Eugene comes from an electronic engineering background and loves all things tech. When he takes a break from consuming AI news, you'll find him at the snooker table.
LinkedIn ↗Stanford University released its AI Index Report 2024 which noted that AI’s rapid advancement makes benchmark comparisons with humans increasingly less relevant. The annual report provides…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Baylor University Department of Economics researchers experimented with ChatGPT to test its ability to predict future events. Their clever prompting approach bypassed OpenAI’s guardrails and delivered…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Google researchers developed a technique called Infini-attention, which allows LLMs to handle infinitely long text without increasing compute and memory requirements. The Transformer architecture of an…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Generative AI startup Uncharted Labs launched Udio, a text-to-music generator that generates high-quality music from text prompts. A few weeks ago, Gen-AI enthusiasts were gushing over…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Welcome to this week’s roundup of triple-distilled artisanal AI news. This week, companies that scrape your data for free complained that others were stealing it. Big…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
The race for more powerful and efficient AI hardware surged ahead this week with Intel and Google announcing new chips to help them become less reliant…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Elon Musk was interviewed by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) CEO Nicolai Tangen and said he expects we’ll have an AI smarter than humans by the…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Researchers published a study comparing the accuracy and quality of summaries that LLMs produce. Claude 3 Opus performed particularly well but humans still have the edge.…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Anthropic released a paper outlining a many-shot jailbreaking method to which long-context LLMs are particularly vulnerable. The size of an LLM’s context window determines the maximum…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Welcome to this week’s roundup of handwritten AI news. This week OpenAI said its AI voice cloner was too good to release. An NYC-approved chatbot gave…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
