Meta’s Nougat makes scientific texts machine-readable
Meta has developed a new AI model called Nougat that can reliably turn scientific text into machine-readable text. If you’ve ever tried to read a scientific…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
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OpenAI partners with Scale to fine-tune GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI has partnered with Scale to provide customization of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo model which was recently made available for fine-tuning. Scale helps companies create custom AI…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Meta releases Code Llama, its AI tool for coding
Meta announced the release of Code Llama, its new AI tool for coding. Code Llama is a fine-tuned version of Meta’s Llama 2 LLM, which has…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
DAI#1 – Can you prove you’re human? A right-wing AI can.
Your choice of AI news resource is impeccable! Welcome to our weekly AI news roundup. This week in AI we saw the ongoing soap opera drama…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
OpenAI says GPT-3.5 Turbo available for custom fine-tuning
OpenAI has announced that developers can now fine-tune its GPT-3.5 Turbo model using custom data. Fine-tuning is the process of taking the base version of a…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Meta releases first-of-its-kind multimodal AI translator
Meta has released its new multimodal multilingual AI translator model called SeamlessM4T. This first-of-its-kind translator can translate and transcribe speech and text in up to 100…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Unbabel’s AI tool makes telepathic communication possible
Unbabel offers AI translation services to corporations but their new product is designed to let individuals communicate telepathically. Well, almost. The idea of using AI to…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
The New York Times may sue OpenAI over copyright claims
The New York Times is considering taking legal action against OpenAI over suspicions that it scraped its news content to train ChatGPT. OpenAI admits that it…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
AI is better at solving CAPTCHAs than you are
A new research paper shows that AI is faster and better than humans at solving CAPTCHAs. For nearly two decades CAPTCHAs have been used to protect…
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Microsoft to sell Databricks software in snub to OpenAI
The relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is looking increasingly strained as Microsoft plans new offerings on its Azure cloud computing platform. Microsoft is rumored to be…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read