Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model?
Claims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues
AI + ML30 Aug 2024 | 151
Machine Learning
The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty
Opinion The return of Windows Recall is more than a bad flashback
AI + ML27 Aug 2024 | 112
LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape
Opinion Automatic for the people? Don’t mind if we do
Software12 Aug 2024 | 87
Is AI going to pay its way? Wall Street wants tech world to show it the money
Kettle 2025 could be Peak Nvidia when reality finally kicks in
AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 32
The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI
Google adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts'
Science27 Jul 2024 | 93
AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output
Recursive training leads to nonsense, study finds
AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 140
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
Meta claims ‘world’s largest' open AI model with Llama 3.1 405B debut
Zuck says he wants to mimic Linux and go open source, kind of
AI + ML23 Jul 2024 | 11
Etched looks to challenge Nvidia with an ASIC purpose-built for transformer models
Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia's H100 in Llama 70B … assuming it's actually built
AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 6
Want to save the planet from AI? Chuck in an FPGA and ditch the matrix
Watts down, doc: Boffins find machine learning models can function with more modest power requirements
AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 35
Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started
Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story
AI + ML22 Jun 2024 | 6
Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots
Video Fast, funny, visionary, sure ... anything that knocks OpenAI down a peg will do
AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 11
Google DeepMind's latest model promises realistic audio for your AI-generated vids
Video Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video
AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 2
Mistral AI raises $644M, hits $6.2B in valuation
French firm has nearly tripled in value since beginning of the year
AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 2
Really? A sarcasm detector? Wow. You shouldn't have
Computers learning to spot sass – what could go wrong?
Bootnotes20 May 2024 | 41
Microsoft offers China-based engineers an option to relocate
Office could be decimated with around 800 offers reportedly made
Software17 May 2024 | 40
And it begins. OpenAI mulls NSFW AI model output
That's a new twist on open, then
AI + ML09 May 2024 | 29
ML suggests all that relaxing whale song might just be human-esque gossiping
Now this is our kind of click bait
AI + ML09 May 2024 | 14
Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable?
Gosh, here's us thinking recursion was a solved problem
AI + ML09 May 2024 | 63
AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism
Devotees were speaking to an entity who didn't exist – imagine that
Bootnotes03 May 2024 | 139
Anthropic goes after iPhone fans with Claude 3 chatbot app
Also adds a Teams plan that's still under development
AI + ML01 May 2024 | 4
Big Cloud is still making bank – Is this AI adoption, price rises, or what?
Kettle Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all?
AI + ML26 Apr 2024 | 4
Microsoft shrinks AI down to pocket size with Phi-3 Mini
Language model focused on reasoning fits on a smartphone and runs offline
AI + ML23 Apr 2024 | 11
Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO's exit
More like Instability AI, right kids?
AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 13
Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy
Interview Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders
AI + ML14 Apr 2024 | 61
Arm flexes silicon muscles to push generative AI at the edge
Ethos-U85 microNPU boasts 4x performance boost over previous gen
Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Developers are calling the shots on AI planning, judging by your experience
Reader Poll Results And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents
AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning
Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages
AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 10
CNCF boss talks 'irrational exuberance' in an AI-heavy Kubecon keynote
Updated Kubecon? More like Queuecon as Paris show's registration system experiences temporary borkage
Software22 Mar 2024 | 11
New York Times: OpenAI’s claim we 'hacked' its products both 'irrelevant' and 'false'
Media giant's counterfiling accuses AI darling of 'spin' in copyright infringement case
AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 3
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips
Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips
Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11
Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so
Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession
Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 78
Meta seeks ASIC designers for ML accelerators and datacenter SoCs
Appears to be struggling to find them, even in India, as it's re-posted job ads
On-Prem23 Feb 2024 | 14
Quilter's AI design service nabs $10M to make circuit board design easier
Claims what took weeks to do by hand, machine learning can do in hours
AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 2
IBM Japan and NTT think they can make datacenter aircon adjust to different workloads
They're measuring server exhaust temperatures to detect power consumption
AI + ML07 Feb 2024 | 17
Robots with a 'Berliner Schnauze' may appear more trustworthy to locals
Dialect study a mixed bag when it comes to droids speaking highbrow German
Bootnotes31 Jan 2024 | 22
What is Model Collapse and how to avoid it
Feature We chat to AI expert Ilia Shumailov about the pitfalls of using machines to train machines
Software26 Jan 2024 | 16
DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry
So this is the AI revolution
Bootnotes23 Jan 2024 | 48
Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized
If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher
PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2024 | 7
Daughter of George Carlin horrified someone cloned her dad with AI for hour special
Seven words you can't say – This won't backfire and ruin art forever
AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 38
EU lassos tech giants in bid to rein in the AI Wild West
Analysis Interpretation, debate, and judges set to decide how the rubber hits the road
AI + ML03 Jan 2024 | 3
Danish techies claim they can predict your next move (and your last)
Life's a vector, then you die
Science20 Dec 2023 | 29
Mere minority of orgs put GenAI in production after year of hype
Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment
AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 14
Exposed Hugging Face API tokens offered full access to Meta's Llama 2
Updated With more than 1,500 tokens exposed, research highlights importance of securing supply chains in AI and ML
Research04 Dec 2023 | 6
AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI
Re:Invent Also hedging its bets with a healthy dose of Nvidia chips too
Systems28 Nov 2023 | 2
Fake views for the win: Text-to-image models learn more efficiently with made-up data
Future neural nets will probably use a mix of AI-generated and real info
AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1
FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse
Sir, this is a Wendy's
AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 22
UK MoD braves the weather to train maritime AI capabilities
We will scan them on the beaches
AI + ML02 Nov 2023 | 18
AI luminaries call for urgent regulation to head off future threats, but Meta's brainbox boss disagrees
Suggest developers spend 'at least one-third of their R&D budget' on safety
AI + ML24 Oct 2023 | 18
SEC boss warns it's 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause financial crash
AI In Brief Plus Meta gets physical, moves bots in the house...
AI + ML23 Oct 2023 | 28
OpenAI warns folks over GPT-4 Vision's limits and flaws
AI In Brief Plus: Mistral emits uncensored model, Meta expands Llama 2's context window, Alexa drills into your voice
AI + ML02 Oct 2023 | 5
Getty delivers text-to-image service it says won't get you sued, may get you paid
Trained on its own image library that's clear of copyright complications
AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 16
Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI
Big Brother wants to watch your big data
AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 7
Nvidia just made a killing on AI – where is everyone else?
Comment It doesn't matter if your GPU is better at training if no one can get hold of them
AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 10
Hope for nerds! ChatGPT's still a below-average math student
Detection algorithms also fail to distinguish between answers from real people and large language models
AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 31
Meta lets Code Llama run riot under almost-open terms
Was this source-generating model used to bang out Threads in a week or something?
AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 4
Big Tech pumps $235M into AI model depot Hugging Face
Upstart now valued at $4B after Salesforce, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and pals dish out dosh
AI + ML24 Aug 2023 |
Judge snuffs man's quest to have AI-created art protected by copyright
'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' lost
AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 20
Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI
Tired? Drink coffee, says Starbucks. Bored? Try whiskey, says Jameson. Lazy? Why not drive, says Ford. Etc etc
AI + ML16 Aug 2023 | 13
So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans
We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords
Offbeat15 Aug 2023 | 78
DARPA tells AI world: Make a model that secures software, there's $25M in it for you
Black Hat If you're so smart, prove it by safeguarding our infrastructure
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 8
Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI
We hope the World Peace Day statement was not written by ChatGPT
Offbeat09 Aug 2023 | 56
TV and film extras fear generative AI will copy their faces and bodies to take their jobs
AI in brief Plus: Apple has spent $22.1B on research for generative AI, and Kickstarter introduces new AI policies
AI + ML07 Aug 2023 | 17
Biting the hand that feeds IT
