt engineers, which appears to be one of the most in-demand professions for 2023. And developers who want to get t Read more…

Like ChatGPT? You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet

ChatGPT is taking the world by storm, thanks to its uncanny capability to generate useful text. But as the large language models (LLMs) at the heart of services like ChatGPT get bigger, so too do the odds of seeing even Read more…

Microsoft Seeks $10B Investment in OpenAI: Report

Microsoft, which is already invested in OpenAI to the tune of $1 billion and enjoys an exclusive partnership with it to train its AI models, reportedly is looking to invest $10 billion in the company following the breako Read more…

Stanford Researchers Develop HELM Benchmark for Language Models

Foundation models like GPT-3, BLOOM, and BERT have garnered much attention as of late, for good reason. These versatile models, often trained with a vast amount of unstructured data, have immense capabilities that can be Read more…

BLOOM Large Language Model Breaks Down the Walled Garden

For the past couple of years, everyone from AI experts to the general public has been entranced by the often astonishing output of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and DALL•E 2. These models, using narrative inp Read more…

SalesForce Taps LLM for Programming Boost with CodeGen

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 are capturing the imaginations of data scientists around the world, thanks to their advanced capability to understand and generate text. Now researchers at Salesforce have leverage Read more…

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