“Authentic” is the Merriam-Webster word of the year, but why?
Merriam-Webster has selected “authentic” as their word of the year for 2023, explaining how it’s taken on new relevance with the rise of fake content, including…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
LLMS
System 2 Attention improves accuracy of LLM responses
Large Language Models (LLM) are often mislead by bias or irrelevant context in a prompt. Researchers at Meta have found a seemingly simple way to fix…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Microsoft joins the AI hardware market with a pair of custom chips
Microsoft has introduced its first pair of custom AI chips, signaling competition with industry leader Nvidia as well as Amazon and Google, which are pursuing similar…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Grok LLM details and how it stacks up against ChatGPT
Elon Musk announced the beta launch of xAI’s chatbot called Grok and initial stats are giving us an idea of how it stacks up against other…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Australian academics apologize for false AI-generated claims
A group of Australian academics found out the hard way that AI chatbots don’t always tell the truth and need to be fact-checked. The group of…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
LLMs can infer personal data from your chat interactions
Companies like OpenAI and Meta say their models don’t collect personal data but their AI is really good at inferring personal information from your chats or…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
New index shows AI models are becoming less transparent
Researchers from Stanford, MIT, and Princeton created an index to benchmark the transparency of AI companies and their models. The results weren’t great. The Foundation Model…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Baidu says Ernie Bot is now as good as GPT-4
Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled an upgraded version of its Ernie Bot chatbot at the Baidu World 2023 conference in Beijing. Baidu CEO Robin Li claimed…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
AI can diagnose schizophrenia by analyzing speech patterns
Researchers from the UCL Institute for Neurology and Oxford have developed AI models that can help mental health practitioners diagnose patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia affects approximately…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Snapchat faces UK data watchdog probe over My AI
Snapchat is under scrutiny by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over potential privacy risks to children posed by its AI chatbot. The ICO raised concerns…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read