Summary Startup Anthropic is considered the strongest OpenAI competitor next to Google. Now it has raised another $450 million investment. The money comes from venture capitalist Spark Capital and includes Google, Salesforce, and Zoom. The latter recently announced AI applications for Zoom based on Anthropic’s language models, such as managing the Zoom contact center. According …
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Summary Previously available only through a web interface, Adobe Firefly is now integrated directly into Photoshop as “Generative Fill”. The idea is to bring AI to even more creative workflows. Adobe Firefly has only been available for about six weeks, joining other offerings such as DALL-E 2 and Midjourney. Until now, it could only be …
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Summary After Clippy and Cortana, now comes Copilot. The Windows Copilot AI assistant for Windows 11 is designed to make every user a “power user”. Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is coming to Windows 11 and is built right into Windows 11, just like Microsoft’s other AI pilots in Edge, Github, or Office. Users can access …
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Summary With LIMA, Meta’s AI researchers introduce a new language model that achieves GPT-4 and Bard level performance in test scenarios, albeit fine-tuned with relatively few examples. LIMA stands for “Less is More for Alignment,” and the name hints at the model’s function: It is intended to show that with an extensively pre-trained AI model, …
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Summary Pushed by OpenAI and Microsoft, Google is also laying the groundwork for a new AI-driven Internet. What role will human content play going forward? If there is a tipping point where people’s first call for information is to their chatbot instead of Google, then the content ecosystem on the web will change. Individual websites …
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Summary The open-source software DreamGPT aims to produce particularly creative results by making hallucinations of LLMs a feature. A common criticism of large language models is that they are not grounded in reality and can make things up. This poses dangers, such as mistakes in searches or news stories that go unnoticed because the language …
DreamGPT turns a weakness of large language models into a strength Read More »
Summary Companies are banning ChatGPT due to security concerns. Apple is only one of many. Tea Wall Street Journal has obtained internal documents showing that Apple has restricted the use of ChatGPT and Microsoft’s coding tool Github Copilot. The company is reportedly concerned that confidential information could be leaked through these tools. Bloomberg’s Apple reporter …
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Summary OpenAI begins rolling out its own ChatGPT app on iOS, including voice control via Whisper. OpenAI’s plans for its own ChatGPT app have been known for some time, and now the company is releasing the first version for iOS. The ChatGPT app is designed to synchronize conversations, be voice controlled, and bring the latest …
Summary Project Ring combines language and image models in an AI wearable that looks at the world through a camera and comments on it with an AI-generated voice. The simplest way to describe Project Ring is as a wearable Google Lens with voice controls. According to developer Mina Fahmi, the project aims to “demonstrate low-friction …
Summary Large language models in the form of chatbots are essentially a new computer interface. PrivateGPT shows how this can be applied to your private data. Large language models from companies like Microsoft or OpenAI can capture content in documents and make it “chattable”. That is, they can have a conversation about the content, explain …
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