AI model performance: Is it reasoning or simply reciting?
When ChatGPT gives you the right answer to your prompt, does it reason through the request or simply remember the answer from its training data? MIT’s…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
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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.
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NATO releases a revised AI strategy to combat threats
NATO has released a revised AI strategy to promote the responsible use of AI in defense applications and to combat threats from AI-enabled adversaries. NATO’s updated…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
DAI#47 – AI writes jokes, flags fibs, and beats bugs
Welcome to our weekly roundup of human-assembled AI news. This week AI got into writing jokes and spotting fibs. A Chinese real-time model beat GPT-4o. And…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
Anthropic Console and Claude get prompt and Artifacts upgrades
Anthropic added prompt generation, testing, and evaluation to the Anthropic Console and gave its Artifacts feature some exciting new functionality. If you considered a career as…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
SenseNova 5.5 – China’s first real-time LLM beats GPT-4o
Chinese AI developer, SenseTime, unveiled its upgraded multimodal SenseNova 5.5 model and claims it represents the state-of-the-art. The upgraded model comes just a few months after…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
AI lie detector beats humans and could be socially disruptive
Researchers from the University of Würzburg and the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development trained an AI model to detect lies and it could disrupt the way…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Kyutai’s AI voice assistant beats OpenAI to public release
We’re still waiting for OpenAI to release its GPT-4o voice assistant but a French non-profit AI research lab beat it to the punch with its release…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
AI jokes: New study finds ChatGPT is as funny as The Onion
Can AI be funny? A new study by psychology researchers from the University of Southern California tested ChatGPT’s comedic ability with surprising results. ChatGPT can write…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
DAI#46 – Skeleton key, exam cheats, and famous AI voices
Welcome to this week’s roundup of bio-generated AI news. This week AI got famous voices from beyond the grave. Your AI memes are driving up Google’s…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
ElevenLabs makes deals to use voices of famous dead celebs
ElevenLabs has signed deals that will soon have your next audiobook read to you by long-dead celebrities. ElevenLabs is pioneering research in text-to-speech, AI voice generation,…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read