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Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. Hong Kong’s Education Bureau has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum for secondary school students, integrating AI instruction into the classroom and covering topics such as computer vision, …

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Summary ChatPDF is an innovative tool that makes interacting with PDFs as simple as having a conversation. By utilizing GPT 3.5, ChatPDF effectively serves as a chatbot for any PDF document, capable of answering your questions and even rewriting sections as needed. Whether you’re a student, a professional, or simply someone with an insatiable thirst …

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Summary European AI startup Mistral AI has caused a stir by securing 105 million euros in funding without even presenting a product. The company’s pitch paper, recently made available online, sheds some light on its ambitious plans. According to a strategic memo, Mistral intends to develop cutting-edge models that differ from the current mostly closed …

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Summary The attention of many AI-interested developers is currently focused on one particular GitHub repository: GPT Engineer. The GPT-4-based software is designed to automate much of the code-writing process according to the programmer’s needs. In addition to writers, programmers have long benefited from advances in chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google Bard. Microsoft has also …

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AI has become the top tech spending priority for businesses, with 47% allocating the largest budgets to AI, according to a CNBC survey. Cloud computing is the second-largest spending area at 21%. About two-thirds of respondents said their investments in AI are accelerating, while 53% said rising interest rates have led to a slowdown in …

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Summary At least 100,000 credentials of ChatGPT users were reportedly leaked to the darknet. OpenAI released a statement regarding the incident. Most of the affected users are from the US, France, Morocco, Indonesia, Pakistan and Brazil. The oldest data is said to date back to June 2022. ChatGPT was made publicly available in November 2022. …

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Summary Qualcomm demonstrated further progress in running generative AI models on smartphones at the annual IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. In February, Stable Diffusion was able to generate an image in less than 15 seconds on a smartphone running Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 system-on-a-chip (see news below). This time was …

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Summary In May, MosaicML released what was then one of the best open-source language models, and now the startup is following up with a bigger and more powerful version. After MPT-7B, MosaicML has released MPT-30B, its second major open-source language model. The new model is a 30-billion-parameter model that MosaicML claims surpasses the performance of …

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IEEE Spectrum compiled a scorecard summarizing the positions of 22 AI authorities on large language models leading to AGI and the risk of civilizational catastrophe caused by AGI. 8 experts believe that LLM can lead to AGI, and 4 believe that AGI could lead to doomsday. AI experts remain divided over the implications of large-scale …

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Summary Midjourney 5.2 is here, bringing a feature long requested by the community. “Zoom out” is Midjourney’s name for what other AI image generators usually call “outpainting”: The AI ​​enlarges an image it has already created. In the case of a portrait, for example, you can see more of the surroundings. In Midjourney, this is …

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